Tune your tactics - Tata Steel Tactics 2018

by Pascal Lautenschläger
1/18/2018 – A solid tactical understanding is sure to help any chess player in critical situations. Whether it is a simple exchange or a mating attack, tactics are ubiquitous. Take advantage of the opportunity to develop your tactical understanding in this series with IM Oliver Reeh and Pascal Simon! Thursday at 15:30 CET (9:30 AM EDT) it's all about Tata Steel Tactics 2018!
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Tata Steel Tactics 2018

The show Tune your tactics will broaden your tactical knowledge. We present puzzles from easy to difficult. Today the focus is on Tata Steel Tactics 2018. 

 
White to move

Exactly in this position the trade 32.Bxc6+! is strong since Black cannot well recapture with the rook. Why not?

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The last episode was about positions with a queen on d2 vs a queen on a5:

To practice your tactics on a daily basis the authors recommend the ChessBase Tactics portal

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At the airport, in the hotel or at home on your couch: with the new ChessBase you always have access to the whole ChessBase world: the new ChessBase video library, tactics server, opening training App, the live database with eight million games, Let’s Check and web access to playchess.com

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