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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Samuel Sevian.
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)
Samuel Sevian vs Roman Yankovsky, Los Angeles, 2012
3rk2r/5pp1/p2p1b1p/qp1NpP2/n3P3/3Q4/1PP4P/1K1R2R1 w k - 1 0
[ b4 if Nc5 Qc3 Qa4 Nb6 ]

b)
Samuel Sevian vs Leonid Kritz, Richardson, 2015
r6r/ppq2kb1/4p2p/2np1Np1/5p2/5P2/PPP1QBPP/4RRK1 w - - 1 0
[ Nxg7 Kxg7 Bd4+ ]

c)
White mates in 4.
Samuel Sevian vs Benjamin Finegold, Saint Louis, 2014
2rq3Q/1p1b1kP1/p2p3R/3N4/4P3/1P6/1PP2r2/2K5 w - - 1 0
[ g8/Q+ Qxg8 Rf6+ Rxf6 Qxf6+ ]

d)
Tegshsuren Enhbat vs Samuel Sevian, Rockville, 2013
7r/6p1/P3pk1q/1p3p2/1P1P4/R4QPr/4P3/5RK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rh1+ Kf2 Rxf1+ Kxf1 Qc1+ ]

e)
Samuel Sevian vs Alexandre Kretchetov, Philadelphia, 2018
3q2k1/1p5p/2p1bpp1/p3p3/P3Pn2/1nP1BN1P/1PB2PP1/5QK1 w - - 1 0
[ 1.c4 if Nd4 Nxd4 ]

f)
Black mates in 3.
Ray Robson vs Samuel Sevian, Saint Louis, 2019
5rk1/Q1p3pp/2pb4/3n4/2NP3B/P2q3P/1r3PK1/R3R1N1 b - - 0 1
[ 1...Rfxf2+ 2.Bxf2 Qg3+ ]

1d)
Tegshsuren Enhbat vs Samuel Sevian


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