Tactics

Tactics: Attacking Development

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Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 19:24

This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2015 Alberta Closed.
IM Richard Wang won and has annotated this game between the second and third place finishers: Alex Yam and Rafael Arruebarrena.

Tactics: Rapid Finish

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 06/03/2015 - 19:39

Black has just played 23...Be2, what should White do?
NB: The CFC website switched servers this week (!!). The following is a repost which was lost during the transition.

Tactics: 2014 Year in Review

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 05/06/2015 - 13:51

It's White to move in this position. It was selected and annotated by Canadian Champion GM Bator Sambuev as one of the "gotta see" games of 2014, and appears with his notes in the latest issue of Chess Canada.

Tactics: nogarD

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Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 03/27/2015 - 18:17

This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the game Dougherty - Vettese (Guelph Fall ProAm, 2014).
It's a reversed Dragon, where Black has played ambitiously with ...f6, and now White can trigger some tactics against d5.
What happens on 10.Nxe5 and on 10.Ng5?

Tactics: The King is an Attacking/Attacked Piece

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 03/09/2015 - 18:07

Today's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2015 Gatineau Open.
Black is up a pawn with a better structure, but it's a Rook ending and White has an outside passed pawn and his centralized King keeps the Black King passive.
What can Black do?

Tactics: Busy B

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Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 18:41

This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the game Hambleton - Sambuev Montreal Open, 2014.
White played very accurately to defend against a dangerous attack, but that's not enough to win without playing the rest of the game perfectly.
Can you?

Tactics: who's QuaRRy now?

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 02/18/2015 - 00:39

This week's Canadian Tactic comes from game Hensel - Cashin (2014 Maritime Open).
Black has just played 36...Qc1. What should White play?

Tactics: Trapped, Not Trapped

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 02/11/2015 - 19:28

This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2014 BC Closed Championship.
The Black Queen is short of safe squares. Can White take advantage of this?

Tactics: White to play and... survive?

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Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 01/31/2015 - 23:45

This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2014 PanAms, the North American University Championship, held on South Padre Island, Texas in December. In round 1, GM Anton Kovalyov had Black against an opponent he outrated by nearly 900 points. Instead of going for complications, Anton played his slow QID (3...b6, 4...c6, 5...d5) and slowly equalized. Late in the middlegame, possibly with White in time trouble, they reached the following position:

Tactics: Attacking with a4!?

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Submitted by John Upper on Sun, 01/04/2015 - 15:28

White to play and win in this week's (very hard) Canadian tactic, which comes from the 2014 WYCC.
The title is a real hint, not a Miss-deflection.

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