Today’s 5-second tactics!
“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since “the rest of your life” won’t last forever.”
― Omar Khayyám, Quatrains – Ballades
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gm Libiszewski, Fabien
Van Den Bersselaar, Jeroen
BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN!
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Olsen, Miriam F:
wim Abdumalik, Zhansaya
WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!
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13-year old Zhansaya Abdumalik is Kazahkstan’s top female player! I played against her in the Gibraltar super-open and was lucky to win! At one pont she could have taken a three-fold repetition but declined! Earlier in January she defeated Karpov in a Blitz game! A name to remember: she has a great future in competitive chess!
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Gibraltar Masters 2014.1.28 Van Den Bersselaar, Jeroen–Libiszewski, Fabien: 22…Nxg3! Drawing out the King 23.Kxg3 exf4+ 24.Kxf4?! Be5+!! Now it is a forced mate! 25.Kxe5 Qg7+ 26.Kd6 Rad8+ 27.Kxe6 Rde8+ 28.Kd6 Qe7# 0-1
Gibraltar Masters 2014.1.28 Abdumalik, Zhansaya–Olsen, Miriam F: 20.fxg6 hxg6 ( Changing nothing is 20…fxg6 21.Bc4+ Kh8 22.Rf7 h5 23.Rxe7! Nxe7 24.Bf7 etc ) 21.Rxf7!! Nf8 Taking the Rook gets mated also. 22.Rxf8+ (22.Bc4!) 22… Rxf8 23.Bc4+ Kg7?! It is hopeless in anycase 24.Qh6# 1-0