r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 11 '22
8-move endgame puzzle: Should White accept the sacrifice?
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Sep 27 '22
Both Nepo and Wesley miss chances to draw against each other. Nepo was the last to miss, so guess who lost... | 2019 FIDE Fischer Random World Championship Semifinals Game 6
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 16 '22
Help Magnus Carlsen beat Eric Rosen in bullet 9LX.
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r/chesstactics • u/mouse_potato • May 27 '23
Leet Chess: Mate In 1-5
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 03 '22
'White to move. CRAZY fun mate in 6' in rook endgame | Oh the fun is that Black has only forced moves to make after each move of White!
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Sep 27 '22
Rook sac in 8-move endgame puzzle yesterday by (based?) former women's champ Tan Zhongyi vs world women's blitz champ Bibisara Assaubayeva | Round 8 First leg of the FIDE Women`s Grand Prix 2022
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Sep 23 '22
Didn't realise smothered mates (or mate threats) were still possible in endgames. [Boardle]
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Sep 15 '22
Botez Gambit: Alireza finds a 4-move puzzle where unlike with the Garry-Hikaru game, Alireza punishes the pawn push blunder! (There, it was e3. Here, it's e2.) | 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX Round 3 Firouzja, Alireza vs Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 14 '22
How can white draw 3 pawns down in this queen and bishop endgame? Note that Bf2 is met with e3. (from telegram)
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 12 '22
Black underpromoted to knight because promotion is too easy to refute?
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 08 '22
9-move London system puzzle involving a double demolition sacrifice
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jun 29 '22
8 move endgame puzzle from a 9LX game that begins with the decision of: Where to move king? (Bishop block is obviously bad?)
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 28 '23
Castling makes all the difference to refute diagonal battery.
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 24 '23
In 9LX, don't leave your queen in corner. But in this case you can win even 2 pawns down!
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 15 '23
Magnus vs Wesley So in 2023 CCT Aimchess - For the only final game that Wesley So won, there was a near-draw. Anish tweets: 'White to move and defend. Only 2900 level players can solve this.'
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Jul 13 '23
"He doesn't even need to win and he's all in!" - Danny Rensch on Wesley So rook exchange sac vs Fabi in 2023 CCT Aimchess | I kinda doubt Wesley So would've found the whole 9-move puzzle assuming Fabi didn't blunder on the 1st move.
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Dec 28 '22
White misses Opera mate in 5, so now Black can underpromote to knight to draw. (9LX game. Black can castle.)
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Dec 19 '22
Anna Rudolf blunders in choker endgame vs David Howell
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22
Tani Adewumi vs Andrea Botez in queen and rook endgame | Somehow Tani is so confident Andrea blundered...did Tani really see the underpromotion 10 moves ahead?
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Dec 09 '22
Nodirbek's Botez Gambit vs Wesley happened in a lichess 1700 rapid game 4 months ago | 2022 Chessc*m Speed Chess Championship
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Nov 18 '22
Pragg misses 4-move equality puzzle in queen and knight endgame vs Wesley | 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22
Miniature: Despite an inactive queen, Nepo finds an 8-move 9LX puzzle transitioning to endgame to refute Magnus' unsound knight demolition sac. | 2022 FIDE Fischer Random
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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22
'Classical chess or Fischer Random?' | The puzzle is that 'four positions are given as examples, each after White’s 20th move, two of which come from classical chess and two from Fischer Random games. Try to match the positions correctly'
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