King-pawn Opening Series



Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Parham Maghsoodloo.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.

Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.
Drag your cursor from one bracket to the other.

a)
Parham Maghsoodloo vs Mohammed Al-Sayed, Doha, 2016
1nr4r/b3kpp1/2Pn2p1/4p1P1/1B6/3B3P/1P2N3/1KR4R w - - 1 0
[ c7 Nd7 Ba6 ]

b)
White mates in 5.
Parham Maghsoodloo vs Sergei Tiviakov, Anzali Free Zone, 2019
1r4k1/2q2pn1/3bpBp1/2prn1P1/1p4Q1/4PN2/P2PNPK1/1R5R w - - 1 0
[ Rh8+ Kxh8 Qh4+ Kg8 Qh6 ]

c)
Parham Maghsoodloo vs Nils Grandelius, Astana, 2019
6q1/7p/1r1NbP1k/n6P/1p1pN3/1P1P2Q1/8/6K1 w - - 1 0
[ Nf5+ if Bxf5 Qxg8 or if Kxh5 Ng7+ ]

d)
G Akash vs Parham Maghsoodloo, Bhubaneswar, 2016
6k1/1pp2p2/p1n5/P3NR2/5Rpq/1PP5/6P1/6K1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qe1+ Rf1 Qe3+ ]

1d)
G Akash vs Parham Maghsoodloo

Parham Maghsoodloo Puzzles, Part II.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Stefan Pogosyan vs Parham Maghsoodloo, Voronezh, 2018
r2qr1k1/1ppbppbp/1n4p1/p2P4/1n6/P1N1PNPP/1P3PB1/R1BQR1K1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Bxc3 bxc3 Ba4 Qd2 Nc2 ]

b)
Hrant Melkumyan vs Parham Maghsoodloo, St. Petersburg, 2018
3rk2r/4bppp/pq2b3/1p2P3/2pnQ1B1/P1N3B1/1P3PPP/R4RK1 b k - 0 1
[ ...Nb3 Rad1 Nd2 ]

c)
Black mates in 4.
Dinara Saduakassova vs Parham Maghsoodloo, Wijk aan Zee, 2019
8/1P3pN1/2B4p/4p1kP/4P2q/1bPn2p1/6P1/Q5K1 b - - 0 1
[ 1...Nf4 if 2.Qa7 Qh2+ ]

d)
Parham Maghsoodloo vs Nils Grandelius, Astana, 2019
6q1/7p/1r1NbP1k/n6P/1p1pN3/1P1P2Q1/8/6K1 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Nf5+ if 1...Kxh5 2.Ng7+ ]

2a)
Stefan Pogosyan vs Parham Maghsoodloo


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