Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Peter Svidler.
White to move and win.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.
a)
Svidler vs Demis Hassapis, Oakham, 1992
[ Qa4 ]
b)
Svidler vs Alexander Chekaev, USSR, 1991
[ Bxe5 Nxe5 Qxe5 if bxc5 Qd6+ mates ]
c)
Svidler vs Igor Dmitriev, Novgorod, 1995
[ Qc1 ]
d)
Svidler vs Dragan Kostic, Oakham, 1990
[ b5 axb5 cxb5 if Bxb5 Qb3+ ]
e)
Svidler vs E Ros, Oviedo, 1992
[ Bg5 ]
Svidler Puzzles, Part II. White to move and win.
a)
Svidler vs Sergey Labutin, Leningrad, 1990
5rk1/pp3p2/4r2p/3R1p2/8/2Q3P1/qP3P1P/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
[ Ra5 ]
b)
Svidler vs Yuri Shulman, St Petersburg, 1994
4r2k/3q1npp/4N3/1p1pnP2/3Q4/2P4P/2P5/2B2R1K w - - 0 1
[ Bf4 if Qd6 Re1 ]
c)
Svidler vs Angelis Del Rio, Szeged, 1994
6k1/1p4pp/2qrnp2/3p4/1Q1B4/4NN1P/P4PPK/8 w - - 0 1
[ Nf5 if Rd7 Ne7+ ]
d)
Svidler vs Alon Greenfeld, Tilburg, 1994
r7/p3q1k1/2p5/6pr/3pN3/3B2Q1/PP6/5RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Nf6 ]
e)
Svidler vs Alonso Zapata, New York, 1995
3bkn1r/1b6/p1q1pp2/1p5p/7P/2N1BN2/PPP2QP1/1K1R4 w - - 0 1
[ Rxd8+ Kxd8 Nd4 if Qxg2 Qxf6+ ]
Svidler Puzzles, Part III. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
P Svidler vs L Van Wely, Wijk aan Zee, 2005
[ Nd5 ]
b)
Svidler vs Alexander Grischuk, Wijk aan Zee, 2005
[ d6 if Rd4 Be3 ]
c)
Svidler vs Alexey Korotylev, Moscow, 2004
[ Nxh6 w/g7+ & Rg2 ]
d)
Svidler vs Vladimir Chuchelov, France, 2004
[ Rxc6 if dxc6 Bxh6 if Ra1 Bd4 ]
e)
White Mates in 7. Svidler vs Konstantin Chernyshov, Voronezh, 2003
[ Qe7 Bf8 Qf6 Rh7 Rxh7 Kxh7 Rd7+ ]
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