Showing posts with label Combinations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Combinations. Show all posts
Friday, August 4, 2017
Tactics Time at the Sinquefield Cup
In round one of the Sinquefield Cup, Sergey Karjakin smashed Peter Svidler. In his recap for the Internet Chess Club, GM Ronen Har-Zvi spotted an incredible tactic that COULD have occurred. Here's the position, with White to move:
Take a look at see if you can work it out. I was able to spot the relevant ideas, but couldn't put them all together. I really enjoyed this combination, and hope you do as well. You can follow along with the video from the correct time here.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Books still have their uses
I was looking through a copy of Informant* #9 covering the first half of 1970 yesterday and I found a neat little problem in the Combinations section, which I decided to post here.
So I hit my version of ChessBase and start looking for the game I. Zajcev - Storosenko, SSSR, 1970. The only problem is that I can't find a record of any such game or any such players. I looked for alternate spellings and searched by position, but it simply isn't in there. I imagine it was a game between a couple of amateurs that happened to catch someone's attention, got published in some Soviet magazine/paper/book, and from there found its way to the Yugoslav authors of the Informants. Thus paper not only beats rock, it also beats electronic database.
Here's the position:
I'll put the solution, as provided by M. Judovic of Informator, in the comments.
*That's Sahovski Informator to you, Bub!
So I hit my version of ChessBase and start looking for the game I. Zajcev - Storosenko, SSSR, 1970. The only problem is that I can't find a record of any such game or any such players. I looked for alternate spellings and searched by position, but it simply isn't in there. I imagine it was a game between a couple of amateurs that happened to catch someone's attention, got published in some Soviet magazine/paper/book, and from there found its way to the Yugoslav authors of the Informants. Thus paper not only beats rock, it also beats electronic database.
Here's the position:
I. Zajcev - Storosenko, SSSR
r1bq1r2/pppp1p2/k1n5/3NP3/6Q1/n1N5/P4PPP/2KR3R w - - 0 1
I'll put the solution, as provided by M. Judovic of Informator, in the comments.
*That's Sahovski Informator to you, Bub!
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