Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Sergey Smagin.
White to move and win except where noted.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your cursor from one bracket to the other.
a)
Smagin vs Anatoly Donchenko, Moscow, 1983
[ Nxe6 if fxe6 Qd4 ]
b)
White Mates in 2. Smagin vs Viktor Kupreichik, Minsk, 1985
[ Qh8+ ]
c)
Smagin vs Vladimir Raicevic, Moscow, 1986
[ Nf6+ w/exf6 & Qh4 ]
d)
Smagin vs Slobodan Bojkovic, Novi Sad, 1986
[ Qxd5+ ]
e)
White Mates in 4. Smagin vs Nikolay Monin, Pinsk, 1986
[ Rh6 ]
Smagin Puzzles, Part II. White to move and win.
a)
Smagin vs Jan Banas, Trnava, 1987
[ Qxf8+ w/Ne6+ ]
b)
Smagin vs Jan Plachetka, Trnava, 1987
[ Rxe6 Qxg5 (if Qxe6 Bc4 & Qxg6+ mates) Bxg5 & Rxg6+ ]
c)
Smagin vs Ilijas Subasic, Zenica, 1987
[ Rexe7 Bxe7 Rxe7 Qxe7 Qxd5+ & Qxa8 ]
d)
Smagin vs Tomislav Paunovic, Belgrade, 1988
[ Nd6 w/Nb5 ]
e)
Smagin vs Jens Kristiansen, Copenhagen, 1988
[ b4 ]
Smagin Puzzles, Part III. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
White Mates in 3. Smagin vs Henryk Dobosz, Naestved, 1988
[ Bg7+ ]
b)
Smagin vs Gerd Lorenz, Naestved, 1988
[ Rf6 ]
c)
Smagin vs Oleg Romanishin, Yerevan, 1988
[ Re6 w/Rd6 & Rc6 ]
d)
White Mates in 3. Smagin vs Jeremy Silman, Philadelphia, 1989
[ gxf7+ ]
e)
Smagin vs Bernd Stein, Copenhagen, 1990
[ Nd6+ if Rxd6 Rxf6+ Qxf6 Qxd6 ]
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