Defend Like a Beast With Naka

Today in the opening round of the London Chess Classic Fabiano Caruana managed to get a nice attacking position, but Hikaru did what he does so well in tough positions and just kept finding resources.

Til Next Time,

Chris Wainscott

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Hogg – Wainscott 0-1

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My Best Ever Piece of OTB Calculation

Thursday I played a game where I somehow was able to calculate crystal clear at the end of the game.  Hopefully that’s a sign that all the work I did over the summer is paying dividends!

Feel free to take some time and try to work out the solution, which I give at the bottom of this post.

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Chris Wainscott

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The solution to the above position:

 

I’m Back!

After a relatively lengthy hiatus I am back.  After not working for nearly 3.5 months I found a new job and that took a lot of time away from chess for me.

However, now I’m back and ready to go.

I just did 20 tactics puzzles and correctly solved 17 of them, so hopefully this means that I’m not too rusty.

In the past six weeks I’ve only played two games.  One against a 1200 and one against a 500.  In both cases I was just playing as a house player so no one went without a game.

But now I’m ready.  I’ve got the fire. The hunger.  The whatever.

Let’s do this!

Til Next Time,

Chris Wainscott

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Puzzle for September 30, 2018

The solution appears at the bottom!

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Chris Wainscott

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The solution to today’s puzzle is:

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[Event “Riga”]
[Site “Riga”]
[Date “1980.??.??”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Woitkewitsch”]
[Black “Klimakow”]
[Result “1-0”]
[Annotator “T3Z”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “rn3r1k/ppp4n/3bBqQB/8/6P1/2N2P1R/PPP3K1/R7 w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “7”]
[EventDate “1980.??.??”]
[EventType “team”]
[EventCountry “LAT”]

1. Qxh7+ Kxh7 2. Bxf8+ Kg6 3. Rh6+ Kg5 4. Ne4+ 1-0

Puzzle for September 29, 2018

The solution appears at the bottom!

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Chris Wainscott

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The solution to today’s puzzle is:

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[Event “Minsk”]
[Site “Minsk”]
[Date “1978.??.??”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Lanka”]
[Black “Roisman”]
[Result “1-0”]
[Annotator “T1W”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “8/2p3kp/1pP1Qpp1/pP6/5p2/P6P/5bPK/3r4 w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “3”]
[EventDate “1978.??.??”]
[EventType “game”]
[EventCountry “BLR”]

1. Qd7+ Rxd7 2. cxd7 1-0

Puzzle for September 28, 2018

The solution appears at the bottom!

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The solution to today’s puzzle is:

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[Event “Bangalore”]
[Site “Bangalore”]
[Date “1981.??.??”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Kusmin”]
[Black “Torre”]
[Result “1-0”]
[Annotator “T2Z”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “3qnrnk/5p2/3p1b1p/p2PpBB1/1rp1PQ2/2N4R/1PP3PP/R6K w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “5”]
[EventDate “1981.??.??”]
[EventType “team”]
[EventCountry “IND”]

1. Bxh6 exf4 2. Bg7+ Kxg7 3. Rh7# 1-0

Puzzle for September 27, 2018

The solution appears at the bottom!

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The solution to today’s puzzle is:

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[Event “Budapest”]
[Site “Budapest”]
[Date “1981.??.??”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Lengyel”]
[Black “Farago”]
[Result “1-0”]
[Annotator “T3A”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “r3rk2/1b2Np1p/p4P2/1p1Np3/1Q6/P6q/2P1B2P/3n1RK1 w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “5”]
[EventDate “1981.??.??”]
[EventType “team”]
[EventCountry “HUN”]

1. Ng6+ Kg8 2. Qf8+ Rxf8 3. Nde7# 1-0

Puzzle for September 26, 2018

The solution appears at the bottom!

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Chris Wainscott

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The solution to today’s puzzle is:

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[Event “Moskau”]
[Site “Moskau”]
[Date “1981.??.??”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Waganjan”]
[Black “Pantschenko”]
[Result “0-1”]
[Annotator “T3X”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “r1b2rk1/2q3pp/p3pn2/1pb1n3/2P1P3/2N2N1P/P1B2PP1/R1BQ1RK1 b – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “3”]
[EventDate “1981.??.??”]
[EventType “team”]
[EventCountry “RUS”]

1… Nfg4 2. Nxe5 (2. hxg4 Nxf3+ 3. gxf3 Qg3+ 4. Kh1 Qh3+ 5. Kg1 Rxf3 6. Qd8+
Rf8) 2… Nxf2 0-1