"Tactics in the Queen's Gambit" by wtharvey.com
Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Vera Menchik.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.
a)
Stevenson vs Vera Menchik, Hamburg, 1930
r4rk1/4q1p1/p1npb2p/2p1p2n/PpP1Pp2/1P1P1N1P/2BNQPPR/R6K b - - 0 1
[ ...Ng3+ fxg3 fxg3 ]
b)
White mates in 6.
Vera Menchik vs George Thomas, London, 1932
r5rk/q1pb1p1p/1p1p1PpQ/2nPp2P/2P1P3/2N2P2/Pp6/1K1R1BR1 w - - 0 1
[ hxg6 Rxg6 Rxg6 ]
c)
Vera Menchik vs Brian Reilly, Margate, 1935
r3r1k1/p2n3p/1p2p3/3qBpp1/2pP4/2P1P3/P2Q1PPP/R4RK1 w - - 0 1
[ e4 if Qxe4 Qxg5+ ]
d)
White mates in 7.
Vera Menchik vs Victor Buerger, Margate, 1937
3k1rr1/4n2R/5p2/1p2pPp1/4P1P1/2QP1K2/4N2R/3q4 w - - 0 1
[ Qa5+ if Kd7 Rxe7+ Kxe7 Rh7+ Rf7 Qc7+ if Kc8 Qa8+ ]
e)
Vera Menchik vs Sonja Graf, Semmering, 1937
r4rk1/pbq1bp2/1p2p1p1/6Np/2P3n1/2B4Q/PPB2PPP/3R1RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Rd7 if Qxd7 Qxh5+ gxh5 Bh7# ]
1e)
Vera Menchik vs Sonja Graf
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