100 major chess upsets of 2010
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Here are 100 chess puzzlesfrom major upsets of 2010.
The dot on the right side of the diagram
indicates who moves first.
1)
Judit Polgar 2682 vs Veselin Topalov 2803,
Mexico City, 2010
2)
Jon Ludvig Hammer 2636 vs Magnus
Carlsen 2826, Kristiansund, 2010
3)
Yaroslav Zinchenko 2546 vs Gata Kamsky
2702, Internet, 2010
4)
Rodrigo Vasquez 2506 vs Hikaru Nakamura
2735, Internet, 2010
5)
White Mates in 6.
Vasily Yemelin 2571 vs David Navara
2722, Czech Republic, 2010
6)
Sergei Azarov 2596 vs Radoslaw Wojtaszek
2711, Czech Republic, 2010
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7)
White Mates in 2.
Aleksandar Berelovich 2553 vs Francisco
Vallejo Pons 2708, Germany, 2010
8)
Li Shilong 2514 vs Wang Hao 2715,
Xinghua, 2010
9)
Michael Maechel 1748 Peter Heine Nielsen
2700, Copenhagen, 2010
10)
Rainer Buhmann 2573 vs Viktor Bologan
2695, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
11)
Kacper Piorun 2497 vs Alexander
Riazantsev 2686, Warsaw, 2010
12)
Jens Ramsdal vs Peter Heine Nielsen 2700,
Copenhagen, 2010
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13)
Alexandr Kharitonov 2548 vs Denis
Khismatullin 2657, Moscow, 2010
14)
Lajos Portisch 2519 vs Alexander Beliavsky
2657, Szentgotthard, 2010
15)
Denis Yevseev 2531 vs Boris Grachev 2668,
Irkutsk, 2010
16)
Kivanc Haznedaroglu 2501 vs Giovanni
Vescovi 2629, Bursa, 2010
17)
White Mates in 6.
Andreas Eichhorn 2321 vs Maxim Turov
2639, Bad Wiessee, 2010
18)
Stefan Docx 2370 vs Ivan Sokolov 2641,
Antwerpen, 2010
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19)
Leonid Gerzhoy 2471 vs Viktor Laznicka
2638, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
20)
Mikhail Krylov 2511 vs Konstantin Landa
2645, Dagomys, 2010
21)
Asghar Golizadeh 2454 vs Ngoc Truongson
Nguyen 2642, Olongapo City, 2010
22)
White Mates in 4.
Gaby Livshits 2447 vs Eduardas Rozentalis
2628, Israel, 2010
23)
Aramis Alvarez Pedraza 2496 vs Julio
Granda Zuniga 2639, Burguillos, 2010
24)
Leonid Gerzhoy 2471 vs Eduardas
Rozentalis 2631 , Chalkidiki, 2010
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25)
White Mates in 16.
Piotr Dobrowolski 2397 vs Daniel Fridman
2650, Wroclaw, 2010
26)
Vadim Gorkavij 2356 vs Farrukh Amonatov
2637, Belorechensk, 2010
27)
Sebastian Testor 2319 vs Hrvoje Stevic
2610, Austria, 2010
28)
Vasif Durarbeyli 2476 vs Ivan Saric 2607,
Rijeka, 2010
29)
Dieter Pirrot 2403 vs Alexander 2606, Bad
Wiessee, 2010
30)
Rasmus Skytte 2400 vs Christian Bauer
2612, Plovdiv, 2010
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31)
John Bartholomew 2447 vs Alex Lenderman
2601, Mesa, 2010
32)
Irina Krush 2461 vs Alex Lenderman 2601,
Mesa, 2010
33)
Nurlan Ibraev 2405 vs Evgeny Vorobiov
2616, Bhubaneswar, 2010
34)
White Mates in 4.
Miso Cebalo 2500 vs Viorel Iordachescu
2623, Bratto, 2010
35)
White Mates in 2.
Nazi Paikidze 2322 vs Csaba Balogh 2622,
Wroclaw, 2010
36)
Alexander Kaspi 2458 vs Ivan Salgado
Lopez 2592, Leon, 2010
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37)
White Mates in 3.
Sebastian Siebrecht 2421 vs Julian Radulski
2594, Bad Wiessee, 2010
38)
White Mates in 5.
Igors Rausis 2470 vs Andrey Zhigalko 2580,
Vilnius, 2010
39)
Jos Woolley 2099 vs Gawain Jones 2576,
Halifax, 2010
40)
Alessio Valsecchi 2331 vs Andrei Sokolov
2589, Geneva, 2010
41)
Andrew Brown 2155 vs Zhao Zong-Yuan
2583, Gold Coast, 2010
42)
White Mates in 3.
Rao Prasanna 2400 vs Vasilios Kotronias
2592, Hastings, 2010
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43)
Ji Dan 2379 vs Zhou Weiqi 2584, Xinghua,
2010
44)
Liu Qingnan 2445 vs Zhou Weiqi 2584,
Hefei, 2010
45)
Israel Caspi 2426 vs Marcin Dziuba 2586,
Eforie Nord, 2010
46)
Beglar Jobava 2438 vs Tornike Sanikidze
2566, Tbilisi, 2010
47)
Miroslav Zufic 2445 vs Avetik Grigoryan
2565, Rijeka, 2010
48)
White Mates in 2.
Ervin Toth 2414 vs Jozsef Horvath 2560,
Hungary, 2010
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49)
Vladimir Pogosian 2199 vs Sergei Shipov
2557, St. Petersburg, 2010
50)
Nazi Paikidze 2376 vs Tatiana Kosintseva
2573, Moscow, 2010
51)
Bragi Thorfinnsson 2415 vs Slavko Cicak
2568, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
52)
Nikolay Noritsyn 2401 vs Alojzije Jankovic
2567, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
53)
Costin Cozianu 2439 vs Joel Benjamin
2556, Internet, 2010
54)
Silvia Collas 2320 vs Atanas Kolev 2571,Bansko, 2010
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55)
Richard Bates 2374 vs Deep Sengupta 2558,
Hastings, 2010
56)
Kiril Badev 2396 vs Momchil Nikolov
2550, Kyustendil, 2010
57)
David Adams 2217 vs Stuart Conquest
2551, England, 2010
58)
White Mates in 5.
Pavel Dimitrov 2369 vs Mircea Parligras
2551, Varna, 2010
59)
White Mates in 5.
Peter Meister 2407 vs Falko Bindrich 2532,
Germany, 2010
60)
White Mates in 5.
Christoph Renner 2420 vs Arik Braun 2527,
Nuernberg, 2010
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67)
White Mates in 4.
Prasanna Vishnu 2341 vs Yaroslav
Zinchenko 2544, Kavala, 2010
68)
Djakhangir Agaragimov 2311 vs Davit Jojua
2530, Baku, 2010
69)
Luc Bergez 2394 vs Cristhian Cruz 2536, LaBordeta, 2010
70)
Bjorn Thorfinnsson 2376 vs Gergely-
Andras-Gyula Szabo 2525, Eforie Nord,
2010
71)
White Mates in 3.
Aman Hambleton 2131 vs Joshua Friedel
2527, Toronto, 2010
72)
Glen De Schampheleire 2254 vs Alexandre
Dgebuadze 2537, Westerlo, 2010
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73)
Black Mates in 3.
Vassily Ivanchuk 2754 vs Zaven Andriasian
2579, Warsaw (blitz), 2010
74)
Peter Svidler 2734 vs Ivan Salgado Lopez
2607, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
75)
Hikaru Nakamura 2735 vs Yuri Shulman
2614, Saint Louis, 2010
76)
David Navara 2708 vs Ioannis Nikolaidis
2490, Peristeri, 2010
77)
Arkadij Naiditsch 2691 vs Spyridon
Kapnisis 2509, Peristeri, 2010
78)
Michal Krasenkow 2656 vs Kateryna Lahno
2481, France, 2010
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79)
Bartosz Socko 2637 vs Zbigniew Pakleza
2512, Warsaw, 2010
80)
Black Mates in 3.
Yuri Shulman 2636 vs Alexandre
Kretchetov 2361, Las Vegas, 2010
81)Alexander Lastin 2643 vs Nikolai
Looshnikov 2500, Voronezh, 2010
82)
Black Mates in 5.
Tigran L Petrosian 2612 vs Khaled Abdel
Razik 2474, Bursa, 2010
83)
Gadir Guseinov 2609 vs Tamir Nabaty
2485, Rijeka, 2010
84)
Pavel Ponkratov 2604 vs Ilya Khmelniker2483, Plovdiv, 2010
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85)
Black Mates in 3.
Koneru Humpy 2600 vs Vera Nebolsina
2349, Moscow (blitz), 2010
86)
Aleksandr Rakhmanov 2605 vs Gleb
Apryshko 2295, Moscow, 2010
87)
Black Mates in 5.
G N Gopal 2603 vs Praveen Thipsay 2465,
New Delhi, 2010
88)
Dmitry Kryakvin 2603 vs Evgeni Janev
2463, Paracin, 2010
89)
Black Mates in 3.
Julian Radulski 2592 vs Radoslav Dimitrov
2386, Blagoevgrad, 2010
90)
Black Mates in 5.
Alexander Graf 2598 vs Martin Zumsande
2413, Dresden, 2010
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91)
Marcin Dziuba 2586 vs Maciej Rutkowski
2428, Warsaw, 2010
92)
Jaan Ehlvest 2598 vs Drasko Boskovic
2454, Reykjavik, 2010
93)
Elshan Moradiabadi 2578 vs Namhai
Battulga 2421, Guanzhou, 2010
94)
Fidel Corrales 2599 vs Jose Fernando Cubas
2463, Figueira da Foz, 2010
95)
Black Mates in 5.
Sipke Ernst 2587 vs Martin Zumsande 2414,
Germany, 2010
96)Black Mates in 5.
Alexander Fier 2581 vs Sai Krishna 2282,
Bhubaneswar, 2010
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97)
Giorgi Kacheishvili 2587 vs Alec Getz
2239, Philadelphia, 2010
98)
Robert Hess 2578 vs Salvijus Bercys 2420,
Philadelphia, 2010
99)
Black Mates in 6.
Alexander Evdokimov 2564 vs David
Gochelashvili 2447, Moscow, 2010
100)
Rainer Buhmann 2563 - Jorge Viterbo
Ferreira 1902, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2010
Solutions
1) Judit Polgar 2682 vs Veselin Topalov 2803,
Mexico City, 2010
[ Re5 if Qg4 Bf5 Qh4+ g3 or if Bxf3 Kxf3 Qf6 Rf5
]
2) Jon Ludvig Hammer 2636 vs Magnus Carlsen2826, Kristiansund, 2010
[ Qc2 if Rfe8 Qh7+ Kf8 Bxe5 or if Nxg5 Qg6+ ]
3) Yaroslav Zinchenko 2546 vs Gata Kamsky
2702, Internet, 2010
[ Rd1 if Qe4 Qxe4 Rxe4 Ng5+ ]
4) Rodrigo Vasquez 2506 vs Hikaru Nakamura
2735, Internet, 2010
[ Nxb7 if Nxd3 Nxd8 Nxb2 Nxe6 ]
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5) White Mates in 6.
Vasily Yemelin 2571 vs David Navara 2722,
Czech Republic, 2010
[ Nf8+ Kh8 Bg7+ Kg8 Bxf6+ Kxf8 Rg8+ ]
6) Sergei Azarov 2596 vs Radoslaw Wojtaszek
2711, Czech Republic, 2010
[ Rb3 Bxb3 axb3 Qxb4 Nxb5 ]
7) White Mates in 2.
Aleksandar Berelovich 2553 vs Francisco Vallejo
Pons 2708, Germany, 2010
[ Qd8+ ]
8) Li Shilong 2514 vs Wang Hao 2715, Xinghua,
2010
[ Nxe6 ]
9) Michael Maechel 1748 Peter Heine Nielsen
2700, Copenhagen, 2010
[ Nb6 if Qxb6 Nxe6+ or if Rd8 Nxd7 Rxd7 Nxe6
fxe6 Qxc5 ]
10) Rainer Buhmann 2573 vs Viktor Bologan
2695, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
[ Ra6 Qb8 Be5 ]
11) Kacper Piorun 2497 vs Alexander
Riazantsev 2686, Warsaw, 2010
[ Rxd7 ]
12) Jens Ramsdal vs Peter Heine Nielsen 2700,
Copenhagen, 2010
[ axb5 Bxb5 Nxb5 ]
13) Alexandr Kharitonov 2548 vs Denis
Khismatullin 2657, Moscow, 2010
[ Bxf6 if Nxf6 Qg5 ]
14) Lajos Portisch 2519 vs Alexander Beliavsky
2657, Szentgotthard, 2010
[ b4 if axb4 axb4 Bf2 Be5 Qf8 Qb7 ]
15) Denis Yevseev 2531 vs Boris Grachev 2668,
Irkutsk, 2010
[ Ne7+ Qxe7 Bxa8 if Rxa8 Qd5+ ]
16) Kivanc Haznedaroglu 2501 vs Giovanni
Vescovi 2629, Bursa, 2010
[ h7 if Rxe5 h8/Q+ Kd7 Rd6+ ]
17) White Mates in 6.
Andreas Eichhorn 2321 vs Maxim Turov 2639,
Bad Wiessee, 2010
[ Rxf8+ Qxf8 Rxh6+ w/Qd4+ ]
18) Stefan Docx 2370 vs Ivan Sokolov 2641,
Antwerpen, 2010
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[ Qxg4 if Rxc3 Qb4 ]
19) Leonid Gerzhoy 2471 vs Viktor Laznicka
2638, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
[ Nf7+ if Kg8 Nh6+ ]
20) Mikhail Krylov 2511 vs Konstantin Landa
2645, Dagomys, 2010
[ Ng5+ if Kf6 Nxh7+ Kf5 Rf7+ Ke4 Nf6+ or if Re7
Rxe7 Kf6 Rf7+ mates ]
21) Asghar Golizadeh 2454 vs Ngoc Truongson
Nguyen 2642, Olongapo City, 2010
[ c6+ ]
22) White Mates in 4.
Gaby Livshits 2447 vs Eduardas Rozentalis 2628,
Israel, 2010
[ Re7 ]
23) Aramis Alvarez Pedraza 2496 vs Julio
Granda Zuniga 2639, Burguillos, 2010
[ Nf5+ ]
24) Leonid Gerzhoy 2471 vs Eduardas
Rozentalis 2631 , Chalkidiki, 2010
[ Ke1 ]
25) White Mates in 16.
Piotr Dobrowolski 2397 vs Daniel Fridman 2650,
Wroclaw, 2010
[ Rxg7+ Kxg7 Qh6+ Kg8 Nd2 Ne4 Rg1+ Ng5 Nf3 ]
26)
Vadim Gorkavij 2356 vs Farrukh Amonatov
2637, Belorechensk, 2010
[ h4+ Kf5 Rf7+ ]
27) Sebastian Testor 2319 vs Hrvoje Stevic
2610, Austria, 2010
[ Qxd4 Bxd4 Bd6 ]
28) Vasif Durarbeyli 2476 vs Ivan Saric 2607,
Rijeka, 2010
[ Bc7 if Re6 Qd7 or if Kh7 Re8 ]
29) Dieter Pirrot 2403 vs Alexander 2606, Bad
Wiessee, 2010
[ f6 if Rd8 Nh5 h6 Nxg7 Kh7 Re5 or if e5 f7+
Kxf7 Bxe5+ ]
30) Rasmus Skytte 2400 vs Christian Bauer
2612, Plovdiv, 2010
[ Bxd5 if exd5 Qf5 g6 Rxh6+ Kg7 Qf4 mates ]
31) John Bartholomew 2447 vs Alex Lenderman
2601, Mesa, 2010
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[ Qg5 ]
32) Irina Krush 2461 vs Alex Lenderman 2601,
Mesa, 2010
[ Qc5 Qb7 Rxc8+ Qxc8 Qb5+ ]
33) Nurlan Ibraev 2405 vs Evgeny Vorobiov
2616, Bhubaneswar, 2010
[ Bxf7+ if Rxf7 Rxb8+ ]
34) White Mates in 4.
Miso Cebalo 2500 vs Viorel Iordachescu 2623,
Bratto, 2010
[ Nc6+ Kf7 Rxc7+ ]
35) White Mates in 2.
Nazi Paikidze 2322 vs Csaba Balogh 2622,Wroclaw, 2010
[ Nd5+ ]
36) Alexander Kaspi 2458 vs Ivan Salgado Lopez
2592, Leon, 2010
[ Qd3 (w/Rdg1) if Bb5 Qg6 ]
37) White Mates in 3.
Sebastian Siebrecht 2421 vs Julian Radulski
2594, Bad Wiessee, 2010
[ Nf6+ ]
38) White Mates in 5.
Igors Rausis 2470 vs Andrey Zhigalko 2580,
Vilnius, 2010
[ Bxf6 if Bxf6 Qf7+ Rxf7 Rxf7+ Kg8 Nxf6+ or if
Qxd7 Bxg7+ Rxg7 Qh8+ ]
39) Jos Woolley 2099 vs Gawain Jones 2576,
Halifax, 2010
[ Nb5 if Qf6 Bg5 Qxg5 Nxc7+ Kd8 Nxf7+ or if
Qd8 Nxc6 w/Nxc7+ ]
40) Alessio Valsecchi 2331 vs Andrei Sokolov
2589, Geneva, 2010
[ Nd5 if b4 Nf6+ mates or if Nxd8 Qxg5 f6 Qg6 ]
41) Andrew Brown 2155 vs Zhao Zong-Yuan
2583, Gold Coast, 2010
[ Qd2 ]
42) White Mates in 3.
Rao Prasanna 2400 vs Vasilios Kotronias 2592,
Hastings, 2010
[ Qxh5+ if Kg7 Re7+ or if Kxf6 Qg5+ ]
43) Ji Dan 2379 vs Zhou Weiqi 2584, Xinghua,
2010
[ Qe4+ w/Qe8+ ]
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44) Liu Qingnan 2445 vs Zhou Weiqi 2584,
Hefei, 2010
[ Na4 if Rxc1 Nxb6 f6 Qe5+ Rxd5 Bxd5+ ]
45) Israel Caspi 2426 vs Marcin Dziuba 2586,
Eforie Nord, 2010
[ Rg8+ Rxg8 Qf6+ ]
46) Beglar Jobava 2438 vs Tornike Sanikidze
2566, Tbilisi, 2010
[ Qe3+ if Kg7 Qe5 Kg8 Rxg6+ or if Kh5 Nh3mates ]
47) Miroslav Zufic 2445 vs Avetik Grigoryan
2565, Rijeka, 2010
[ h4+ if Kg6 Rg1+ Qxg1 Qg8+ or if Kf4 Rf1+ Kg3
Qg7+ ]
48) White Mates in 2.
Ervin Toth 2414 vs Jozsef Horvath 2560,
Hungary, 2010
[ Rxh6+ ]
49) Vladimir Pogosian 2199 vs Sergei Shipov
2557, St. Petersburg, 2010
[ Rxe5 if dxe5 Qf6+ mates ]
50) Nazi Paikidze 2376 vs Tatiana Kosintseva
2573, Moscow, 2010
[ Ng5 if Rb6 Rf7 mates ]
51) Bragi Thorfinnsson 2415 vs Slavko Cicak
2568, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
[ Ng4 ]
52) Nikolay Noritsyn 2401 vs Alojzije Jankovic
2567, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
[ Rc8+ Kg7 Bc3 if Bxc3 bxa7 ]
53) Costin Cozianu 2439 vs Joel Benjamin 2556,
Internet, 2010
[ Rxd5 if Nxd5 Qxc4 Re5 Rd1 g5 Rxd5 ]
54) Silvia Collas 2320 vs Atanas Kolev 2571,
Bansko, 2010
[ Rxf6 if Qxf6 Qxd5+ if Kh8 Qd7 ]
55) Richard Bates 2374 vs Deep Sengupta 2558,
Hastings, 2010
[ Be3 Qb7 Ra7 Qc6 d7 ]
56) Kiril Badev 2396 vs Momchil Nikolov 2550,
Kyustendil, 2010
[ Nd5 if exd5 Bf6+ mates ]
57) David Adams 2217 vs Stuart Conquest
2551, England, 2010
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[ Qd8 if Ng4+ Kh3 ]
58) White Mates in 5.
Pavel Dimitrov 2369 vs Mircea Parligras 2551,
Varna, 2010
[ Nf5 if Nxf5 Qb8+ ]
59) White Mates in 5.
Peter Meister 2407 vs Falko Bindrich 2532,
Germany, 2010
[ Qd7+ Kg8 Qe8+ Rf8 Nf6+ ]
60) White Mates in 5.
Christoph Renner 2420 vs Arik Braun 2527,
Nuernberg, 2010
[ Re8+ Nxe8 Qd5+ Nd6 Qg5+ ]
61) White Mates in 4.
Mikhail Demidov 2395 vs Vitaly Kunin 2538,
Moscow, 2010
[ Ne8+ Kh6 Qh8+ Kg5 Qf6+ ]
62) Johan Furhoff 2372 vs Sergey Ivanov 2536,
Stockholm, 2010
[ Ne8+ if Rxe8 Rg3+ Kh8 Bg7+ Kg8 Bxf6+ Kf8
Rg7 or if Ne4 Nf6+ ]
63) Lars Even Andersen 2237 vs Sinisa Drazic
2546, Zwijndrecht, 2010
[ Rc7+ if Kf8 Qd7 or if Rxc7 Qd6# ]
64) Niclas Huschenbeth 2411 vs Leonid Milov
2545, Deizisau, 2010
[ Nxf5 if exf5 Bxe7+ Qxe7 Rxe7 Kxe7 Qc5+ Ke8
Qe5+ Re6 Qh8+ ]
65) Ponnuswamy Konguvel 2423 vs Rustam
Khusnutdinov 2527, Delhi, 2010
[ c5 if Qd7 Rxe6 Qxe6 Bc4 ]
66) Deysi Cori T 2403 vs Anna Muzychuk 2527,
Chotowa, 2010
[ Rxf7+ Qxf7 Qxd6+ Qe7 Qxb8+ Qb7 ]
67) White Mates in 4.
Prasanna Vishnu 2341 vs Yaroslav Zinchenko
2544, Kavala, 2010
[ Nxe6+ Bxe6 Qxd6+ ]
68) Djakhangir Agaragimov 2311 vs Davit Jojua
2530, Baku, 2010
[ Bb6 if Bd6 Rh8 ]
69) Luc Bergez 2394 vs Cristhian Cruz 2536, La
Bordeta, 2010
[ Qg5 if Nxe4 Qxg6+ Kf8 Qh6+ Kg8 Be6 ]
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70) Bjorn Thorfinnsson 2376 vs Gergely-Andras-
Gyula Szabo 2525, Eforie Nord, 2010
[ Qg5 if Qf6 Bg6+ mates ]
71) White Mates in 3.
Aman Hambleton 2131 vs Joshua Friedel 2527,
Toronto, 2010
[ Qh7+ ]
72) Glen De Schampheleire 2254 vs Alexandre
Dgebuadze 2537, Westerlo, 2010
[ d6 Re8 Bxe5 Rxe5 d7 ]
73) Black Mates in 3.
Vassily Ivanchuk 2754 vs Zaven Andriasian 2579,
Warsaw (blitz), 2010
[ ...Ng4 ]
74) Peter Svidler 2734 vs Ivan Salgado Lopez
2607, Khanty Mansyisk, 2010
[ ...e3+ if Kg1 Bxg2 Kxg2 Qe4+ mates ]
75) Hikaru Nakamura 2735 vs Yuri Shulman
2614, Saint Louis, 2010
[ ...Qd3 Qf6 Rxg5 Qxg5 Qd4+ Kh1 Qe3 Qh4 Rc1
]
76) David Navara 2708 vs Ioannis Nikolaidis
2490, Peristeri, 2010
[ Bxd6 Bxe6 Kh8 if cxd6 Rxd6+ or if Bf5 Bf4+
mates ]
77) Arkadij Naiditsch 2691 vs Spyridon Kapnisis
2509, Peristeri, 2010
[ ...Nh3 if gxh3 Qb1+ mates (if Qxc4 Bxc5+
mates) ]
78) Michal Krasenkow 2656 vs Kateryna Lahno
2481, France, 2010
[ Bc2 d6+ Kxd6 Ra6+ Rc6 if Bb5 Rxa6 Bxa6 Kc5 ]
79) Bartosz Socko 2637 vs Zbigniew Pakleza
2512, Warsaw, 2010
[ ...Be2 if Qxe2 Qxd4+ ]
80) Black Mates in 3.
Yuri Shulman 2636 vs Alexandre Kretchetov
2361, Las Vegas, 2010
[ ...f5+ Kh4 Kh6 ]
81) Alexander Lastin 2643 vs Nikolai
Looshnikov 2500, Voronezh, 2010
[ ...Rd1+ Kh2 Nxf2 if Rg3 Bxg2 Kxg2 Nxg4 of if
Bxc6 Ng4+ ]
82) Black Mates in 5.
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Tigran L Petrosian 2612 vs Khaled Abdel Razik
2474, Bursa, 2010
[ ...Nf4+ Rf4 Rc3+ ]
83) Gadir Guseinov 2609 vs Tamir Nabaty 2485,
Rijeka, 2010
[ ...Rf3+ Ke2 Rxf6 Bxd5 Kxe7 ]
84) Pavel Ponkratov 2604 vs Ilya Khmelniker
2483, Plovdiv, 2010
[ ...Bb4 if Ne5 or Nd2 a3 ]
85) Black Mates in 3.
Koneru Humpy 2600 vs Vera Nebolsina 2349,
Moscow (blitz), 2010
[ ...Qg3 ]
86) Aleksandr Rakhmanov 2605 vs Gleb
Apryshko 2295, Moscow, 2010
[ ...Qa4 Nxd4 Rxd4 Nc3 Bxd3 Nxa4 Rxa4 ]
87) Black Mates in 5.
G N Gopal 2603 vs Praveen Thipsay 2465, New
Delhi, 2010
[ ...Rh2 if Kf3 h4 ]
88) Dmitry Kryakvin 2603 vs Evgeni Janev 2463,
Paracin, 2010
[ ...Rg7+ Kf2 Rg2+ Kd3 f7 ]
89) Black Mates in 3.
Julian Radulski 2592 vs Radoslav Dimitrov 2386,
Blagoevgrad, 2010
[ ...Rd1+ Kf2 e3+ ]
90) Black Mates in 5.
Alexander Graf 2598 vs Martin Zumsande 2413,
Dresden, 2010
[ ...Nf1+ Kh1 Ne3+ Kh2 Ng4+ ]
91) Marcin Dziuba 2586 vs Maciej Rutkowski
2428, Warsaw, 2010
[ ...Be3 ]
92) Jaan Ehlvest 2598 vs Drasko Boskovic 2454,Reykjavik, 2010
[ ...Rg6 if Rd7 Qf6+ Ke1 Qh4+ ]
93) Elshan Moradiabadi 2578 vs Namhai
Battulga 2421, Guanzhou, 2010
[ ...e4 if Kf4 e3 ]
94) Fidel Corrales 2599 vs Jose Fernando Cubas
2463, Figueira da Foz, 2010
[ ...Nc4 if Qc1 Nxe3 w/...d4 ]
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95) Black Mates in 5.
Sipke Ernst 2587 vs Martin Zumsande 2414,
Germany, 2010
[ ...h4+ Kxh4 Qf2+ Bg3 Qxf3 ]
96) Black Mates in 5.
Alexander Fier 2581 vs Sai Krishna 2282,
Bhubaneswar, 2010
[ ...Qg2+ Kxh4 Qh2+ Kg5 Re5+ ]
97) Giorgi Kacheishvili 2587 vs Alec Getz 2239,
Philadelphia, 2010
[ ...Rxd6 if exd6 Qf6+ mates ]
98) Robert Hess 2578 vs Salvijus Bercys 2420,
Philadelphia, 2010
[ ...f4 ]
99) Black Mates in 6.
Alexander Evdokimov 2564 vs David
Gochelashvili 2447, Moscow, 2010
[ ...g3 if Kg1 Be4 ]
100) Rainer Buhmann 2563 - Jorge Viterbo
Ferreira 1902, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2010
[ ...Ng3+ hxg3 Bxg4 if Ra3 Bb4 w/...Bc5 mates ]
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