By GM Kevin Spraggett, Canada.
Best FIDE rating: 2633
Kevin's blog (parental advisory)
Never confuse movement with action.
― Ernest Hemingway
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IM Von Herman, Ulf
GM Handke, Florian
The Bundesliga this past weekend! Position after Blacks 23rd move (23Bd6?!) Black thinks that White had overlooked the Bishop skewer, but he is in for a big surprise.
WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!
GM Libiszewski, Fabien
IM Renner, Christoph
Also this weekends Bundesliga. Position before Blacks 33rd move. Clearly Black must be much better, but not all roads lead to Rome. One such mistaken continuation would be the attractive looking 33Bxe3?! as after 34.Rf1! it is Black that has to try to save himself!
BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN!
Shyam, Sundar M
Tran, Quoc Dung
4th HD Bank Cup Ho Chi Minh City 2014.3.12 Position before Blacks 23rd move. Ofcourse Black stands better, Whites pieces uncoordinated. But the key to the position is the Black Bishop-pair: in such Benoni/Kings Indian positions the Bishop-pair rule like a lion in the jungle.
HOW DOES BLACK EXPLOIT THIS?
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Pham, Le Thao Nguyen
Hoang, Thi Bao Tram
4th HD Bank Cup Ho Chi Minh City 2014.3.13 A tough positional struggle is in progress. White has a slightly weaker pawn structure, but his pieces stand more active. The outcome is anyones guess
CAN BLACK TAKE THE E-PAWN?
Pham, Le Thao Nguyen
GM Ni, Hua
4th HD Bank Cup Ho Chi Minh City 2014.3.12 Position after 14 moves of play. Blacks last move was the logical looking 14Na5, trying to probe the Queenside. What follows next must have come to a complete surprise to Black, as well as to all of the spectactors! Definitely one of the most brilliant concepts that I have seen this year
HOW DOES WHITE GET A BIG EDGE?
Cuenca Jimenez, Jose Fernando
Souleidis, Georgios
HSK GM Hamburg 2014.3.9 Position after 34 moves of play. Despite even material, White has a big advantage: advanced Pawn on the Kingside and actively placed pieces (even the King!). Black on the otherhand, has no play, little coordination and finds himself helpless, relegated to waiting for Whites break-thruhow is your technique today?
HOW DOES WHITE WIN QUICKEST?
Bundesliga Bochum 2014.3.16 Handke, FlorianVon Herman, Ulf: 24.Ra8+! Rb8 (24K-moves 25.Nce5+ etc) 25.Nd6+!! 1-0 The point is that White wins a piece in every line: 25QxN 26.PxN followed by exchanging on b8 and then taking the Bishop on d3; or 25Kd7 26.PxN with a deadly discovered check in the air.
Bundesliga Bochum 2014.3.16 Renner, ChristophLibiszewski, Fabien: 33Bf4!! 34.exf4 Rxf4! (34Rf7 is also good enough) 35.Kh3 g5! And there is no defence to the mating attack. The game ended after a couple of irrelevant moves: 36.Rxe4 dxe4 37.Qb3+ Kh8 0-1
4th HD Bank Cup Ho Chi Minh City 2014.3.12 Tran, Quoc DungShyam, Sundar M: 23 Re3! Sending White into a tailspin. 24.Qd1 (Taking the Rook loses the Queen to Bd4) 24Qh4! 25.Kh1 Rxf4 26.Nb6 Rd4! 0-1 Nothing to do with the coming Be5
4th HD Bank Cup Ho Chi Minh City 2014.3.13 Hoang, Thi Bao TramPham, Le Thao Nguyen: 28 Kxe5?? 29.Rxd8 1-0 After 29RxR 30.Re1+ wins a Rook no matter where Black moves his King.
4th HD Bank Cup Ho Chi Minh City 2014.3.12 Ni, HuaPham, Le Thao Nguyen: 15.Nxd5!! Brilliant and well calculated. 15 exd5 ( No better is 15Bc6 16.Nxe7 Qxe7 17.Rc3 and White has an extra pawn) 16.e6! (The first point; White threatens the Bishop and Bc7) 16 Bc6 17.exf7+ Kxf7 18.Ne5+! The second point: White has a winning attack. The game concluded 18 Kf6 ( 18Ke8 19.Qe2 ) ( 18Kg7 19.Bh6+ Kf6 20.Qf4 ) 19.Rfe1 Be8 20.Nf3 ( 20.Bh6 is even faster ) Nc6 21.Ng5 Rxg5 22.Bxg5+ Kg7 23.Rxe7+ Nxe7 24.Re1 Bf7 25.Rxe7 Qb6 26.Qe3 Kg8 27.h4 Rc8 28.h5 Qc6 29.Qg3 Kf8 30.Qe5 Kg8 31.Qxf5 Rf8 32.Bf6 Qc1+ 33.Kh2 1-0
HSK GM Hamburg 2014.3.9 Souleidis, GeorgiosCuenca Jimenez, Jose Fernando: 35.Rxc8!! Rxc8 36.Rxc8 Kxc8 37.f6! The whole point! The pawn is unstoppable. The game concluded 37 Rg8 38.f7 Rf8 39.Kf5 b5 40.Kf6 a5 1-0
Other posts by GM Kevin Spraggett:
5-second Chess Tactics
Monday Tactics: Oldies
5-second Tactics from London Chess Classic
Tactics from World Chess Team Championship
5-second tactics from St. Louis
GM Bacrot vs. GM Aronian: a Remarkable Turnaround
Today's 5-seconds Tactics
Winning tactics
5-second tactics
Joauquim Durao: Portuguese Chess Legend
Chigorin Memorial 5-second tactics
Play it again, Sam
Time controls, Frank Marshal and Nuremberg 1906
World Junior Concludes
Capablanca's Final Advice
Chess Thriller: GM Moskalenko vs. GM Vallejo Pons
5-second tactics
Friday 5-second tactics
Happy 70th birthday to GM Kavalek
Today's Insight into Chess
Tactical workout-2
Tactical workout
Knight-mares
6-time Portuguese Chess Champion Rui Damaso's Chess Brilliancies
Ode to the Kings's Gambit
Good news for old chess players
Lothar Schmid
Chess un-plugged!
Deceptively simple chess
Erich Eliskases
Robert Byrne
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