Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Konstantin Lerner.
White to move and win except where noted.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.
a)
Lerner vs G Miniboeck, Vienna, 1994
[ Qh6+ Ke8 Qf4 ]
b)
Lerner vs A Barsov, Cappelle la Grande, 1996
[ Re7 if Qd8 Qe5 ]
c)
Lerner vs Sergey Dolmatov, Kutaissi, 1978
[ Bxe7 Qxe7 Nxd5 ]
d)
Lerner vs Erich Lehmann, Kiev, 1978
[ Bf5 Qxf5 Qe7 ]
e)
Lerner vs Smbat Lputian, Beltsy, 1979
[ Ne3 Qc5 Nd5 ]
Lerner Puzzles, Part II. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
Lerner vs Nukhim Rashkovsky, USSR, 1976
[ Rxb5 Qxb5 Bb4 ]
b)
Lerner vs Sergey Makarichev, Frunze, 1979
[ Bh6 ]
c)
Lerner vs Maya Chiburdanidze, Tashkent, 1980
[ Rxb6 if Qxb6 Qe7 & Bxg6 or if axb6 Qf6 ]
d)
Lerner vs Andrei Kharitonov, Beltsy, 1981
[ Nf4 w/Ng6+ ]
e)
White Mates in 9. Lerner vs Sergey Gorelov, Ivano-Frankovsk, 1982
[ Nf6+ Kf8 Nd7+ Kg8 Nxe5 Kh7 Rb8 ]
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