March 1999		These puzzles are from Chess Life Magazine from a column called Key Krackers by David L. Brown. If you click on the image of each puzzle it will bring up a slightly larger image that is more readable. If you have Zillions, click on the text link to download a Zillions Saved Game of that puzzle.
For Direct Mates, it is white's turn and white is to mate black. For Help Mates, it is black's turn, and both sides are trying to get white to mate black.

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1706 G.J. Slater	1707 Herbert Ahues	1708 Cornelius Groeneveld
1st Pr. Lebanon Herald 1882	2nd Pr. Schach-Echo 1960	3rd Pr. Probleemblad 1984
Mate in Two	Mate in Two	Mate in Two
1709 Cor Goldschmeding	1710 Vincent L. Eaton	1711 Thomas & Joseph Warton
1st Pr. Die Schwalbe TT 1984	Limburgsch Dagblad	1st Pr. BCF 1945
Mate in Two	Mate in Two	Mate in Three
1712 Isaac Loyd	1713 Josif Kricheli	1714 Milan Vukevich
Frank Leslie's 1856	3rd HM Breuer Mem. 1984	1st Pr. USPB 1985
Mate in Five	Mate in Nine	Helpmate in Two (Two sols.)
1715 Toma Garai	1716 Yakov Cvetkov	1717 William Anderson
2nd Pr. Levelezesi Sakk. 1985	1st Pr. Probleemblad 1984	2nd Pr. USPB 1984
Helpmate in Two (Two sols.)	Helpmate in Two (Two sols.)	Helpmate in Four (Three sols.)

I have not posted the solutions, because it is too easy to look at the answers and say, "that wasn't so tough". These are some challenging puzzles, but they are usually worth the effort.

Zillions is a really cool program which you can find out all about at:
http://www.zillions-of-games.com
Once you have the game, you can download these saved games (puzzles) and play them through. However, these puzzles are rather difficult, and Zillions' search engine does not often find the shortest solution.

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