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Here are some chess puzzles from top-rated games of 1953.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.

Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.
Drag your cursor from one bracket to the other.

a)
White mates in 2.
Yuri Averbakh vs Mark Taimanov, Zuerich, 1953
1rbk1N2/7R/p4R1B/8/1p4r1/1Pn5/P1P3PP/6K1 w - - 1 0
[ Ne6+ ]

b)
White mates in 3.
Samuel Reshevsky vs Miguel Najdorf, Buenos Aires, 1953
2Q1N1k1/5p2/1b2p2p/3bN1p1/nq4P1/6BP/5P2/6K1 w - - 1 0
[ Nf6+ Kg7 Qg8+ ]

c)
White mates in 3.
Zbigniew Doda vs Romuald Grabczewski, Krakow, 1953
1k6/5R1p/2K5/1P3pp1/6n1/6P1/7P/8 w - - 1 0
[ Rf8+ Ka7 b6+ ]

d)
Black mates in 3.
Laszlo Navarovszky vs Gyorgy Szilagyi, Budapest, 1953
8/pp1R3p/2p3pk/4p3/4PqP1/1QP1b2K/PP5P/4Nr2 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rf3+ if Nxf3 Qxf3+ ]

e)
Black mates in 3.
Yngvar Barda vs Raaphi Persitz, Copenhagen, 1953
8/5p1p/6p1/6n1/5P2/4P2k/r7/4RN1K b - - 0 1
[ ...Nf3 if Rd1 Rg2 ]

Chess puzzles from top-rated games of 1953, pt. ii.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
White mates in 4.
Lothar Schmid vs Mijo Udovcic, Venice, 1953
3r1k1b/p2r1p1Q/5Rp1/1p2p1N1/2q1b1P1/1BP1B3/PP6/2K5 w - - 1 0
[ Bc5+ Qxc5 Rxf7+ ]

b)
Black mates in 5.
Isaac Boleslavsky vs Paul Keres, Zuerich, 1953
r5k1/2Q4p/p5pB/1p3p2/4nP2/3q3P/P2n2PK/R7 b - - 0 1
[ ...Nf3+ if gxf3 Qe2+ Kh1 Qxf3+ Kg1 Qg3+ ]

c)
Erno Gereben vs Bela Sandor, Budapest, 1953
rn1q1r2/pb2ppbk/1p1p1npp/2p5/2P2B2/2NP1NP1/PP2PPBP/R1Q2RK1 w - - 1 0
[ Ng5+ hxg5 Bxb7 ]

d)
Endre Gasztonyi vs Bela Sandor, Budapest, 1953
7k/2qb2b1/1p1p2p1/r2Brp1p/5P1P/1QN3P1/PP6/1K2R2R b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxe1+ Rxe1 Bxc3 if Rc1 Ba4 Qxc3+ Qxc3 Rxc3 Rxd5 ]

e)
Gyorgi Szilagyi vs Peter Dely, Budapest, 1953
4rrk1/p4p1p/1p4q1/1Pp5/P1Pp3Q/3P1N2/4PKB1/R7 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxe2+ Kxe2 Qxg2+ Kd1 Qxf3+ ]

f)
Alberto Foguelman vs Raul Sanguinetti, Buenos Aires, 1953
r1b1k2r/pp2pp1p/2n2npb/4q3/3N4/2N1BP2/PPPQ1KPP/R4B1R b kq - 0 1
[ ...Bxe3+ Qxe3 Qxd4 ]

g)
Fridrik Olafsson vs David Bronstein, Hastings, 1953
2r4k/2q2p1p/p1r3p1/1p6/3bP3/P2PN2Q/1P3RPP/5R1K b - - 0 1
[ ...Rc1 if Rf3 Bxe3 ]


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