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Winning Tactics

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Saturday, 09 November 2013
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By GM Kevin Spraggett, Canada, FIDE 2544
Kevin's blog (parental advisory)

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GM Alsina,D

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GM
Balogh,C


From the recently finished Barcelona Magistral tournament.  Position after 28 moves.  White has a menacing position on the Kingside and for this reason Alsina decided to offer the exchange on e6.  Alsinas idea is that if now 29.BxR PxB he might soon get some threats along the long diagonal with d4 and Qc6.  Atleast White would have to scale back his offensive and Black would still be kicking


HOWEVER, the tournament winner was not willing to surrender the initiative!  He chose another line of attackdo you see it?


WHAT IS WHITES STRONGEST PLAY?


GM
  Shankland,S

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GM  Narciso,M


From the Barcelona Magistral.  Position after Whites  37th move.  Though both sides have problems, the position is drawn with correct play.  The White Queenside is no less  vulnerable than Blacks Kingside.  White can never play Be4 because after the exchange of Bishops Black continues Ke6! with a zugzwang position for Black!

So the best course of play in the present situation is to play 37Ke7 and shuffle his King back and forth on the 2nd rank.  HOWEVER,  probably upset with himself for having spoiled a promising position just several moves earlier, Shankland hurriedly played 37Ke6??

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WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN THE GAME!

GM  Ganguly,S

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GM  Moiseenko,A


Jakarta, October  2013. Position after 21 moves.   Opposite-side castling and the typical fight for the initiative.  Black seems to have everything on the Queeside under control, and he is poised to start active play along the g-fileOFCOURSE, this would be true for the fact that the White Queen has embedded itself in a really strong position!

WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!

SOLUTIONS


Balogh, CsabaAlsina Leal, Daniel:
29.Nxh6+! gxh6 (29RxN 30.BxR PxB 31.Qg4+) 30.Qg4+ Kh8 31.Bxe6 fxe6 32.Qxe6 d4 33.Ra1! Qc6 34.Qxc6 Bxc6 35.e6! and White has an easily won endgame.

Narciso Dublan, MarcShankland, Samuel L:  44.Be4!!  (Now the Exchange of Bs wins for White after 45.KxB Ke7 46.Kd5 and 46.c5) 4Ba2 45.c5! dxc5 46.Bxg6 Bd5 47.Bxh5 Kf5 48.Be8 Bb7 49.Bd7+ Kg6 50.Bg4 Bc6 51.Be6 1-0 (White will continue with c4 and Bd5 followed by the advance of the King.

Moiseenko,AGanguly,S:  22.Rxc7+!! Bxc7 23.Rc1 Rd7 24.Bf4! Qxf4 (There is nothing better) 25.Nxf4 Kb8 26.Qxf6  and the rest is just mopping up  26Rc8 27.Nd3 Bg6 28.Ne5 Rdd8 29.b4 Be8 30.a5 Bb5 31.Rxc7 Kxc7 32.Nf7 Rf8 33.Qd6# 1-0

Other posts by GM Kevin Spraggett:
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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
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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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