Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Uwe Boensch. White to move and win except where noted.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.
Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.
a) 
White Mates in 6. Boensch vs Sergey Smagin, corr. DDR, 1986
[ Nh6+ Kh8 Qxf6+ Qg7 d5 ]
b) 
Boensch vs Z Bator, Lodz, 1979
[ Nxd4 ]
c) 
Boensch vs Milorad Knezevic, Keszthely, 1981
[ Ree6 (Ref6+ mates) ]
d) 
Boensch vs Wlodzimierz Schmidt, Warsaw, 1983
[ Rc7 ]
e) 
Boensch vs Jens Maiwald, Budapest, 1996
[ Ng5+ if hxg5 Qh5+ mates in 3 ]
Boensch Puzzles, Part II. Black to move and win except where noted.
a) 
S Psaras vs Boensch, Ano Liosia, 1995
[ ...Nd3+ Bxd3 Bxd4 ]
b) 
Wolfgang Uhlmann vs Boensch, Halle, 1976
[ ...Rc1 Rxc1 Bxd4 ]
c) 
Peter Hesse vs Boensch, Leipzig, 1980
[ ...Bb3 ]
d) 
Matthey vs Boensch, DDR-CH, 1983
[ ...Qxh2 Rxh2 Re1 ]
e) 
Christian Sandor vs Boensch, Germany, 1995
[ ...Qxg2+ Qxg2 Rxg2+ Kxg2 Bd5+ ]
f) 
Black Mates in 7. S Siebrecht vs Boensch, Binz GER-CH, 1995
[ ...Qh3+ Kg1 Rxd4 ]
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