Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Vladimir Epishin.
White to move and win except where noted.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your cursor from one bracket to the other.
a)
Epishin vs Ekaterina Barkovskaja, Leningrad, 1985
r1bq2k1/p1r2pp1/n1pb1P1p/1p2N3/3PN3/P5P1/1P2Q1BP/1K1RR3 w - - 0 1
[ Nxc6 Rxc6 Nxd6 Rxd6 Qe8+ w/Bxa8 ]
b)
Epishin vs Raset Ziatdinov, Tashkent, 1986
1r2k3/8/3P2p1/2N2b1p/1p1R4/1p5P/1P3KP1/8 w - - 0 1
[ g4 ]
c)
Epishin vs Konstantin Aseev, Leningrad, 1987
5rk1/p4ppp/1p3q2/n2bQB2/8/P7/1B3PP1/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Qxf6 w/Re3 ]
d)
Epishin vs Gata Kamsky, Leningrad, 1987
5rk1/1p1rQ3/5pPR/2nq4/p7/8/PP4PP/3R3K w - - 0 1
[ Rh8+ w/g7+ ]
e)
Epishin vs Viatcheslav Osnos, Leningrad, 1987
3qr1k1/5ppp/rp3n2/n4N2/b2Bp3/P3P3/BQ3PPP/R1R3K1 w - - 0 1
[ Nh6+ gxh6 Bxf6 Qd6 Qe2 w/Qxa6 ]
Epishin Puzzles, Part II. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
Epishin vs Leonid Yudasin, Leningrad, 1987
4rbk1/pqPQ2np/5rp1/1pp1Np2/6P1/P1N4P/1P3P2/1R2R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Nd5 Rd6 Qf7+ Kh8 Nxg6+ ]
b)
Epishin vs Zivojin Ljubisavljevic, Belgrade, 1988
1k1r2nr/pp2ppbp/qn1p4/1NpP1p2/2P3P1/5P1R/PPBBQ3/1K1R4 w - - 0 1
[ f4 if Nd7 Ra3 Bb6 Ba5 ]
c)
Epishin vs Robert Seoev, Tallinn, 1988
r2qnrk1/1p2pp1p/4b2P/3n2BN/p5P1/P1P2P2/B3Q3/R3K2R w - - 0 1
[ Rd1 Qa5 Bxd5 Bxd5 Bxe7 ]
d)
Epishin vs Mikhail Ulibin, Tbilisi, 1989
2b3k1/p2r1pn1/2r1p1p1/1p2P1N1/1B4Pp/3P1R1P/P3K3/5R2 w - - 0 1
[ Rxf7 Rxf7 Rxf7 Rc2+ Kd1 (& Rf8#) ]
e)
Epishin vs Oliver Bewersdorff, Frankfurt, 1990
2r2rk1/3qppbp/p5p1/np1PPb2/3Q4/B4N1P/P4PP1/2R1RBK1 w - - 0 1
[ g4 if Bc2 Qd2 or if Rxc1 Rxc1 Bh6 Rc3 Bb1 Qb4 ]
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