2015

wtharvey.com Bill Harvey

53 MATES OF THE

YEARS FIRST

HALF This collection of puzzles is taken from

OTB chess games where both players

are FIDE rated 2450 or higher. Its

Whites move. Solutions are found at

the end of the pamphlet. Bill Harvey is

the webmaster of wtharvey.com where

you will find 10,000 chess puzzles from

historic and modern games. He has

published 4 books with Mongoose

Press. Away from the board, he

catalogs music for a major US library.

1) Piotr Brodowski vs Zbynek Hracek Trzcianka, 2015

White mates in 2.

2) Martijn Dambacher

vs Erald Dervishi Germany, 2015

White mates in 2.

3) Ilya Duzhakov

vs Pavel Martynov St. Petersburg, 2015

White mates in 2.

4) Vladimir Potkin vs Amin Tabatabaei

Moscow, 2015

White mates in 2.

5) Dimitri Reinderman

vs Benjamin Bok Amsterdam, 5/17/2015

White mates in 2.

6) Sam Shankland vs Timur Gareev

Honolulu, 3/22/2015

White mates in 2.

7) Hrvoje Stevic vs Denis Kadric

Sarajevo, 6/1/2015

White mates in 2.

8) Maksat Atabayev

vs Muhammad Lutfi Ali Moscow, 2015

White mates in 3.

9) Tal Baron

vs Asaf Givon Jerusalem, 2015

White mates in 3.

10) Dmitry Bocharov vs Rakhim Pasiev

Sochi, 2015

White mates in 3.

11) Dmitry Bocharov vs Alexey Mokshanov

Sochi, 2015

White mates in 3.

12) Benjamin Bok vs Liafbern Riemersma Netherlands, 2015

White mates in 3.

13) Emre Can vs Luka Draskovic

Jerusalem, 2015

White mates in 3.

14) Boris Chatalbashev

vs Luca Moroni Lugano, 2015

White mates in 3.

15) Jose Fernando Cubas

vs Kevin Paveto Florianopolis, 2015

White mates in 3.

16) Evgeny Gleizerov vs Michal Krasenkow

Yurmala, 2015

White mates in 3.

17) Valentina Gunina

vs Zhansaya Abdumalik Chengdu, 2015

White mates in 3.

18) Stelios Halkias

vs Misa Pap Bad Woerishofen, 2015

White mates in 3.

19) Aleksandar Indjic vs Jha Sriram Lienz, 2015

White mates in 3.

20) Alex Lenderman

vs Samy Shoker Tsaghkadzor, 2015

White mates in 3.

21) Quentin Loiseau

vs Igor Naumkin Lille, 2015

White mates in 3.

22) Pavel Maletin vs Ivan Popov

St. Petersburg, 2015

White mates in 3.

23) Rauf Mamedov vs Stanislav Bogdanovich

Moscow, 2015

White mates in 3.

24) Tamir Nabaty vs Quinten Ducarmon

Gibraltar, 2015

White mates in 3.

25) David Navara vs Bart Michiels

Wijk aan Zee, 2015

White mates in 3.

26) Bartosz Socko vs Sabino Brunello

Civitanova Marche, 5/1/2015

White mates in 3.

27) Titas Stremavicius

vs Tomas Laurusas Kaunas, 4/25/2015

White mates in 3.

28) Hans Tikkanen vs Fabrizio Bellia

Stockholm, 1/2/2015

White mates in 3.

29) Kesav Viswanadha

vs Andrey Stukopin Brownsville, 3/7/2015

White mates in 3.

30) Dmitry Andreikin vs Maksim Chigaev

Sochi, 2015

White mates in 4.

31) Alexander Areshchenko vs Andreas Schenk

Germany, 2015

White mates in 4.

32) Matthias Bluebaum

vs Dmitrij Kollars Bad Zwischenahn, 2015

White mates in 4.

33) Lukas Cernousek

vs Milan Pacher Vienna, 2015

White mates in 4.

34) Mikhail Kobalia vs Ivan Rozum

St. Petersburg, 2015

White mates in 4.

35) Anton Korobov

vs Boris Kharchenko Moscow, 2015

White mates in 4.

36) Miles Perunovic vs Roland Loetscher

Austria, 2015

White mates in 4.

37) Gil Popilski vs Eylon Nakar

Israel, 2015

White mates in 4.

38) Ivan Popov vs Van Huy Nguyen New Delhi, 2015

White mates in 4.

39) Richard Rapport

vs Ottomar Ladva Yurmala, 3/7/2015

White mates in 4.

40) Ivan Sarenac vs Boban Bogosavljevic

Belgrade, 5/30/2015

White mates in 4.

41) Deep Sengupta

vs Ruiyuan Yu Golden Sands, 6/16/2015

White mates in 4.

42) Francisco Vallejo Pons vs Angel Espinosa Aranda

Madrid, 5/9/2015

White mates in 4.

43) Renier Vazquez vs Erik Blomqvist

Cappelle la Grande, 3/2/2015

White mates in 4.

44) Prasanna Vishnu

vs Emil Sutovsky Gibraltar, 1/28/2015

White mates in 4.

45) Yi Wei vs

Vladimir Potkin Wijk aan Zee, 1/11/2015

White mates in 4.

46) Ivan Bukavshin vs Ernesto Inarkiev

Moscow, 2015

White mates in 5.

47) Slavko Cicak vs

Christian Jepson Sweden, 2015

White mates in 5.

48) Dmitry Gordievsky

vs Eduard Khatoev Loo, 2015

White mates in 5.

49) Richard Rapport vs Aryan Tari

Gibraltar, 1/28/2015

White mates in 5.

50) Vitaly Sivuk

vs Elbek Alikulov Voronezh, 6/16/2015

White mates in 5.

51) Adam Tukhaev vs Nikita Maiorov

Voronezh, 6/18/2015

White mates in 5.

52) Robin Van Kampen vs Pontus Carlsson,

Reykjavik, 3/20/2015

White mates in 5.

53) Pavel Eljanov vs

Evgeny Romano Jerusalem, 2015

White mates in 6.

Solutions:

1) 1.Qg6+ 2) 1.Rxe8+ 3) 1.Nh6+ 4) 1.Nf4+ exf4 2.Bd5# 5) 1.Rxf8+ 6) 1.Qh8+ Ke7 2.Nf5# 7) 1.Rc8+ Ke7 2.Nc6#

8) 1.Qe7+ Bf7 2.Qf8+ 9) 1.Qf5+ g6 2.Qf6 10) 1.h7+ 11) 1.Qb5+ Kc7 2.Qb7+ 12) 1.Qf8+ Kxf8 2.Bd6+ 13) 1.Bd2+ Ka3 2.Bc3 14) 1.Bxf7+ if 1Kh7 2.Bg6+ 15) 1.Nf8+ Kh8 2.Qh7+ 16) 1.Qh8+ Kf7 2.Bh5+ 17) 1.Nxg6+ if 1Kg7 2.Qxf7+ 18) 1.Nf6+ if 1Kf8 2.Qh7 19) 1.Qd8 Re7 2.hxg5 20) 1.Rfxf7 if 1Kh8 2.Ng6+ 21) 1.Rb8+ if 1Kh7 2.Be4# 22) 1.Be4+ Kg8 2.Qb3+ 23) 1.Rg7+ Kh6 2.Nf5+ 24) 1.Ng5 25) 1.Rg8+ 26) 1.Qg7+ if 1Kh5 2.Qxf7+ 27) 1.Nf6+ 28) 1.Rxg8+ 29) 1.Rh3+ if 1Kg2 2.Qxg4+ 30) 1.Rxf6+ if 1Kxe7 2.Qd6+ 31) 1.Rf8+ Kg7 2.Rg8+

32) 1.Rxd7 Qxd7 2.Bb3+ 33) 1.Nxa7+ Qxa7 2.Rxc6+ 34) 1.Qg5+ Kd7 2.Rf7+ 35) 1.f6 36) 1.Qh4+ Kg7 2.Bh6+ 37) 1.Nd5+ if 1Kd6 2.Rb6+ or if 1Kf8 2.Bh5+ 38) 1.Qa4+ if 1b5 2.Qa6+ 3.Rb6 Qc8+ or if 1Kd6 2.Rd7+ Ke5 3.Qd4+ 39) 1.Rc5+ Kxd4 2.Nf3+ Ke4 3.Rc4+ 40) 1.Rxh7+ Kxh7 2.Rh1+ Bh6 3.Qf7+ 41) 1.Qc5+ Kg8 2.Qxg5+ 42) 1.Bb5+ Kf7 2.Qg6+ 43) 1.Rxa6 if 1bxc6 2.Rb8+ 44) 1.Bg7+ Kg6 2.f5+ if 2exf5 3.Be5+ or if 2Kg5 3.Be5+ 45) 1.Rxg6+ if 1Kd7 2.Qxe7+ 46) 1.Nf6+ if 1Kf8 2.Rh8+ or if 1Qxf6 2.exf6 47) 1.Qf5+ if 1Kb8 2.Rd8+ 48) 1.Qh4+ Kg7 2.Nd5+ 49) 1.Rh7 w/2.Qh6 50) 1.Re8+ Kh7 2.Bd3+ Kh6 3.Re6+ 51) 1.Qxe5 if 1dxe5 2.Rd1+ Qd6 3.Rxd6# 52) 1.Rxh7+ Kxh7 2.Rh4+ Kg8 3.Bxf7+ 53) 1.Nf6 if 1Nxg1 2.Nxh7 Rb8 3.Nf8+ or if 1Rxf6 2.Qxf6+