Today’s 5-second tactics
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Hou, Yifan — Muminova, Nafisa
4th WGP Khanty-Mansiysk 2014.4.14
1.c4 e6 2.g3 d5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Bg2 a6 5.d4 dxc4 6.O-O Nc6 7.Nbd2 Nxd4 8.Nxc4 Bc5 9.Nfe5 O-O 10.Be3 Ba7 11.Rc1 c5 12.Bd2 Nd5 13.e3 Nb5 14.Qe2 Nd6 15.Rfd1 Nxc4 16.Nxc4 b5 17.Ba5 Qe7 18.e4 Nb4 19.Bxb4 cxb4 20.Ne5 Qg5 21.Nc6 e5 22.h4 Qf6 23.b3 a5 24.Rc2 Bb7 25.Nxa7 Rxa7 26.Rc7 Qb6 27.Rdd7 a4 28.Kh2 h6 29.Qe3 Qa6 30.Qc5 axb3
Muminova,Nafisa
gm Hou, Yifan
WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!
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”Not just a pretty face: Yifan Hou, from Beijing, China, is the youngest person ever to win the World Chess Championship The chess prodigy, who started playing tournaments at the age of 11, says she was teased as a young girl for not knowing a lot about fashion, but eventually ‘learned from the older players’. Miss Hou, who first beat her father in a game of chess at the age of three, was announced an ‘exceptional genius’ by the chief of China’s national chess team when she was only nine years old.She was ranked as one of the top ten women in the world by the age of 12 and has remained part of that elite ever since. ” LINK
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Jimenez Almeida, Luis
im Santos Latasa, Jaime
San Sebastian Open this past Sunday. (I am also playing in this tournament. Here is the LINK) . Position after 17 moves of play. Black has unsuspectingly walked into a well known trap…do you see it?
WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!
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gm Akesson, Ralf
Pastor Pons, Pedro Maria
Also from San Sebastian. White has been greedy in the opening and taken a hot pawn. Now , with his King still in the centre, it is time to pay the price!
BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN!
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37 Open Donostia 2014.4.13 Santos Latasa, Jaime–Jimenez Almeida, Luis David: 18.Nxe4 Nxe4 19.Bxe4 dxe4 20.Nh6+ 1-0
37 Open Donostia 2014.4.13 Pastor Pons, Pedro Maria–Akesson, Ralf: 13…Nd4! Not just threatening the check on c2, but if now 14.Rc1 Be6! Is immediately decisive. The game ended quickly after 14.Ne4 Qxe4 15.O-O-O Bf5 16.Bd3 Ne2+ 0-1