Thursday’s winning 5-sec tactics

Thursday’s winning 5-sec tactics!

With the passing of chess-great Mark Taimanov at age 90 earlier this week, I have decided to present readers with some of his tactical victories over the years. As his career was so long, it will be necessary to spread this feature over a number of parts. Today I present PART I. Good luck!

Readers can download the pgn of these examples here!

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Taimanov M– Tolush A

White to play and win!

Taimanov M– Gravseth T

White to play and win!

Taimanov – Polugaevsky

White to play and win!

Taimanov M– Ostojic P

White to play and win!

Taimanov – Vorotnikov

Black to play and win!

Taimanov M– Cordovil J

White to play and win!

Suetin A– Taimanov,M

Black to play and crush!

Matanovic A– Taimanov M

Black to play and win!

Nyren B – Taimanov M

Black to play and win!