See 3 or 4 moves ahead
Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Jinshi Bai.
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 7.
Jinshi Bai vs Murad Nuri, Kocaeli, 2013
r2q1n2/1p1b4/p2p1p1k/2pPrP1p/2P4Q/P5RP/1PB3P1/5RK1 w - - 1 0
[ Qxh5+ Kxh5 Bd1+ Kh6 Rf4 ]
b) 
Jinshi Bai vs V Lozhnikov, Kocaeli, 2013
7k/pp4R1/2p4p/3n1N2/1n2N3/4r3/PP4PP/5K2 w - - 1 0
[ Ned6 ]
c) 
Jinshi Bai vs Nino Maisuradze, Hampstead, 2014
1r5r/pp1k1ppp/2n1pq2/1Q6/8/5NP1/PP2PPBP/R5K1 w - - 1 0
[ Ne5+ if Qxe5 Bxc6+ ]
d) 
Jinshi Bai vs Romuald Mainka, Germany, 2016
1rb5/Qpb2pk1/p3p2p/6p1/1P6/P2N1qP1/5P1P/3R1BK1 w - - 1 0
[ Rc1 if Bd6 Qd4+ or if b6 Bg2 Qxd3 Qxc7 ]
e) 
Jinshi Bai vs Bilel Bellahcene, Basel, 2017
3r2k1/1b3ppp/1p1q4/3p4/1Q1R4/r5P1/4PPBP/2R3K1 w - - 1 0
[ Rxd5 if Qxb4 Rxd8+ Qf8 Rxf8+ Kxf8 Bxb7 or if Bxd5 Qxd6 ]
1a) 
mate in 7
Jinshi Bai vs Murad Nuri
Jinshi Bai Puzzles, Part II.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a) 
White mates in 5.
Jinshi Bai vs Nikola Nikolovski, Tarvisio, 2017
rq5Q/p2ppk2/bp2np2/3NP3/1PP5/P7/4r3/2RK1R2 w - - 1 0
[ Rxf6+ exf6 Qxf6+ Kg8 Ne7+ ]
b) 
Jinshi Bai vs Markus Watzlawek, Neustadt a.d. Weinstrasse, 2018
1k3r2/ppq5/2n1R3/2p3rp/8/2P3P1/PPQ2PP1/4R1K1 w - - 1 0
[ Re8+ Rxe8 Rxe8+ Nd8 Qd2 ]
c) 
Jinshi Bai vs Nima Javanbakht, Hamedan, 2018
4rrk1/pb3qpp/1p1Rp3/2p1Q3/2P5/P1P2P2/2B3PP/3R2K1 w - - 1 0
[ Rd7 if Re7 Qc7 ]
d) 
Jinshi Bai vs Harshit Raja, Gebze, 2018
1r1r2k1/pp1b1ppp/4p3/N1bn4/3n4/2N3P1/PP1BPPBP/R2R2K1 w - - 1 0
[ Bxd5 exd5 Bf4 ]
e) 
Antonios Pavlidis vs Jinshi Bai, Kocaeli, 2013
1r4k1/5ppp/2pR1n2/p4P2/P2N4/2n5/2B1rPPP/5RK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rd2 Rxc6 Nfd5 if Rc4 Rxd4 ]
f) 
Qi Chen vs Jinshi Bai, Tianjin, 2018
3rr1k1/5p2/p5p1/2Pb3p/P2R4/1P4qP/2B2RP1/3Q2K1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Bxg2 if Rxg2 Re1+ mates or if Rxd8 Bc6+ Kf1 Qxh3+ ]
g) 
Black mates in 3.
D Gukesh vs Jinshi Bai, Shanghai, 2019
2k1r3/pb1R3p/3B2p1/1p5q/3Q4/2P2PPP/P3r3/R5K1 b - - 0 1
[ 1...Rg2+ 2.Kxg2 Qxf3+ ]
2b) 
Jinshi Bai vs Markus Watzlawek
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