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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
4) Vladimir Potkin
vs Amin Tabatabaei
Moscow, 2015
White mates in 2.
White mates in 2.
2) Martijn Dambacher
vs Erald Dervishi
Germany, 2015
5) Dimitri Reinderman
vs Benjamin Bok
Amsterdam, 5/17/2015
White mates in 2.
White mates in 2.
3) Ilya Duzhakov
vs Pavel Martynov
St. Petersburg, 2015
6) Sam Shankland
vs Timur Gareev
Honolulu, 3/22/2015
White mates in 2.
White mates in 2.
7) Hrvoje Stevic
vs Denis Kadric
Sarajevo, 6/1/2015
White mates in 2.
White mates in 3.
8) Maksat Atabayev
vs Muhammad Lutfi Ali
Moscow, 2015
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
9) Tal Baron
vs Asaf Givon
Jerusalem, 2015
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 3.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 5.
White mates in 4.
White mates in 5.
45) Yi Wei vs
Vladimir Potkin
Wijk aan Zee, 1/11/2015
White mates in 4.
White mates in 5.
White mates in 5.
White mates in 5.
White mates in 5.
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#
White mates in 5.
9) 1.Qf5+ g6 2.Qf6
10) 1.h7+
35) 1.f6
24) 1.Ng5
25) 1.Rg8+
27) 1.Nf6+
28) 1.Rxg8+