Puzzle of the Day 8/11/19

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Pogonina Shows Great Technique

Earlier this morning I was watching some of the Russian Superfinals online.

The game Pogonina – Tomiova was about in this position when Pavel Tregubov said in the commentary booth that while White appears to be better it remained to be seen if Black could get rid of the queenside pawns and construct a fortress.

Then a while later this position was on the board, and to me it looked like there was still some serious work to do, but here Natalija showed magnificent finishing technique and polished off her opponent.

Wonderfully done!

Here is the complete game.

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Puzzle of the Day 8/10/19

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Interesting Position From a Game of Mine

Thursday of this past week I played a game which wasn’t all that interesting in and of itself, but which contained a very interesting position.

Here is the position with White to move:

Here my opponent did me just about the biggest favor possible and played 15.0-0??

After the game though, some friends and I analyzed this position to great lengths. It was one of those analysis sessions where each contributor found and refuted one another’s ideas back and forth. It’s sad that such sessions are so rare these days.

What would you have played here? See below for the complete game and some analysis. Granted, I ran the lines through an engine to verify them so the analysis won’t be 100% what we were looking at on the 8th, but it’s pretty close.

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Puzzle of the Day 8/09/19

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Puzzle of the Day 8/08/19

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Puzzle of the Day 8/07/19

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Puzzle of the Day 8/06/19

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Puzzle of the Day 8/05/19

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Gelfand – Svidler Game Eight

And with this, Svidler takes the rapid match by a score of 5-3

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