16th day's checkmate puzzles, coaching exercises

16th day's checkmate puzzles, coaching exercises

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Today morning I started the chess day with a coaching session with Jan, a student from Prague.

We studied typical sicilian tactics. I share a few with you:

Then I solved 60 checkmate puzzles LIVE on my channel at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo

Can you solve these puzzles?

You can solve all 60 checkmate puzzles with me in this video:





After the puzzles I had a coaching session with Kevin, where we analysed the games he played in the tourney yesterday. We run a tourney in the Solymar Chess Club yesterday where 15 players played over the board and 2 players from the United States joined online and their opponent's played online.


A few possibilities:

After the coaching I played in the Titled Tuesday where I got 6 points and went over 2500.
In the 2nd round I played a pretty good game in the sicilian defense. I used well the dark squares to penetrate and finished with a simple tactic:

You can watch all the games with my commentary:

After the tourney I had the final coaching session of the day with Jeff, the other student who played online in our Club tourney.  He had 2 big possibilities:

Would you like to improve your chess?
You can read about my coaching philosophy and methods at https://www.chess.com/article/view/coach-of-the-month-im-attila-turzo
You can email me about lessons at attilaturzo@gmail.com

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I use the Chessmood opening courses:

1.e4 with white

Accelerated dragon with black

Benko-gambit with black