GM tactic weapons: World Cup Edition

Black to play and win !

In this position, Mamyedarov with the black pieces uncorked a nice move using a tactical motif against the White king.
Can you guess the key move&theme Black used here ?

Tactics in the Spanish

White to play and win !

Difficulty: Medium

Tactic puzzle of the day

Black to play and win !

Hint: This exercize is about tactical vision, finding the right idea, not about calculating complex and long variations. Assess where Black has the advantage and evaluate how to make progress.
With the black pieces is a very talented british GM (not Adams, not Short) against a very talented and younger american GM.

Grandmaster tactics: World Blitz edition

White (Current World Champion Anand) wrapped up his blitz Game against GM Ktachiev in one move here.

1.? White to play and win

Tactical Fireworks !

White to play and win

Tactical link of the day

Twenty tactical positions (with annotated solutions) from famous russian chess trainer Dvoresty :

http://www.chesscafe.com/dvoretsky/dvoretsky.htm


Other links to practice chess tactics (with solutions, but no qualitative explanations):

http://www.shredderchess.com/daily-chess-puzzle.html

http://www.chesstempo.com

Morra Gambit in practice

The Morra gambit (from the player from my hometown Nice,France Pierre Morra who studied and played it) is still a dangerous weapon against the Sicilian.

Classic 1:1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 e6 6.Bc4 d6 7. Qe2 a6 8. O-O Be7 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. Bf4 Ne5? 11. Bxe5 dxe5 12. Rac1!Qb8

White to play and seize the initiative !

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Classic2:1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7. Bf4 a6 8. O-O Nf6 9. Qe2 Be7 10. Rfd1 Qc7 11. Rac1 O-O 12. Bb3 Rd8

White to play for the initiative (Position 2)

Eventually, the position above evolved in the following :

Position 3: White to play and win

( Matulovic-Panatopoulos 1965)

Wch game