Saturday’s chess tactics quiz
“In combat – do something, you might die. Do nothing, and you will die!”
― Jury Nel
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Part I: European Individual Championship
(Click on positions below to find out who is to play)
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- Obviously Black is better, and his attack looks dangerous. But you still must find the most energetic way to exploit this advantage. Black to play and CRUSH!
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- White to play and win!
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- Beware the 2-Knights, always! Besides this, all of White’s pieces are active, with open and forward looking positions. White to play and CRUSH!
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- Black has needlessly sacrificed a pawn, but has good chances to recover it later on a2. The problem, however, is that Black is only thinking ‘pawn’, and White is thinking something entirely different! White to play and CRUSH!
—————————— NICELY EXECUTED ATTACK!
The following is a really instructive example of the potential of a fully centralized and dominating piece configuration in the hands of a skilled attacker.
GM Moiseenko,A
GM Kulaots, K
From yesterday’s round in Kosovo. Position after 25 moves. White’s Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop make a fine impression! Not just occupying the central squares, but denying Black the same. The fact that Black is up an unimportant pawn is little consolation for what is about to happen to him…
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- 26.NxN! RxN
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- 27.Qe6!! The key move, threatening Rc8.
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- 27…Bf8 There is nothing better
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- 28.Rc8 Qb1+ 29.Kh2 Qe4!?
30.RxB+!
Winning! After 30…KxR 31.Bh6+ Rg7 32.Qf6+ and Black resigned the next move.
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- Opening Ceremony. Cakes and Beautiful hosts.http://eicc2016.com/Media/Photos
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- Round Two is underway!
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- Tournament Hall from outside
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- Round 1.
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- Moiseenko vs Kulaots (you can only see Kulaots hand)
SOLUTIONS
(The left side examples are odd-numbered; even numbered examples on the right side)