Wednesday, May 6, 2009

U.S Grandmasters (Tactical Quiz)

Special Tactical Quiz from U.S grandmasters participating in the upcoming 2009 U.S Championship ( http://www.uschess.org )


GM Hikaru Nakamura
I-Nemeth-Nakamura 2009
Black to play and win


II-Nakamura-Mikhalevsky 2007
White to play and win


GM Gata Kamsky

III-Kamsky-Bacrot 2007
White to play and win


IV-Kamsky-Krai 2007
White to play and win


GM Alexander Shabalov

V-Shabalov-Arenas 2008
White to play and win



VI-Izoria-Shabalov 2007
Black to play and win



4 comments:

Indigestion said...

Black plays Rxc1+ simplifying into a rook vs Bishop ending which should be fairly comfortable to win.

chess_planet said...

Hi, If you meant Queen takes c1+ in the diagram VI, then you are spot on.

VI 1..Qxc1+ 2Bc1 Rf3 wins the exchange as you wrote.

Simple but effective.

5 more diagrams to solve though !

Anonymous said...

V. 1.Rxd7 with the ideea 1..Rxd7; 2. Qb8+, Bf8 3. Bh6!

chess_planet said...

Yep for Puzzle V.
1 Rd7! wins as indicated in the previous post.

Well played !