Here are some chess puzzles from the games of 1906.
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 3.
Loyd vs Gerald Moore, USA, 1906
2b2r2/1pn3pk/r7/p3N3/2Q2p1N/7R/Pq4PP/4R2K w - - 0 1
[ Qe6 if Nxe6 Nf5+ or if Rxe6 Nhg6+ ]
b)
White mates in 4.
Shtraus vs Cukkenbekker, Vienna, 1906
rnb2rk1/ppp2pp1/3p3p/2bP2NQ/6q1/2PB4/P2K1PPP/R1B1R3 w - - 0 1
[ Qxf7+ Rxf7 Re8+ Rf8 Bh7+ ]
c)
White mates in 4.
Cook vs A Mueller, Bristol, 1906
rnbq1rk1/pp2bp1p/4p1p1/2pp2Nn/5P1P/1P1BP3/PBPP2P1/RN1QK2R w - - 0 1
[ Qxh5 if gxh5 Bxh7# or if Bxg5 Qxh7+ Kxh7 hxg5 ]
d)
White mates in 5.
Milan Vidmar, Sr vs Siegbert Tarrasch, Nuremberg, 1906
r1r5/2Rb2q1/p1N1k3/1p1p1pPQ/1P1PnB2/P7/5P2/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Rxe4+ if fxe4 Qh3+ Kf7 Qxd7+ or if dxe4 d5+ Kxd5 Qd1+ ]
e)
White mates in 5.
Gregory vs Lowy, Nuremberg, 1906
3R1N2/p1r3p1/1p5p/4kP2/1n2P1P1/2p1K2P/P7/8 w - - 0 1
[ Ng6+ Kf6 e5+ Kg5 Kf3 ]
f)
Geza Maroczy vs Osip Bernstein, Ostende, 1906
3r3r/pp4k1/2pq1pp1/8/2P1R1P1/4Q3/P1P2R1P/6K1 w - - 0 1
[ c5 if Qd5 Re7+ Kg8 Rd2 ]
g)
Arturo Reggio vs Erhard Post, Ostende, 1906
1r2r1q1/ppp3pp/2nk1p2/1QR5/3P4/4BP2/PP2KP1P/3R4 w - - 0 1
[ d5 if Ne7 Bf4# ]
1e)
mate in 5
Gregory vs Lowy
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