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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Alireza Firouzja.
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 4.
Alireza Firouzja vs Giga Kuparadze, Batumi, 2018
r3k1n1/1p4QR/p3q1p1/4pb2/4N3/2P2P2/PP3P2/2K5 w - - 1 0
[ Nd6+ Qxd6 Qf7+ ]
b)
White mates in 6.
Alireza Firouzja vs Holger Niese, Gmund am Tegernsee, 2018
3r4/p2kbQ2/1p6/3pP3/7r/qP2B1N1/P5PP/2R3K1 w - - 1 0
[ Qf5+ Ke8 Qg6+ Kf8 Rf1+ ]
c)
H Ettehadi vs Alireza Firouzja, Tabriz, 2017
r4rk1/pb5p/1pnq2p1/2p5/3bPBB1/P2P1Q2/1P4PP/R2N1R1K b - - 0 1
[ ...Be5 g3 g5 if Bxe5 Nxe5 ]
d)
Black mates in 5.
Mahdi Gholami Orimi vs Alireza Firouzja, Bushehr, 2019
6k1/6n1/3q4/4p1N1/1R5Q/pP1b2PP/P4rBK/2r5 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxg2+ Kxg2 Bf1+ Kf3 Qd3+ ]
a)
Black mates in 3.
Alisher Suleymenov vs Alireza Firouzja, Reykjavik, 2019
8/6k1/7p/6rP/2P1Nr2/pP1B1n1b/P4R2/2R4K b - - 0 1
[ 1...Bg2+ 2.Rxg2 Rh4+ ]
1b)
mate in 6
Alireza Firouzja vs Holger Niese
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