Monday’s winning 5-second tactics
Winning 5-second tactics!
Good Monday morning! Here are 12 tactical exercises, all taken from the Isle of Man (IOM) tournament that just concluded last week. Some are easy, some are difficult. You decide! The pgn can be downloaded at the end of the article. Good luck! (Photo courtesy of Saunders)

Yankelevich,L – Rathnakaran,K
IOM 25.9.2017Black to play and win!

Babar,M – Eggleston,D
IOM 26.9.2017Black to play and win!

gm Sutovsky,E – Yoo, C.W
IOM 23.9.2017White to play and win!


Kojima,S – Dahl,B
IOM 23.9.2017White to play and win!

gm Grandelius – Zatonskih,A
IOM 24.9.2017White to play and win!

gm Gelfand,B – Fischer,D
IOM 24.9.2017White to play and win!


Burrows,M – gm Akobian,V
IOM 25.9.2017Black to play and win!

Mai,A.T – Kavutskiy,K
IOM 26.9.2017Black to play and win!

Zumsande,M – gm Vidit,S
IOM 24.9.2017Black to play and win!


Zatonskih,A – Babar,M
IOM 25.9.2017White to play and win!

gm Caruana,F – gm Jones,G
IOM 29.9.2017White to play and win!

gm Caruana,F – gm Carlsen,M
IOM 30.9.2017Black to play and win!

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