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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Johannes Zukertort.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.

Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.
Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.

a)
Johannes Zukertort vs Adolf Anderssen, Breslau, 1865
rnbk1r2/pp1p2bp/2p2n2/3N3Q/3q3B/8/PPP3PP/4RR1K w - - 0 1
[ Rxf6 if Bxf6 Bxf6+ ]

b)
White mates in 6.
Johannes Zukertort vs Adolf Anderssen, Breslau, 1865
r1b1kb1r/ppppn2p/n5q1/3NQ3/3PP3/8/PPP3PP/R1B2RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Rxf8+ if Kxf8 Bh6+ Qxh6 Rf1+ ]

c)
White mates in 6.
Johannes Zukertort vs Von Schutz, Berlin, 1869
5r1k/7p/3p1PpN/4p1P1/4P2P/1R6/5b2/7K w - - 0 1
[ Rb7 Ra8 Rg7 Rg8+ Rxg8 Nf7# ]

d)
Black mates in 4.
Samuel Rosenthal vs Johannes Zukertort, Paris, 1878
2k5/2pq2p1/P2pB1p1/4pn1r/4P1K1/1Q1PP1p1/PP3r2/R7 b - - 0 1
[ ...Nxe3+ Kxg3 Rg2+ Kf3 Rh3+ ]

e)
Mikhail Chigorin vs Johannes Zukertort, London, 1883
r5k1/pbp1R1pp/8/2K5/Q2N1r2/7q/PPP2P1P/R7 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qh5+ Kc4 Rxd4+ ]

f)
Johannes Zukertort vs Wright, Boston, 1884
1r1q3r/1ppbkpQp/p2p1p2/4nP2/2B1P3/8/PPP3PP/R1B2RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Bg5 if fxg5 f6+ ]

g)
Johannes Zukertort vs Limbeck, New York, 1884
r2q1rk1/ppb2pp1/3p1n1p/n2P1N2/2p5/3B4/PB1Q1PPP/R4RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Nxh6+ if Kh8 Nf5 ]

1c)
mate in 6
Johannes Zukertort vs Von Schutz

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