"Chess Olympiads" by wtharvey.com
Here are some chess puzzles from the games of the Prague 1931 Chess Olympiad.
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 8.
Savielly Tartakower vs Otto Zimmermann, Prague, 1931
q4r1k/5p1p/1n3Np1/2R5/8/3Q2P1/1r3P1P/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
[ Rh5 if Kg7 Rxh7+ Kxf6 Qd6+ ]
b)
Ojvind Larsen vs Valentin Marin y Llovet, Prague, 1931
5bk1/1b1n3p/pn1q1pp1/1p2p3/4P1NN/1P5P/PB1Q1PP1/1B5K w - - 0 1
[ Nh6+ if Kg7 N4f5+ or if Bxh6 Qxd6 ]
c)
Daniel Noteboom vs Aristide Gromer, Prague, 1931
4rr2/1b3p1k/p1R2Pp1/1p3R1p/4q3/PB5P/1P1Q2P1/7K w - - 0 1
[ Rxh5+ if gxh5 Bc2 or if Kg8 Qh6 ]
d)
Karel Opocensky vs Massimiliano Romi, Prague, 1931
r3r1k1/pb1n1pp1/1q3n1p/1B1p4/3N3B/Q3P3/P4PPP/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1
[ Bxf6 if Qxf6 Bxd7 Qxd4 0-0 or if Nxf6 Bxe8 ]
e)
Vasja Pirc vs Hermann Steiner, Prague, 1931
r2qr1k1/1b3pp1/p3pn1p/1p2N3/7B/P1N1P3/1PQ2PPP/1B4K1 w - - 0 1
[ Bxf6 if Qxf6 Qh7+ Kf8 Nd7+ or if gxf6 Qh7+ mates ]
1a)
mate in 8
Savielly Tartakower vs Otto Zimmermann
Prague 1931 Chess Olympiad Puzzles, Part II.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Ejnar Andersen vs Mir Sultan Khan, Prague, 1931
5rk1/pbp3pp/1p2R3/2b2N2/2P4r/1P2B3/P5PP/5R1K b - - 0 1
[ ...Rg4 if Rf2 Rxf5 ]
b)
Marcel Duchamp vs Paulin Frydman, Prague, 1931
2r2rk1/pb3ppp/1p2p3/2q5/2R1P3/P1Q2PP1/1P2N2P/1KR5 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qxc4 Qxc4 Rxc4 Rxc4 Ba6 if Rc2 Bd3 ]
c)
Movsa Feigin vs Walter Michel, Prague, 1931
4r1k1/1p3pp1/2bn2rp/P2N4/4P3/3B2qP/6P1/3RR1QK b - - 0 1
[ ...Bxd5 if exd5 Rxe1 Rxe1 Qxd3 ]
d)
Frank Marshall vs Lajos Steiner, Prague, 1931
r2r2k1/ppBn1ppb/7p/q1pP4/P2n4/2N3Q1/1P2BPPP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qxc3 if bxc3 Nxe2+ ]
e)
Daniel Noteboom vs Gosta Stoltz, Prague, 1931
8/5ppk/1R2b2p/4r3/1p6/4P2P/1P4P1/r2N1RK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Bc4 if Re1 Rd5 ]
2b)
Marcel Duchamp vs Paulin Frydman
Prague 1931 Chess Olympiad Puzzles, Part III.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Gideon Stahlberg vs Alexander Alekhine, Prague, 1931
6rk/pp4rp/2p1b3/3pP2q/P2P1p2/2P1n3/R4QPP/R3NBK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Ng4 if Qxf4 Rf7 ]
b)
Milan Vidmar Sr vs Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente, Prague, 1931
r3rbk1/pQ4pp/1p2pp1q/4N2n/3PP3/5PB1/P3K1PP/1RR5 w - - 0 1
[ Qf7+ Kh8 Qxe8 Rxe8 Nf7+ ]
c)
William Winter vs Karoly Sterk, Prague, 1931
5r2/p1r2Nkp/1pp1qnp1/4p3/P2P4/2P2R2/3Q2PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Qh6+ Kg8 Rxf6 if Rcxf7 Qxf8+ ]
3b)
Milan Vidmar Sr vs Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente
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