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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Emanuel Schiffers.
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)
Emanuel Schiffers vs Jurevich, St Petersburg, 1892
r1bk3r/ppbp1ppp/3Q3n/4N3/2B4q/2P5/P4PPP/RN2R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Qxh6 if Qxc4 Qh4+ or if Qxh6 Nxf7# ]

b)
White Mates in 8.
Emanuel Schiffers vs Isidor Gunsberg, Hastings, 1895
1k1rq3/8/3p3p/1P1B4/1n3p1p/3Q3P/1P3BP1/1K1R4 w - - 0 1
[ Ba7+ if Kxa7 Qd4+ ]

c)
Emanuel Schiffers vs Carl Walbrodt, Berlin, 1897
rnb2rk1/pp3p1p/4pbp1/8/3PB3/2NQ1N2/Pq3PPP/R4RK1 w - - 1 0
[ Nb5 if Nc6 Rfb1 ]

d)
Black mates in 3.
P P Benko vs Emanuel Schiffers, Kiev, 1903
8/8/2n3pk/2p2p1p/8/R3NP2/PP3RPK/3rr3 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rh1+ Kg3 h4+ Kf4 Rd4# ]

e)
White mates in 4.
Emanuel Schiffers vs Eugene Znosko Borovsky, St.Petersburg, 1904
r6r/1p2Qp1p/p1k5/3qn1p1/4p3/BP4P1/P2P2NP/R4RK1 w - - 1 0
[ Rf6+ Qe6 Rxd6+ fxe6 Qd6+ ]

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