5 X Ray Puzzles you need to solve
Hi chess friends. It has been a tough week. I was playing a tournament; also working in lessons.... But everything was really good, and even when I didn’t have too much free time, I could manage it and here we have our weekly post. This time we are going to talk about X Ray. I selected 5 special positions to better understand this interesting tactical theme.
About my tournament, it was a really good experience. I did 3.5/5 as first board of my team “Artemisa University”, and had a nice 2446 performance. My team was 6th in the initial ranking, and we finished in a good 5th place, beating in the last match to the first place of the tournament (which had won all of the 6 previous matches). I’m planning to post some positions from this competition very soon. In 12 days “Capablanca Memorial” begins in Havana, and this was a great opportunity to get ready for the most important tournament I have in the year.
Coming back to our theme: We talk about X Ray, when one of our pieces is controlling some square even when there is some enemy piece in the middle. Let’s see some examples. I encourage you to try to find the solutions for some minutes.
In this video you can find variations and explanations for 5 selected diagrams.
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** (Right click in the question mark (?) to see the solutions, also it’s all explained in the video)
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