Hybrid international tourney in Solymar, checkmate and tactics puzzles

IM AttilaTurzo

Updated: Feb 6, 2024, 10:07 PM | 6

Gabor Szabo with white against Ben Giles

Yesterday, on Monday we ran a hybrid international tournament. Kevin Smith from the US and Kim Kaspersen from Norway joined online to the tourney. Ben Giles from New Zealand won all 6 games and got 1st place. Gabor Szabo, the best local player from Solymar got the 2nd place. We got a 4 players tie on 3rd place, Istvan Metzger, Kim Kaspersen, Kevin Smith and Imre Dorogi.

The final result:

1	Ben Giles	6,0
2	Szabó Gábor	5,0
3	Metzger István	4,0
4	Kaspersen Kim	4,0
5	Smith Kevin	4,0
6	Dorogi Imre	4,0
7	Krupp Márton	3,0
8	Hajdú Balázs	3,0
9	Dr. Für László	3,0
10	Béda László	3,0
11	Háber Zoltán	1,0
12	Sax Albert	1,0
13	Pásztor Tamás	1,0

Today early morning I solved 15 checkmate puzzles. I started to enjoy the puzzles. Looks like my brain started to adapt to the challenge and I can find the solutions easier.

You can solve with puzzles with me in this video:

A few interesting exercises:

Then I had a coaching session with a belgian student. I suggested him to study a great course about the fundamentals:

Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

After the coaching I solved 60 relative easy tactics puzzles. You can solve them with me in this video:

I share a few of them:

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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