Puzzle 1, white to move wins: Study by A. A. Troitzki If you set up this position, an engine can’t solve it: See the end of this blog post for the solution. I decided to make my own version of this puzzle. But, it’s not very easy to make a...
This is the weekly puzzle of week 43 (2015) with a tactic in a game played at the 31st European Club Cup, this game was between Daniil Dubov and Chao Li. Black to move wins
This week, week 41 in 2015, there are two puzzles, both tactics are played at the Poikovsky tournament 2015 (click to see the live games on chess24.com) in round 4. Puzzle 1, white to move wins: Puzzle 2, white to move wins:
This game was recently played at the Lev Gutman 70th Birthday Jubilee Tournament between GM Aleksandr Karpatchev and IM Thorben Koop. The end of this game was an interesting same colored bishop endgame. White to move, which move needs white to...
This is the weekly puzzle of week 40, with a brilliant move on the 40th move by Anish Giri. White to move wins:
This is the weekly puzzle of week 39, with a nice checkmate. Click here to see the weekly puzzle of week 38. Black to move and checkmate in 2:
This game is played at the world chess cup 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan. It had a nice tactic. Click here to see the weekly puzzle of week 37. White to move wins:
This game is played at the FIDE World Chess Cup 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan. This game had a beautiful finish. White to move wins:
This is the weekly puzzle of week 37, 2015. This week: a great checkmate. Click here to see the weekly puzzle of week 36, with a nice trick. White to move and checkmate in 4: A comparable checkmate you can see in this post (second puzzle).
This is the weekly puzzle of week 36, with an endgame puzzle. Click here to see the puzzle of week 35. Do you think you can play tactics played by Mikhail Botvinnik? Then click here! White to move, which knight do we take?
This series is going about tactics played by a worldchampion. Can you solve them? The previous part was going about José Raúl Capablanca. In this part: Mikhail Botvinnik. Botvinnik via Wikipedia Botvinnik was worldchampion in: 1948 - 1957 ...
This is the weekly puzzle of week 35, 2015. Most times, when my puzzle comes from a real game, it is a game played long ago. The game from this puzzle is played yesterday (yesterday on the day this post is posted). Click here to see the weekly puz...
This series is going about puzzles with the theme: attack on the castled king. In part 2 you also saw a few interesting tactics. In this part: real games. Puzzle 1, white to move, how to win? Puzzle 2, white to move, how to win?
This series is going about puzzles with the theme attack on the castled king. In part 1 you saw also a few interesting attacks and sacs. Let’s start with an important attack that is played often in practice. Puzzle 1, white to move and checkm...
This is the weekly puzzle of week 34 2015 with a brilliant move played by Viktor Korchnoi. Click here to see the weekly puzzle of week 33. Black to move and win:
This is a new series: Open the door! In this series you can solve puzzles with the theme attack on the castle. Puzzle 1, white to move and checkmate in 2: Puzzle 2, white to move and checkmate in 4: Part 2 with more interesting attacks and...
This is a great endgame played by Robert James Fischer against William James Lombardy in the US championship 1960. In this tounament Fischer became US champion for fourth time. The game: The puzzle: If you don't see the whole game with commen...
This is the weekly puzzle of week 33, click here to see the puzzle of week 32. Black to move and checkmate in 3:
This series is going about tactics played by a worldchampion, can you solve them? The previous part was going about Robert James Fisher, click here to see the post. This part is going about: José Raúl Capablanca. Capablanca via Wikipedia Cap...
This is the weekly puzzle of week 32 with a triple sacrifice (one declined), click here to see the puzzle of week 31. White to move and checkmate in 7:
The lion: a flexible opening system This post is going about one of my favorite chessopenings: The lion. The lion is invented by Leo Jansen and Jerry van Rekom. First there was only a black lion, later there also came a white lion. The lion-sys...
This is an instructive endgame played by Robert James Fischer (FIDE-rating January 1971: 2740) played in 1971 against Mark Taimanov (FIDE-rating January 1971: 2620), this match was one of the matches played in the quarter final of the candidates t...
This is the weekly puzzle of week 31, click here to see the weekly puzzle of week 30. White to move and win:
Recently I played a blitz game. Later I analyzed the game and I saw I missed an interesting pawn endgame tactic. If you can't see the commentery/continuation after solving the puzzle, then click on the question mark below the diagram. Black to m...
Here are two beautiful checkmates played in a real game, can you find them? Puzzle 1, white to move and checkmate in 3: Puzzle 2, black to move and checkmate in 5:
