Hanging on
2/20/2015 – Tactics can seem deceptively simple, particularly when seeing an engine analysing grandmaster games. Strange, however, how difficult it is to find the right move and to calculate variations properly when playing yourself. It is easier if you solve tactical puzzles regularly. In the ChessBase Magazine and his tactics column Oliver Reeh helps you to do so.
Hanging on
White might need more than one good move to save his rooks. After 29.Rd1 Qb8 the pin on the diagonal to h2 is still acute. What would you play with White now?
A) 30.g3
B) 30.Txd8 Txd8 31.g3
C) Black conquers material in any case
Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine
Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by tactic expert Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine, where you will also find openings articles and surveys, endgames, and of course annotations by the world's top grandmasters.
ChessBase Magazine #164 (Feb./March)
Introduction by Karsten Müller
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