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Middlegame tactic

Save for study tonight

If you are hoping to learn something

If you're hoping to learn something about tactics and chess from my blog......

I will respectfully redirect you to someone who knows what he is talking about.

Dan Heisman Archive of a decade of Novice Nook.

2.13 circle 1 640

2.14 circle 1 670

2.15 circle 1 700

2.16 circle 1 709

Begin with an End in Mind- WTM

As Dan Heisman says Loose Pieces fall off. Here with White to Move, it's important to evaluate some options to see if you can grab the queen as well as preventing mate.

I am not only building patterns for a specific positions but for opportunity recognition in games. I'd hoping to further develop my tactical "spider" sense that there is a possibility of a tactic when a position arises.

Here Black's Queen is a clear target and worth some clock time to see if she call be caught.

Interestingly enough this position occurs when black is focusing on Queen to G2 for the mate.

589 Sharpen Your Tactics.
Game found here
Gelfand vs Kanstler 1987

Minor Piece Endgame Study

Capturing this for future study.

2.11 first circle problem 600

Brain cramp

From today's puzzle of the day, I'm having a brain cramp on this though the options are pretty limited. I'm going to brute force the candidate moves and build an option tree tonight.

2.10 First Circle 582

Hopefully

Hopefully, I will make up for lack of detailed interesting posts * by adding the chessgames.com puzzle of the day to my sidebar. It's a great site worthy of lengthy and daily visits. I enjoy the puzzle (published 12:00 am EST) and the game of the day and the comments from the community . Many of my sidebar links are to collections at this site.


I'm pleased with my initial circle and I'm at the first pass familiarity stage with many of the positions. I'm working on the complete problem set many of the harder set which I don't get pass the first move or two of the analysis. (I do try to follow as much of the continuation as I can)


* posts are left intentionally sparse so I can concentrate on building tactical circle momentum.

2-6 505 circle 1

2-7 526 c1

2-8 550 c1

2-9 563 Woot! Hit half way point on first circle #563 . problems getting progressively harder,combinations longer and variations more complex although there are still some 1&2 star problems in the mix.