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Questions relating to maneuvers that take advantage of short-term opportunities, such as forks, discovered attacks, skewers, etc.

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Chess challenge #3: Pinned knights

I took this problem from the Chess Tactics Server. I hope this takes more time to be solved than the previous one. EDIT: …
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3 votes
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Chess tactics #4: Black to play and win

This problem is taken again from the Chess Tactics Server. …
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3 votes
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Chess tactics #5: Yugra Governor's cup

I took this position from a game that has been played today at the Yugra Governor's Cup between GM Aleksej Aleksandrov from Belarus and GM Ivan Bukavshin from Russia. White (Aleksandrov) has just play …
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Chess tactics #6: Yugra Governor's cup again

The one that I posted yesterday Chess tactics #5: Yugra Governor's cup wasn't the only blunder that happened yesterday in this tournament. …
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Chess challenge #7: Women's European Team Championship

In the recent Women's European Team Championship Anna Muzychuk won a quick game against Almira Skripchenko. [fen "r3qrk1/1b3ppp/ppp5/2nBp1N1/P3P3/7P/1PP1QPP1/R2R2K1 w - - 0 1"] Skripchenko has just …
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Tactical challenge #2 - Attacking the kingside

[FEN "r3brk1/pp3pp1/1qn4p/3B4/8/P1R2N2/1PQ2PPP/3R2K1 w - - 0 1"] I saw this puzzle from Chess24 Tactics Trainer and I liked it, so I decided to post it here. …
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Chess challenge #8: British knockout championship

The British Knockout championship is taking place now as a warm-up to the London Chess Classic that starts this Friday. There have been very interesting games (especially the ones played by Nicholas P …
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