Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Jacques Mieses.
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 5. Mieses vs Theodore Von Scheve, Monaco, 1904
[ Bh6+ ]
b) 
Mieses vs Oehquist, Nuremberg, 1895
[ Nxe5 ]
c) 
Mieses vs Leo Fleischmann, St Petersburg, 1909
[ a3 w/Bd2 ]
d) 
Mieses vs Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Ostende, 1907
[ Nd6+ ]
e) 
Mieses vs David Przepiorka, Frankfurt, 1930
[ Rxd7 ]
Mieses Puzzles, Part II. White to move and win except where noted.
a) 
Mieses vs Richter, Frankfurt, 1887
[ b8/N+ ]
b) 
Mieses vs Hermann Gottschall, Nuremberg, 1888
[ Rxe5 ]
c) 
White Mates in 7. Mieses vs Siegbert Tarrasch, Leipzig, 1888
[ Re7 ]
d) 
Mieses vs Siegbert Tarrasch, Nuremberg, 1888
[ Qd3+ w/Qd4+ ]
e) 
White Mates in 7. Mieses vs Fritz Alexander, Breslau, 1889
[ f3+ ]
Mieses Puzzles, Part III. White to move and win except where noted.
a) 
White Mates in 4. Mieses vs Joseph Blackburne, Hastings, 1895
[ Bc8+ w/Re7+ ]
b) 
White Mates in 4. Mieses vs Aldolf Albin, Monaco, 1903
[ Qe6+ ]
c) 
Mieses vs Amos Burn, Barmen, 1905
[ Nxf7+ ]
d) 
Mieses vs Leopold Lowy, Vienna, 1907
[ Rxb7+ ]
e) 
Mieses vs N Brody, Dusseldorf, 1908
[ Rh8+ w/f7+ & f8/N+ ]
f) 
Mieses vs Frank J Marshall, Berlin, 1908
[ Bxc8 w/Rc8+ Qf5+ & Bc5 ]
g) 
Mieses vs Simon Alapin, Vienna, 1908
[ Qf8+ w/Qxf7+ ]
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