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Outstanding Chess Tactics!

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This website has its own tactical problems / tactical trainer. 

I find many of the problems to be stupid and boring (vulgar!) and only about winning material. Additionally, no credit is given if you find a winning line, but not the one chosen by the creator. (Whomever that is.) 

However, once in a while, you see a tactics problem that is really outstanding. I thought I would make a blog to memorialize the best of the best! evil.png 

#1.) Go for mate! (#28681) 

This problem comes from an opening that I studied many years ago. (Max Lange Attack.) 

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This comes from a real game. (Kazic vs. Vukovic, Yugoslavia, 1940.) 

A real winner! 

#2.) Always check ... it might be mate?!? (#39807) 

This is a problem ... as best as I have been able to determine ... it was actually a composition by the player, Phillipe Stamma. (1st position, below.) 

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Black plays 1...QxP/h5.  [Now it is: "White to move - and win." (See the position, below.)]  

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A really nice problem, especially considering when it was created. (It also teaches the value of examining checks ... that - at first glance - appear to be nothing more than a "spite check.") 

Stay tuned for more problems!