"Tactics in the Queen's Gambit" by wtharvey.com



Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Tingjie Lei.
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 5.
Tingjie Lei vs Huanlu Xie, Hefei, 2011
2r2r2/2p1npk1/p2qpN1p/3P2p1/8/2Q1P1P1/PP3P1P/2RR2K1 w - - 1 0
[ Ne8+ Kg6 Qf6+ Kh5 Ng7+ ]

b)
White mates in 3.
Tingjie Lei vs Xueyi Li, Hefei, 2011
8/p4pkp/2r3n1/2Pp2QP/q5P1/4RPK1/P3R3/8 w - - 1 0
[ h6+ ]

c)
White mates in 3.
Tingjie Lei vs Bobby Cheng, Kuala Lumpur, 2011
5k2/p1QrR3/2p2Pr1/8/2P5/1P6/P6P/3qR2K w - - 1 0
[ Qc8+ if Rd8 Re8+ ]

d)
Tianlu Gu vs Tingjie Lei, Qingdao, 2013
3r1r1k/p3p1bp/2p3p1/2q5/4RPn1/2N1B3/PP2Q1PP/R5K1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Nxe3 if Rxe3 Bd4 ]

e)
Tingjie Lei vs Xue Zhao, Jiaxing, 2014
7r/p1kq4/1p1b1R2/2pQ1Ppp/2P5/8/PP4PP/2K5 w - - 1 0
[ Rf7 Be7 Qe5+ Kc6 Rxe7 ]

1a)
mate in 5
Tingjie Lei vs Huanlu Xie

Tingjie Lei Puzzles, Part II.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Bence Szabo vs Tingjie Lei, Graz, 2016
r5k1/pp5p/6p1/4rnb1/8/2R1N3/PP3KPP/3N3R b - - 0 1
[ ...Nxe3 Nxe3 Rf8+ Ke2 Rfe8 ]

b)
Black mates in 2.
Gyula Pap vs Tingjie Lei, Graz, 2016
3rB1k1/p1p3q1/1p5p/1P1p1Qp1/2b2n2/4RPP1/P1P4P/6K1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qa1+ ]

c)
Tingjie Lei vs Ying Zhu, Xinghua, 2017
5r2/pp6/2n1Rr1k/3p4/3q1pQ1/6P1/PP3P1P/4R1K1 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Rxf6+ if Qxf6 Re6 or if Rxf6 Re8 Rf7 Rg8 ]

d)
White mates in 3.
Tingjie Lei vs Phuong Luong, Chengdu, 2017
4rn1k/r3p2n/2pqP1pQ/p1N1p3/1pBP2P1/8/PP5R/1K1R4 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Rf1 ]

e)
White mates in 2.
Tingjie Lei vs Anastasia Bodnaruk, Riyadh, 2017
r4r1k/2Q1R3/3p1n1P/5PR1/Np3qp1/1P6/1KP5/8 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Rh7+ ]

2a)
Bence Szabo vs Tingjie Lei

Tingjie Lei Puzzles, Part III.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
White mates in 3.
Tingjie Lei vs Arturs Neiksans, Riga, 2017
6k1/3n3p/p1r1q1p1/1p4B1/2pQ2N1/7P/PP3PPK/8 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Nh6+ Kf8 2.Qh8+ ]

b)
Tingjie Lei vs Daniyyl Dvirnyy, Sevilla, 2018
3b1k2/p4p2/p1n3p1/5r1p/4N2P/1P3P2/P2RN1P1/5K2 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Rd6 ]

c)
Black mates in 3.
Valentina Gunina vs Tingjie Lei, Hengshui, 2019
r5k1/pbp2pp1/1p5p/1Q6/3Pnn1q/2P1NP2/PP4P1/3RR1K1 b - - 0 1
[ 1...Nh3+ if 2.gxh3 Qf2+ or if 2.Kh2 Nhf2+ ]

d)
Tingjie Lei vs Fernando Peralta, Gibraltar, 2019
5rk1/5p1p/rn2n1pP/q5P1/2pQN3/8/PPB5/1K1RR3 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Nf6+ Kh8 2.Rxe6 fxe6 3.Nd5+ ]

e)
Tingjie Lei vs Anna Ushenina, Hengshui, 2019
2r3k1/1b1r2p1/1P4Np/6n1/pN1p4/P2B3P/2R2PP1/6K1 w - - 1 0
[ 1.Rxc8+ Bxc8 2.Bc4+ Kh7 3.Nf8+ ]

3e)
Tingjie Lei vs Anna Ushenina


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