Monday’s tactics training
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“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.” —Diana Vreeland
TODAY’S TRAINING SESSION!
Unless stated otherwise, White is to move and win in the problems below. These examples of tactics are taking from the games of Grandmaster Natalia Pogonina, and the solutions can be found at the link below. Good luck!
White Mates in 3. Pogonina vs A Kizhikina, Volgograd, 1996
Black to move and win. E Borisova vs Pogonina, Rybinsk, 2001
Pogonina vs Cindy Tsai, Oropesa, 2001
Pogonina vs Sopiko Khukhashvili, Heraklio, 2002
Black to move and win. Viktoria Bashkite vs Pogonina, Halkidiki, 2003
Black to move and win. Meihriban Shukurova vs Pogonina, Istanbul, 2003
Pogonina vs Evgenija Shmirina, Dresden, 2004
Black to move and win. Betul Yildiz vs Pogonina, Dresden, 2004
Pogonina vs Elena Zaiatz, Smolensk, 2007
Pogonina vs Elena Tomilova, Smolensk, 2007
Pogonina vs Irina Sudakova, Sochi, 2007
Pogonina vs I Turova, Sochi, 2006
Pogonina vs Antoaneta Stefanova, Krasnoturinsk, 2007
Pogonina vs Olga Iljushina, Novokuznetsk, 2007
White Mates in 5. Pogonina vs Andrei Kuznesov, Novokuznetsk, 2007
Black to move and win. Ghate Swathi vs Pogonina, Beijing, 2008
Pogonina vs Karina Ambartsumova, Moscow, 2009
White Mates in 4. Pogonina vs Nana Dzagnidze, St. Petersburg, 2009
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Natalia Andreevna Pogonina (born March 9, 1985 in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai) is a Russian chess Woman Grandmaster and member of the Russian chess Olympic team.
Natalia’s website (http://www.pogonina.com/) is one of the most popular chess sites in the world and is a wonderful source of information, humour and chess-culture.
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