13 October 2009

Tactics Training

Here's a dirty little secret: I have not been doing my tactics training the past few months. Summer was busy, and the constant activity has not let up. I attempted six problems on Chess.com's Tactics Trainer this morning, failing three.

Here are two. The first originates from a correspondence game, Hayami-Rittenhouse, 1989. The second from Gheorghiu-Ljubojevic, Manila 1973.

Black to move



Black to move

2 comments:

  1. I like to see solutions.

    1. Qd1 may not be it, but looks like it should do it.

    2. Probably Rc3+ NxR...Nc5, chase the king around and mate on e6 after sacking the knight on c5 as well.

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  2. LinuxGuy, You are correct on the one I missed. ON the other, I started with a knight check.

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