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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Andrei Deviatkin.
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)
Alexandr Lundin vs Andrei Deviatkin, Moscow, 1996
8/p1nb1p1p/1p1k2p1/1B1p4/1K1N4/4PP2/PP4PP/8 b - - 0 1
[ ...a5+ Ka4 Nxb5 Nxb5+ Kc5 ]

b)
White mates in 5.
Andrei Deviatkin vs Igor Glek, Moscow, 2002
7r/1p2R2p/6kr/8/p1pP3P/P2bRP2/1P3BPq/4K3 w - - 1 0
[ R7e6+ Kf5 g4+ Kf4 Rf7+ ]

c)
Black mates in 5.
Fabio Bellini vs Andrei Deviatkin, Internet, 2003
4r3/6pk/6p1/1p6/8/P5P1/1P1p2KP/3Rq1Q1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qe4+ Kh3 Rh8 g4 Qf3+ ]

d)
Anton Shomoev vs Andrei Deviatkin, Internet, 2004
r4rk1/ppqnbppb/4p2p/3n4/2BPN3/5NP1/PPPBQP1P/1K1R3R b - - 0 1
[ ...Bxe4 if Qxe4 Qxc4 ]

e)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Vasily Papin, Moscow, 2006
2r2kr1/1q1p1nbp/4p2B/pp3p1Q/3RN3/2P3P1/PP3P1P/R5K1 w - - 1 0
[ Nf6 if Nxh6 or Bxh6 Rxd7 ]

1a)
Alexandr Lundin vs Andrei Deviatkin

Andrei Deviatkin puzzles, pt. ii.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Ilya Dudukin, Moscow, 2008
3r1r1k/3q2p1/1p1b3p/p1nB4/P2B4/2Q3PP/4RP2/4R1K1 w - - 1 0
[ Re6 Nxe6 Rxe6 if Bb4 Rxh6# or if Rf7 Rxh6+ mates ]

b)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Alexander Krapivin, Zvenigorod, 2008
3r1k2/r4PpQ/5b2/7p/2p5/6P1/P4P1P/6K1 w - - 1 0
[ Qg8+ Ke7 Qxd8+ Kxd8 f8/Q+ ]

c)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Farrukh Amonatov, St. Petersburg, 2009
8/8/1N1p3p/pB1Pkpp1/Pb4P1/1b1KP3/6P1/8 w - - 0 1
[ Nd7+ Kxd5 gxf5 w/e4# ]

d)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Andrei Tregubov, Moscow, 2009
3r1rk1/q2n3p/bp2pbp1/p7/Pn2NPP1/4BN2/1P3QBP/R2R2K1 w - - 1 0
[ Nxf6+ Nxf6 Rxd8 Rxd8 Bxb6 ]

e)
White mates in 4.
Andrei Deviatkin vs Denis Kadric, Budva, 2009
3r3k/pbq3b1/1p4Qp/2p3p1/2B2p2/2P2N1P/PP3PP1/4R1K1 w - - 1 0
[ Re8+ Rxe8 Qxe8+ Kh7 Bd3+ ]

2d)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Andrei Tregubov

Andrei Deviatkin puzzles, pt. iii.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Mikhail Vitinik, Vladivostok, 2014
5R2/p7/1pn2r2/2pp1k1P/5P2/P1P5/3KB3/8 w - - 1 0
[ Bg4+ ]

b)
White mates in 5.
Andrei Deviatkin vs Anatoliy Emeliantsev, Vladivostok, 2014
1q3rk1/3p4/5P1p/1p3BpP/p6r/P4P2/1B2Q1K1/3R4 w - - 1 0
[ Bh7+ if Kxh7 Qe7+ or if Kh8 f7+ Kxh7 Qc2+ ]

c)
Minh Thang Tran vs Andrei Deviatkin, Bhubaneswar, 2018
6kb/3npp1p/3p2pP/2pP4/2q1P1P1/2Nn1PN1/1PQB2K1/r4R2 b - - 0 1
[ ...Nb4 ]

3a)
Andrei Deviatkin vs Mikhail Vitinik


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