Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Aleksandr Shneider.
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)
Shneider vs Boris Itkis, Pavlodar, 1982
[ Rxh6 if Nxh6 Rxg5+ mates ]
b)
Shneider vs Igor Novikov, Yalta, 1982
[ g6 ]
c)
Shneider vs Igor Vainerman, Yalta, 1982
[ Ne3 w/Bc4 ]
d)
Shneider vs Stanislav Savchenko, Zhitomir, 1986
[ Nxd5 if Rxd5 Rxd5 & Bc5 ]
e)
Shneider vs Bogdan Gossic, Budapest, 1989
[ Qc3 w/Re1 ]
Shneider Puzzles, Part II. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
Shneider vs Semon Palatnik, Kherson, 1989
[ Bxg7 if Nxg7 Nd5+ ]
b)
Shneider vs Jukka Pakkanen, Jyvaskyla, 1991
[ Qh5 if Ne7 Rxe7 Rxe7 Rc8+ ]
c)
Shneider vs Anatoli Shvedchikov, Moscow, 1992
[ Rf1 ]
d)
Shneider vs Alexander Cherniaev, St Petersburg, 1993
[ f5 if Qd7 e6 or if Qe7 f6 ]
e)
White Mates in 9. Shneider vs Evgenij Piankov, Alushta, 1994
[ Bf7 h6 Bxh6 Bxh6 Qxh6+ Qxh6 Rxh6+ Kg7 Rg6+ Kh7 Rb3 ]
Shneider Puzzles, Part III. White to move and win.
a)
Shneider vs Branimir Certic, Belgrade, 1995
[ Ne8+ if Kf8 Nd6 or if Kg8 Bd5 ]
b)
Shneider vs Marc Leski, Bastia, 1997
[ Nd5 w/Nc7 ]
c)
Shneider vs Viorel Iordachescu, Enakievo, 1997
[ Qxb3 w/Bxe5+ ]
d)
Shneider vs Robert Kuczynski, Koszalin, 1999
[ Ne5 if Bxd5 Nf7+ Qxf7 exf7 ]
e)
Shneider vs Florian Jenni, Zurich, 2003
[ Bxd5 w/Qe3 & Nxb5 ]
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