'Tactics in the Sicilian' series
Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Chanda Sandipan.
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)
Chanda Sandipan vs Tihomir Dovramadjiev, Calicut, 1998
r1b1kbr1/1p1p1p1p/pBn1pQp1/4q3/N3P3/1B6/PP3PPP/R2R2K1 w q - 0 1
[ Qxe5 Nxe5 Bc7 if Nc6 Nb6 ]
b)
Chanda Sandipan vs V Saravanan, Guntur, 2000
2k1q3/pp6/4r3/P2Q1pp1/n7/2p2P2/1PP2P2/2KR1B2 w - - 0 1
[ b3 if Nb2 Bb5 Qe7 Bd7+ or if Qe7 Qc4+ ]
c)
Chanda Sandipan vs C J Arvind, Jamshedpur, 2000
r1b2rk1/p1q1bppp/2pnn3/3pN3/8/2NB1Q2/P1PP1PPP/R1B1R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Nxc6 Qxc6 Nxd5 if Qb7 Nxe7+ or if Kh8 Qh5 f5 Ne7 ]
d)
Chanda Sandipan vs Vedant Goswami, Jamshedpur, 2000
4k1r1/pp1bbpBp/2r2np1/q1p1Q3/8/2N2N1P/PPP2PP1/R4RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Bxf6 Rxf6 Nd5 if Re6 Nc7+ ]
e)
White mates in 9.
Chanda Sandipan vs Josef Gheng, Leinfeld, 2000
2rrb1k1/1p2pp1p/p1n1n1pQ/3RP3/1q2N1P1/5N1P/PP3PB1/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Nfg5 if Nf8 Nf6+ exf6 exf6 ]
1d)
Chanda Sandipan vs Vedant Goswami
Chanda Sandipan Puzzles, Part II.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
White mates in 4.
Chanda Sandipan vs Mona Goihl, Senden, 2001
rk1r4/p3RR2/1p3Q2/3q1p2/2p2P2/7P/2P3P1/7K w - - 0 1
[ Rb7+ if Qxb7 Qxd8+ Qc8 Qd6+ ]
b)
Chanda Sandipan vs Marc Schuette, Bad Woerishofen, 2003
k7/6b1/1pq1pr1p/2p2P1P/2Pp2p1/5bB1/PPB2R2/2K1Q3 w - - 0 1
[ Rxf3 if gxf3 Be4 ]
c)
Chanda Sandipan vs Sunil Prathamesh, Calicut, 2003
r3r3/1b3pkp/pp3np1/5P2/3N4/2N1q2P/PP1Q1RP1/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
[ Ne6+ if Rxe6 fxe6 Qxe6 Rdf1 ]
d)
Chanda Sandipan vs Vishal Sareen, Calicut, 2003
2rq1k2/Q3Rp1p/p2p1rp1/1p1P4/5P2/2P5/PP5P/1K2R3 w - - 0 1
[ Rd7 if Qa5 Ree7 ]
e)
White mates in 6.
Chanda Sandipan vs Maleq Abdul, Dhaka, 2004
6rk/3R2b1/7p/qpp1p1pP/6P1/P1p2P2/2Q3K1/3R4 w - - 0 1
[ R1d6 ]
2a)
mate in 4
Chanda Sandipan vs Mona Goihl
Chanda Sandipan Puzzles, Part III.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Chanda Sandipan vs Sharma Himanshu, New Delhi, 2006
1rbk3r/1pqpbp1p/p5pB/2pQ4/B7/2P4P/PPP2PP1/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Rxe7 if Kxe7 Qe4+ mates or if f6 Bf4 ]
b)
Chanda Sandipan vs Watu Kobese, Gibraltar, 2006
r3r1k1/1b3ppp/pP2p3/4Q1P1/qbp1p3/4BPN1/1PP4P/1K1R3R w - - 0 1
[ Nh5 Bf8 Nf6+ gxf6 gxf6 Kh8 Qg3 ]
c)
White mates in 5.
Chanda Sandipan vs Sergei Tiviakov, Ottawa, 2007
r1b1r1k1/pq3p1p/1p2np1Q/3p1N2/3Rn3/6PB/P4P1P/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Rexe4 dxe4 Qxf6 h5 Nh6+ Kf8 Qh8+ ]
d)
Chanda Sandipan vs Turkan Mamedjarova, Cappelle la Grande, 2008
r1b2r1k/1p3pp1/7p/4n3/p3P3/P2Q1NP1/BqR2PP1/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Qd6 if Nxf3+ gxf3 Qxc2 Qxf8+ Kh7 Bxf7 ]
e)
Chanda Sandipan vs Harmen Van Den Berg, Dieren, 2008
3r2k1/2q3p1/7n/1p1pr1PQ/3pp3/1P1P4/P3RPB1/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ f4 ]
3d)
Chanda Sandipan vs Turkan Mamedjarova
Chanda Sandipan Puzzles, Part IV.
The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first.
a)
Chanda Sandipan vs Mikhail Kazakov, Bilbao, 2014
2r2r1k/1b4pp/p3QPP1/1p6/2p1p2q/P7/1P5P/1BR2R1K w - - 1 0
[ fxg7+ Kxg7 Rf7+ ]
b)
Chanda Sandipan vs Katarzyna Toma, Mumbai, 2017
5rk1/1p2q1p1/2pRb3/6p1/1P1QPP1P/8/1B3K2/8 w - - 1 0
[ Rxe6 ]
c)
Istvan Almasi vs Chanda Sandipan, Suwalki, 2017
5rk1/7p/2p1R1p1/Rp1n4/5N2/6P1/PP1r1P1P/6K1 b - - 0 1
[ 1...Rxf4 if 2.gxf4 Rd1+ 3.Kg2 Nxf4+ ]
d)
White mates in 3.
Chanda Sandipan vs Eelke Wiersma, Dieren, 2017
3q3k/3bb1Rn/p4n2/1p1p3N/2pP4/4rP1Q/PP2N2P/6RK w - - 1 0
[ 1.Nxf6 ]
e)
Black mates in 3.
Max Hess vs Chanda Sandipan, Gmund am Tegerns, 2019
r6Q/6p1/p4k2/2bP4/P7/2N5/5nPP/R4BK1 b - - 0 1
[ 1...Ne4+ 2.Kh1 Ng3+ 3.hxg3 Rxh8# ]
4c)
Istvan Almasi vs Chanda Sandipan
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