Chess Puzzles by GMs Blog

Tryfon Gavriel (Kingscrusher) - English CM  (1971-) 35 rated puzzles from his games A puzzle's rating is determined by the strength of its solvers. CM Kingscrusher vs agnivo2008 (2344) pin & double attack 1.Rxe8 Rxe8 2.Qxd3 Bxc3 3.Qd7 CM Kingscrusher vs beginner012 (2416) pin & double attack 1.Qh7 if Ke8 2.Bxe4 fxe4 3.Rxe4 or if Kf6 2.Rh6 mates CM Kingscrusher vs haridas (2603) pin & promotion 1.hxg6 Re2 2.g7 if Re8 3.Rh1 Rg8 4.Rh8

 Chess Olympiad 1986 Dubai 107 puzzles from the event Black mates in 3. Markus Thole vs Christine Jensen Clearance Black mates in 4. Rubens Filguth vs Murray Chandler Decoy Black mates in 6. J Lamothe vs N E Zalm Double attack

Caro-Kann (B10):  1.e4 c6 25 puzzles from the opening Everaldo Matsuura vs Joao Xavier Parnaiba, 1995 fork White mates in 6. Vojtech Slovik vs Milan Rezak Slovakia, 1999 smothered mate Trond Gabrielsen vs Patrik Lyrberg Gausdal, 1994 double attack

 Chess Olympiad 1988 Salonika 95 puzzles from the event White mates in 2. Carsten Hoi vs Boris Gulko decoy Black mates in 3. Luisa Cuevas-Rodriguez Ma  vs Nina Hoiberg entrapment White mates in 5. Graham Morrison vs Vladimir Kalinin pin

 Chess Olympiad 1990 Novi Sad 146 puzzles from the event mate in 3 Khalid Al-Awadhi vs V Santamaria decoy mate in 4 Katsumi Sasaki vs I Konate decoy Luba Kristol vs Yudania Hernandez zwischenzug

 Gabriel Schwartzman - US GM (1976-) 9 puzzles from his games White mates in 5. Gabriel Schwartzman vs Joerg Bauer Hallein, 1988 pin White mates in 3. Gabriel Schwartzman vs Robin Cunningham New York, 1996 entrapment White mates in 5. Gabriel Schwartzman vs David Vest Las Vegas, 1997 discovered attack