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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Andrew Soltis.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.

Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.
Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.

a)
Black mates in 9.
Frode Fihl-Jensen vs Andrew Soltis, Ybbs, 1968
r5k1/ppp1n3/3p2pp/3P3n/1PPb1p2/5q2/P1QB1N1P/4RRK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qg4+ Kh1 Ng3+ hxg3 Qf3+ if Kg1 Qxg3+ Kh1 f3 or if Kh2 Qxg3+ Kh1 f3 ]

b)
White mates in 6.
Andrew Soltis vs Karlheinz Maeder, Dresden, 1969
5rk1/2q2p1p/p2p1Qp1/4pP2/4b3/1B6/PPP4P/2K3R1 w - - 0 1
[ Rxg6+ hxg6 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qh6+ Kg8 f6 ]

c)
White mates in 5.
Andrew Soltis vs George Botterill, Graz, 1972
r6r/pp1qp3/2np3k/3Q2pp/4P3/1B6/PPP2PP1/2KR3R w - - 0 1
[ Rxh5+ Kxh5 Qf7+ Kg4 Be6+ ]

d)
Black mates in 7.
Roberto Kaimo vs Andrew Soltis, New York, 1977
7k/8/6p1/1p3n2/1N1b1p2/1P5P/P3RPPK/2r5 b - - 0 1
[ ...Ng3 if fxg3 Bg1+ Kh1 Bf2+ ]

e)
White mates in 3.
Andrew Soltis vs Miguel Quinteros, Lone Pine, 1979
5qk1/1p4b1/p1p2pQn/3p1N2/3P2P1/1PP2PK1/1P2r3/7R w - - 0 1
[ Nxh6+ ]

1c)
mate in 5
Andrew Soltis vs George Botterill

Andrew Soltis Puzzles, Part II.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Andrew Soltis vs Dmitry Gurevich, Lone Pine, 1981
r1b2rk1/4bppp/p1qpp3/6PQ/3BP3/1Pp5/PP3P1P/2KR2R1 w - - 0 1
[ Qh6 if e5 Bxe5 or if f6 gxf6 ]

b)
Tibor Weinberger vs Andrew Soltis, Pasadena, 1983
3r3k/1p4b1/3p2P1/pNpPpQ2/2P3Bq/1P2Rp1P/P4n1K/8 b - - 0 1
[ ...Nxg4+ Qxg4 Qf2+ ]

c)
White mates in 4.
Andrew Soltis vs Alexander Shabalov, New York, 1992
5rk1/R1p2rpp/4Q3/8/3P2nq/2P3N1/1P4PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Qxf7+ Rxf7 Ra8+ ]

d)
Andrew Soltis vs Nenad Vulicevic, New York, 1992
r3kb1r/1R1bpppp/p1np4/q7/B3n3/2N1B3/P1P1NPPP/3QK2R w Kkq - 0 1
[ Qd5 if Qxd5 Nxd5 if Rc8 Nb6 or if 0-0-0 Bxc6 mates ]

e)
Timothy Taylor vs Andrew Soltis, Chicago, 1992
8/8/p7/Bpp1nk2/8/1PK1P3/P1R4r/8 b - - 0 1
[ ...b4+ if Kb2 Nd3+ mates ]

f)
Andrew Soltis vs Charles Van Buskirk, Reno, 1994
7k/1p2qrnp/4p3/pN1pr3/P7/6R1/1PP3QP/6RK w - - 0 1
[ Nd6 if Qxd6 Rxg7 mates ]

2b)
Tibor Weinberger vs Andrew Soltis


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