Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 11/14/2015 - 18:54
White to play in the 10th round of the Continental Championship between US GM Alexander Yermolinsky (White) and Canadian GM Anton Kovalyov (Black).
It is one of 14 Critical Positions available for download in this week's Canadian Tactic.
Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 10/12/2015 - 07:03
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the game Gusev - Qin from the 2015 Canadian university Chess Championship.
Can White find a move that holds, despite being two pawns down?
Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 09/28/2015 - 18:10
With GM Pavel Eljanov's continuing success in FIDE's Baku World Cup, I thought it might be nice to see one of his games against a Canadian. GM Eric Hansen annotates his round 9 game from the 2015 Reykjavik Open.
Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:18
It's White to play in this week's Canadian Tactic, which comes from the third round of the 2015 RA Fall Open --(still underway!)-- between GM Bator Sambuev and Kevin Wan, a co-winner of the 2014 RA Fall Open.
Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:20
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2014 World U16 Olympiad.
Black sacrificed her queenside pawns to bring her King up the board to win White's isolated h2-pawn and create her own passer. White to play and show whether Black's bold play was brilliant or bad.
Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 08/07/2015 - 17:40
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the final round of the 2015 Alberta Closed Championships and features IM Richard Wang vs IM Edward Porper.
Black has just played 26...Rd5, what should White play?
Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 07/09/2015 - 13:11
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the game P.Vavrak-N.Noritsyn, (Hart House, 2014).
White has sacrificed an exchange to create a dangerous passed pawn on d6. What should Black do?
