1. Black to win (Category Easy)
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2. White to play and win (Category Easy)
Showing posts with label chess annotations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chess annotations. Show all posts
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Critical moment: are you up to the task ?
White to play
How would you assess your chances with White here ? Black just played ..Qf4
Several candidate moves here. Analyze well ! ( Difficult )
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Round 7 at Amber : Tactics !
Radjabov-Kamsky, Amber Blindfold (7)
White to play a strong move !
17.?Leko-Morozevich , Amber Rapid (7)
White to play and win (easy!)
40.?
Tournament Standings :
Anand to face Kramnik tomorrow in a key match, as the two players currently lead the combined tournament at Amber
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
October 07 solutions
10 positions were given in October in previous post. Each puzzle presents a combination played
at Grandmaster level.
Here are the solutions, together with explanations.
Play and Calculalte Well !
Puzzle 1:1. g6! Threatening mate in h8. 1..Bh4 2 Rh4 Kf8 3 Qh8+ Ke7 4 Qg7+ Kd8 5 Rh7 gives a winning attack.
at Grandmaster level.
Here are the solutions, together with explanations.
Play and Calculalte Well !
Puzzle 1:1. g6! Threatening mate in h8. 1..Bh4 2 Rh4 Kf8 3 Qh8+ Ke7 4 Qg7+ Kd8 5 Rh7 gives a winning attack.
(Dvoyris-Benkovic, 2003)
Puzzle 2:1. Rbf6! Black can't take the rook because of mate in h7. 1..Bh3 2 Rh6! is the neat finish. (Kolbasin-Borson, 2007)
Puzzle 3:1..Bg2+! 2 Kg2 Kg5+ 3 Kh1 Rg6 wins easily for Black.
(Vidal-Giorgadze 2007)
Puzzle 4:1. Rg3! 1-0. If Black takes the rook, White has the intermediate check 2Qf8+.
(Motylev-Dreev, 2007)
Puzzle 5:1 Nd5! ed5 2 Bc6+ Qc6 3 Bf6! regains the piece with interest. 3..Rg8 4 Be5 Be5 5 Re5+ Kf8 6 b5! wins ( idea is 6..Qb5 7 Rf7+! with mate, or 6..ab5 7 Qb4+ )
(Fillipov-Kasian , 2007)
Puzzle 6:1Nf6! h6 2 Qh6+ gh6 3 Rg8 #. Nice combination (a la capablanca) by the ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov
(Karpov-Stojanovic, 2007)
Puzzle 7:1 c5! ( obstruction: the move prevents the queen from coming back ) Kg8 2 Ne7+ Re7 3 Bf6! with a winning attack.
(Van Wely-Jakovenko, 2007)Puzzle 2:1. Rbf6! Black can't take the rook because of mate in h7. 1..Bh3 2 Rh6! is the neat finish. (Kolbasin-Borson, 2007)
Puzzle 3:1..Bg2+! 2 Kg2 Kg5+ 3 Kh1 Rg6 wins easily for Black.
(Vidal-Giorgadze 2007)
Puzzle 4:1. Rg3! 1-0. If Black takes the rook, White has the intermediate check 2Qf8+.
(Motylev-Dreev, 2007)
Puzzle 5:1 Nd5! ed5 2 Bc6+ Qc6 3 Bf6! regains the piece with interest. 3..Rg8 4 Be5 Be5 5 Re5+ Kf8 6 b5! wins ( idea is 6..Qb5 7 Rf7+! with mate, or 6..ab5 7 Qb4+ )
(Fillipov-Kasian , 2007)
Puzzle 6:1Nf6! h6 2 Qh6+ gh6 3 Rg8 #. Nice combination (a la capablanca) by the ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov
(Karpov-Stojanovic, 2007)
Puzzle 7:1 c5! ( obstruction: the move prevents the queen from coming back ) Kg8 2 Ne7+ Re7 3 Bf6! with a winning attack.
Puzzle 8: 1Bh7+! Kh7 2 Ng5+ Kg8 3 Qe6+ Kh8 4 Qh3!+ and on ..Qh6, White exchanges the queens and plays Ne6 winning the exchange. Classic theme !
(Sokolov,A-Stucki, 2007)
Puzzle 9: 1Nb7 Qb7 2 Na5! Overloading : White gains material on every reply.
(Kveynis-Lapinsky, 2007)Puzzle 10: 1c6! bc6 2 Rb1 Qa3 3 Rb8+ Kd7 4 Nb4! Obstruction : 5.Qd6 is a deadly threat. Nice attack started by opening lines.
(Jobava-Khamrakulov, 2007)Saturday, August 4, 2007
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