Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Petar Trifunovic.
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)
Trifunovic vs Vasilje Tomovic, Belgrade, 1935
r5k1/p1p2ppp/2r2q2/8/4Q3/2b1B1P1/P3PP1P/1R3RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Rfc1 if Rd8 Bg5 ]

b)
White Mates in 3. Trifunovic vs Fritzis Apsheniek, Stockholm, 1937
r6r/pp1Q2pp/2p4k/4R3/5P2/2q5/P1P3PP/R5K1 w - - 0 1
[ Rh5+ ]

c)
Trifunovic vs Mladen Subaric, Novi Sad, 1945
1r3rk1/1p1qb1p1/p3pp1p/3n4/3B4/6Q1/PPP1BPPP/R2R2K1 w - - 0 1
[ c4 Bd6 Qf3 Ne7 Bc5 ]

d)
Trifunovic vs Svetozar Gligoric, Ljubljana, 1947
r3kn2/2R5/4p3/p4pP1/P1B2P2/8/5K2/8 w - - 0 1
[ Bb5+ Kd8 Rf7 Ng6 Rf6 ]

e)
Trifunovic vs Borislav Tot, Sarajevo, 1951
r2b1r1k/p1q3p1/2bp2Pp/2p1pP1Q/2p1P3/4BR2/PP4BP/2R3K1 w - - 0 1
[ Bxh6 gxh6 Qxh6+ Kg8 g7 ]

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