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Our Chaff Chess Rematch vote chess game has inspired another puzzle session. Easy puzzle first. Most players are aware of the way a bishop can trap a knight against the side of the board. Keep this pattern in mind as you do these puzzles. When you've finished the puzzle click "Move List" to view comments. B v N #1 In this puzzle it appears that the white bishop has managed to become trapped instead. Can you find a resource? Be careful you don't just trade down to a losing king and pawn endgame. http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/b-v-n-discussion

This forum will be devoted to the study of the defence of rook v rook + 1 pawn positions. http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/r-v-r--1p-discussion The position the attacking side (the side with the pawn) is trying to reach is the Lucena Position. The main ideas for defence are: the Philidor Defence Passive Defence (used for rook and knight pawns) Kling & Horwitz Defence (bringing the rook to the rear of the pawn.) Rook on Longside (King on Shortside) Defence Puzzles will be used to demonstrate and memorize specific positions where there is only 1 correct move. For example this position which may arise if the Longside Defence has been made unreachable by the white rook on the a file, so the black rook has come to the rear of the pawn. White threatens to advance the pawn.

Discuss B v N puzzles. Go back to puzzles. http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/b-v-n-endgame-puzzles3

Discuss minor piece tactics here. Go back to Puzzles.

Queen & Rook Tactics Go back to Puzzles. #1 I knew this tactic once - somehow I forgot it.

Discuss R v R + 1P problems here. Go back to problems. http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/r-v-r--1p

Discuss Q v R + R puzzles here Go back to puzzles http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/q-v-r--r

Q v R + R #1 http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/q-v-r--r-discussion

I've swiped these annotated games straight off ChessBase with no other purpose than to remind myself to look them over. They are from the 2013 Candidates Tournament London. Annotated by GM Karsten Muller.

Discuss B v B puzzles here.

Centurini's Position 1856 A same coloured bishop endgame study. This position is analysed in Bernd Rosen's "Chess Endgame Training" I have transcribed it into this diagram in an effort to clarify this mysterious sequence. White's bishop first heads to b8 via a7, but gets prevented by Black's Ka6. Then the white bishop goes to c5 forcing Black to move their bishop. (the king is still trying to prevent Ba7) The black bishop was avoiding deflection moves by the white bishop on the d8-h4 diagonal by camping on h2. Next the manoeuvre Be7-d8 forces the king back to c6 to defend against Bc7. Now the white bishop uses the deflection tactic on the d8-h4 diagonal to force their way through to the g1-a7 diagonal with tempo and so can reach a7 on the next move without the black king stopping it. After white plays Bb8 the black bishop must switch to the g1-a7 diagonal to be able to cover the queening square from a7. Once the black bishop reaches a7 though, it can no longer avoid the deflection move from the white bishop. As Bernd Rosen points out: If the diagonal was one square longer black would be able to avoid the deflection and a draw would result.

Discuss puzzles here to avoid spoiling them for others.

Discuss Q v Q puzzles here. Go back to puzzle. http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/q-v-q

Discuss R v B puzzles here.

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This forum is for tactics trainer links. Just keep editing your first post to add more links.