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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Zurab Sturua.
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)
Zurab Sturua vs Vladimir Kozlov, Cheliabinsk, 1975
2r4k/3r1p1p/1p2pP2/p2pPp1P/P2P1Q2/6R1/4B1PK/2q5 w - - 0 1
[ Rg8+ if Kxg8 Qg3+ ]
b)
Zurab Sturua vs Lubomir Ftacnik, Trnava, 1980
6k1/p2r2b1/4rBpp/2R1pn2/4N3/5PP1/4P1KP/R7 w - - 0 1
[ Rc8+ if Kf7 Bxg7 Nxg7 Nc5 ]
c)
Zurab Sturua vs Iivo Nei, URS, 1980
2krr3/2b4p/pp4q1/2np4/3B1p2/5BP1/P1Q2P1P/1R1R2K1 w - - 0 1
[ Qxg6 hxg6 Bxc5 bxc5 Bg4+ Rd7 Rxc5 ]
d)
White mates in 6.
Zurab Sturua vs Janis Klovans, URS, 1984
7k/p5p1/5b1p/q1p2Q2/1nB5/4PN2/4KPPP/8 w - - 0 1
[ Ng5 Qa2+ Bxa2 Bxg5 Qf8+ Kh7 Bg8+ ]
e)
Zurab Sturua vs Valeriy Neverov, Lvov, 1985
4b1k1/r5b1/4p2p/4Nq2/p2rnP2/P2N2Q1/2B3R1/4R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ Qe3 ]
e)
Zurab Sturua vs Igor Efimov, Tbilisi, 1991
8/5pk1/1R2bn2/2r4p/2p3pP/2B1K1P1/2B2P2/8 w - - 0 1
[ Be4 if Rc7 Rb5 w/Rg5+ ]
f)
White mates in 5.
Zurab Sturua vs Evangelos Kaloussis, Katerini, 1992
1r2kb1r/1P2pp1p/p3q1p1/Q2pN2n/3P4/4P3/PP3PPP/R3K2R w - - 0 1
[ Qc7 if Rxb7 Qxb7 Kd8 Rc1 or if Rd8 b8/Q Qd6 Qbxd8+ Qxd8 Qc6+ ]
1c)
Zurab Sturua vs Iivo Nei
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