Monday’s winning 5-second tactics

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fm Rakesh, Kumar Jena (2164)

Gandhi, Anish (2086)
World Junior Pune 2014.10.11 Position before Black’s 31st move. This is a good definition of ‘cut and thrust’ play! White attacks–simultaneously–the Queen, the Rook on e8 and the Knight on e3: it seems as though White is just going to win!
BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN!
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im Nakar, Eylon (2424)

fm Klein, Felix (2286)
PokerStars IoM Masters ; Douglas 2014.10.11 Position before Black’s 40th move. He has two pawns for the Knight…usually not enough.
HOW CAN BLACK GET A BIG EDGE?
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gm Matamoros Franco, Carlos

gm Naroditsky, Daniel
Millionaire Chess Open Las Vegas 2014.10.11 Position after 37 moves. White has an obvious edge but Black seems to have everything covered. But with pawns like Black’s…you can never be too confident!
WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!
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Mannion, Stephen R

gm Greenfeld, Alon
PokerStars IoM Masters ; Douglas 2014.10.11 Position after 33 moves. White is a pawn up for nothing, but Black does not intend to roll over and die without a fight! He has everything protecting everything else, plus a passed pawn. Your job, if you choose to accept it, is to find the weak link in Black’s game and destroy it!
WHITE TO PLAY AND CRUSH!
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gm Le, Quang Liem (2706)

im Wan, Yunguo (2489)
Millionaire Chess Open Las Vegas 2014.10.9 Position before Black’s 31st move. Black has an obvious positional advantage and the a-pawn is not long for the world. Indicated here is the natural 31…Rd2! INSTEAD, Black played a real LEMON:
31…Bd4?

WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!
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Raja, Harshit (2000)
