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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Luis Palau.
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) 
Luis Palau vs Benito Villegas, Montevideo, 1925
3r4/p4pkp/1p2q3/3p2p1/3Rr3/1P3QPP/P4PK1/3R4 w - - 1 0
[ Rxe4 if dxe4 Qc3+ ]
b) 
Black mates in 6.
Rodolfo De Witt vs Luis Palau, Argentina, 1931
2r4r/pk5p/bp3b2/B2p4/q2P4/1N2PPQ1/PKN4P/3R3R b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxc2+ Kxc2 Qxa2+ Kc3 Rc8+ ]
c) 
Luis Palau vs Jacobo Bolbochan, Buenos Aires, 1935
r1b1r1k1/pp3pp1/1bq1pn1p/8/4P3/3B1N2/PPQN1PPP/2R2RK1 w - - 1 0
[ Qb3 if Qd7 or Bc5 Bb5 ]
d) 
Black mates in 4.
Rafael Bensadon vs Luis Palau, Argentina, 1938
2rr2k1/p4ppp/Qp1Pp3/8/3R4/1P1K4/Pq6/3R4 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rc3+ Ke4 Qg2+ Ke5 Re3+ ]
e) 
Voyin Lalic vs Luis Palau, Argentina, 1938
7k/6p1/4Q2p/4b3/2pPq3/1nP3P1/7P/5RK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Bxd4+ ]
1d) 
mate in 4
Rafael Bensadon vs Luis Palau
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