Gambit puzzles by wtharvey.com



Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Shiqun Ni.
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)
White mates in 4.
Shiqun Ni vs Zhuoling Li, Hefei, 2011
5k2/p3Rb1p/1ppq2p1/2p2pB1/8/b1PP4/P4PPP/4Q1K1 w - - 1 0
[ Bh6+ Kg8 Re8+ ]

b)
White mates in 3.
Shiqun Ni vs Valentina Gunina, Teheran, 2017
1b5r/p4ppp/1p2k1b1/3R4/2B5/Q3B2P/PP3PPq/R4K2 w - - 1 0
[ Re5+ if Kxe5 Qe7+ Kf5 g4# or if Kd7 Qe7+ ]

c)
Uuganbayar Lkhamsuren vs Shiqun Ni, Zaozhuang, 2012
8/1p3kb1/p1rp1p2/2nN2p1/P1P4p/1PP1R2P/1K3RPB/4r3 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxe3 Nxe3 Nd3+ ]

d)
Hulkar Tohirjanova vs Shiqun Ni, Sharjah, 2014
rn2r1k1/pp3ppp/3P1q2/8/4n1Q1/1N6/PP2B1PP/RN1K1R2 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qxf1+ Bxf1 Nf2+ ]

e)
Shiqun Ni vs Jue Wang, China, 2017
3q2k1/4bp1p/b2ppp2/4n3/3NN2Q/2P2P2/1rB3PP/4R1K1 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Ng5 if 1...fxg5 2.Qxh7+ mates or if 1...Kf8 2.Qxh7 Ke8 3.Ba4+ ]

1d)
Hulkar Tohirjanova vs Shiqun Ni


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