Tactics training: 2022 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship - Round 4

 2022 Daily Chess Championship - Round 4 

Good Morning Chess Players!

Only 28 of the 33,633 players remain in the competition for the 2022 Daily Championship. This time I decided to use the built-in debut book and unfortunately did not do well at it. In many games, the positions I got after the start of the game did not give me a chance to win. Even when playing white, I rarely managed to get even a slight advantage.

And the first time I slept through my move. In two games I did not manage to make a move in 24 hours and lost them on time. With both players with whom I lost a point in this way, I was able to win the rematch game. On the other hand, exceeding the time limit meant that in the remaining games I made moves practically immediately, making the subsequent games worse. So I lost my chance to be promoted to the final (just 3 players) irretrievably.

As usual, when playing daily games, many interesting combinations arise. I have collected them in this post. The difficulty level of the tasks varies greatly. I didn't sort them from easiest to hardest.

Of course you can share your opinion in comments section and inform how many puzzles you have managed to solve. 

Below there are 7 of the best puzzles from my games, so let's focus on the chessboard:

Puzzle #1 Find the best move to get a slight advantage.

Puzzle #2 Find winning tactics. Don't worry about Knights. 

Puzzle #3 Find a way to win black Queen and game.  

Puzzle #4 Everything is winning but find the fastest way.

Puzzle #5 Find winning move.

Puzzle #6 Great move and spectacular checkmate.

Puzzle #7 Black to move how to win.

These are all the interesting puzzles that I wanted to share with you.

Overall, I am not satisfied with the results I achieved in this round. I ended up in the middle of the table losing quite a lot in my ranking.

The next edition of 2023 starts in a few months, I encourage you to take part.