An Adult Competitors Journey Towards 2200
The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1… Kxd3 2. g6 Rf2 3. g7 Rxf3 4. g8=Q Rxh3+ 5. Kg2 Rg3+ 0-1
The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1… Rxa7 2. Qxd8 Rxa6 3. Qe7 Rxa1+ 0-1
The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1… c3 2. Nb5 (2. hxg4 Rxh1#) 2… cxb2 0-1
The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1. Bxb5 Rhd8 (1… Bxb5 2. Nb7#) 2. Bxc6 Nxc5 3. Bb5 Ne4 4. Rxc8 Rxc8 5. Rd7#
1-0
The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1. Bxh6 Rxf3 2. Rxg6+ Kh7 3. Rg7+ Kh8 4. Rh7+ Kxh7 5. Qg7# 1-0
The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1. Nh5 g6 2. Bf4 1-0
The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1. Nxf6 Qxe2 2. Ng8# 1-0
I’ve been looking through a ton of GM games lately for various reasons, and in doing so I stumbled across this gem of a game.
The game features a lot of maneuvering with opposite colored bishops until this position is reached:
Here White takes advantage of the opportunity to get queens off while winning a pawn and gaining a mass of center pawns in the process.
After further maneuvering this position appears on the board:
Here Black commits the critical error by playing 69…Bf1, moving the bishop to a square where it doesn’t factor into the defense of the h3-c8 diagonal. After a few more deft maneuvers on White’s part Black quickly finds his king tied to the defense of a pawn and White’s pawns marauding.
This game is a very Carlsenesque example of how to maneuver until your opponent makes a slight slip which then becomes exploitable.
Here is the entire game.
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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The solution appears at the bottom!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
If you like this blog, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. Any money I raise will go towards lessons and stronger tournaments.
If you can spare it, please click here and become a supporter. Even $1 a month can help me achieve my dream.
The solution to today’s puzzle is:
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1… Rh4 2. h3 (2. g3 Qxg3+ 3. hxg3 Rh1#) 2… Rxh3 0-1
So I went on quite a run of tactical success with chesstempo.
I solved 29 straight correctly, then finally missed one a few minutes ago.
I do like to solve them rated sometimes to try to work my way up to harder problems. The only issue I have with them is that often the value for success is little and the punishment for failure is high.
My best guess is that you need a success rate of around 70% just to stay level with where you are.
Either way, one thing I noticed as the streak took hold was that I was giving in to the temptation to guess far less frequently.
I was doing my best to calculate as precisely as I could. Hopefully that sticks and is a thing now.
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Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
If you like this blog, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. Any money I raise will go towards lessons and stronger tournaments.
If you can spare it, please click here and become a supporter. Even $1 a month can help me achieve my dream.