Monday’s winning 5-second tactics!
Monday’s Winning 5-sec Tactics
How are you today? Here I present some 12 tactics from the very competitive Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival taking place right now as I write. PGN can be downloaded at the end. Good Luck!
gm Istratescu – fm Anand,Nadar Abu Dhabi 9.8.2018
Black to play and crush!
gm Petrosian,T – im Halvax,G Abu Dhabi 11.8.2018
White to play and crush!
wcm Isha,S – cm Al_Zaabi,S Abu Dhabi 11.8.2018
White to play and crush!
im Ahmad, Al K. – gm Lalith,B Abu Dhabi 12.8.2018
White has a nice fluid game. All of his pieces are well placed. How should he proceed?
Daneshvar,B – im Ikeda,J Abu Dhabi 11.8.2018
Black to play and crush!
gm Korobov – gm Adly Abu Dhabi 11.8.2018
White to play and crush!
gm Korobov – fm Mithil,A Abu Dhabi 7.8.2018
Black seems to be holding thanks to White’s weak backrank. But there is a cute tactic in the position. White to play and crush!
im Dimakiling – gm Lalith,B Abu Dhabi 11.8.2018
White has a nice attacking position at the cost of only a pawn. White to play and crush!
wgm Kulkarni – gm Salem, AR Abu Dhabi 8.8.2018
A tough game for both sides. White’s King is defended only by a Bishop, and that gives Black a chance. Not now Qh7 because of Qg3 defending everything. How should Black play?
gm Salem,AR – gm Le Quang Abu Dhabi 13.8.2018
Once more the theme of defender’s Queen being far from his majesty. White to play and crush!
fm Jeet,J – fm Kigigha,B Abu Dhabi 13.8.2018
White to play and win material!
im Sadhwani, R – Patil,P Abu Dhabi 11.8.2018
Having sacrificed an exchange earlier, White is doing very well. He wants to play g4 to develop his initative, but Black will get counterplay along the b-file after capturing on c5. So how should White play?
How did you do? You can download the pgn HERE