A Perennial Trap Claims Another Victim
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Monday, August 14, 2006
Still More Tactics - A Solution and a Database Supplement
One of the tactics positions offered on Saturday was this one:
It's White to move and win, from the game Rossolimo-Reissman, Puerto Rico (op) 1967. The concluding combination is famous, but the full game score is apparently hard to obtain. Thanks to a recent issue of Chess Today, however, you can not only find the solution here, but the full game score as well.
It's White to move and win, from the game Rossolimo-Reissman, Puerto Rico (op) 1967. The concluding combination is famous, but the full game score is apparently hard to obtain. Thanks to a recent issue of Chess Today, however, you can not only find the solution here, but the full game score as well.
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- Still More Tactics - A Solution and a Database Supplement
- Still More Tactics
Tactics Time: The (Non-) Solution
Saturday, I offered this position and asked what White should do:
The solution - or the lack thereof - is here.
The solution - or the lack thereof - is here.
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- Tactics Time: The (Non-) Solution
- Tactics Time
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Still More Tactics
For some of you this position will be familiar, and for still more the punch-line will evoke a similar coup de grace. What can I say? - it's a beautiful example in any case! I hope you'll enjoy both the "Aha!" of solving and the aesthetics of the combination as well.
White to move, solution in a day or two.
White to move, solution in a day or two.
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- Still More Tactics - A Solution and a Database Supplement
- Still More Tactics
Tactics Time
It's White to move in this tricky little position; what should he do?
Solution in a day or two.
Solution in a day or two.
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- Tactics Time: The (Non-) Solution
- Tactics Time