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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Aleksandr Shneider.
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)
Aleksandr Shneider vs Igor Vainerman, Yalta, 1982
2r1n1k1/pbrn2p1/1p2qp1p/1P2p3/1QN1P3/P4P2/1B4PP/2RR1BK1 w - - 0 1
[ Ne3 Kh7 Bc4 ]
b)
Aleksandr Shneider vs Stanislav Savchenko, Zhitomir, 1986
r5k1/1pnr1bpp/2p1p3/p2nPp2/Pq3P2/1PN1BBP1/1Q1R3P/2R3K1 w - - 0 1
[ Nxd5 if Nxd5 Bc5 ]
c)
Aleksandr Shneider vs Branimir Certic, Belgrade, 1995
1rb5/ppN2nkp/8/8/8/4p3/PP2P1BP/5RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Ne8+ if Kf8 Nd6 or if Kg8 Bd5 ]
d)
Aleksandr Shneider vs Florian Jenni, Zurich, 2003
1n3rk1/r1ppbppp/q3p3/Nb1n4/pP1N1B2/P5P1/3QPPBP/R1R3K1 w - - 0 1
[ Bxd5 exd5 Qe3 if Bf6 Nxb5 ]
1d)
Aleksandr Shneider vs Florian Jenni
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