See 3 or 4 moves ahead
Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Sarin Nihal.
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) 
Sarin Nihal vs Emma Miklasova, Maribor, 2012
r2r2k1/pp2qppp/3pbn2/2n5/4P3/BN6/P1P2PPP/R2QRBK1 w - - 1 0
[ e5 if dxe5 Bxc5 ]
b) 
Sarin Nihal vs Kei Beauduin, Al-Ain, 2013
r4rk1/pbqn1pp1/1p1b1n1p/2pp4/3P4/2NBPNB1/PPQ2PPP/3R1RK1 w - - 1 0
[ Nb5 ]
c) 
Benediktas Vilkys vs Sarin Nihal, Klaipeda, 2013
r2q1r1k/p3bppn/2p1b2p/3p4/6P1/1PNB1QBP/P1P2P2/R4RK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Ng5 Qg2 Bf6 ]
d) 
White mates in 4.
Sarin Nihal vs Nikolay Konovalov, Moscow, 2017
5k2/3n1p2/8/2p2N1p/2q5/P3Q2P/6PK/b7 w - - 1 0
[ Qe7+ Kg8 Qg5+ Kh7 Qh6+ ]
1c) 
Benediktas Vilkys vs Sarin Nihal
Sarin Nihal puzzles, pt. ii.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a) 
Sarin Nihal vs Ramazan Zhalmakhanov, Ahmedabad, 2017
2r5/2r1kpp1/p3p3/3n3p/1PN5/P5P1/2R2P1P/2R1K3 w - - 1 0
[ Nb6 ]
b) 
Pierluigi Piscopo vs Sarin Nihal, Pardubice, 2017
3r1rk1/5ppp/2n1p3/1RNbP3/8/P2P1N2/6PP/4R1K1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Bxf3 gxf3 Nd4 Rb4 Nxf3+ ]
c) 
Sarin Nihal vs Aleksandr Shimanov, Moscow, 2019
5r2/pp3kp1/4pp1r/P2p4/3Pq2P/2P3P1/1P1Q1R1K/5R2 w - - 1 0
[ Qxh6 gxh6 Rxf6+ Ke8 Rxf8+ ]
d) 
Darwin Laylo vs Sarin Nihal, Xingtai, 2019
r1b4r/pp2kppp/5n2/1Nn1p3/2Pp4/P3P3/1P3PPP/R1B1KB1R b KQ - 0 1
[ ...Nb3 Rb1 Bf5 ]
2b) 
Pierluigi Piscopo vs Sarin Nihal
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