Outsmarted

8/17/2018 – Despite his four minus pawns in the queen ending, achieving a draw with White in the diagram position seems not too difficult. But victory would be even nicer, wouldn't it? Enjoy!

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Zugzwang mystery

According to Wikipedia, the first known use of the term zugzwang in English was by World Champion Emanuel Lasker in 1905. This is a beautiful one but unfortunately, we don't know the composer. Maybe a reader can help!

Strike like the world champions

88 times, IM Oliver Reeh leads you step by step through the most brillant game conclusions of the world champions - in interactive Fritztrainer format, enabling you to enter the winning moves yourself.

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Oliver Reeh Oliver Reeh has been working for ChessBase for many years as a translator and presenter of the internet show TV ChessBase, and he also looks after the tactics column in ChessBase Magazine, for which he has also been responsible as editor-in-chief since 2019. The International Master has contributed to the CB "MasterClass" series and is the author of the DVDs "Strike like the World Champions" and "Master Class Tactics - Train your combination skills!" Volumes 1 & 2. Oliver Reeh lives in Hamburg.