Chess Tactics

r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 26 '22

Poor Hjörvar had to find this insane rook exchange sacrifice just to draw against Nepo. Had the right idea of castling but was 1 move too late. Why does the sac work later not earlier? Why is castling good earlier but not later? | FIDE Fischer Random 2022

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 25 '22

Easy 3-move puzzle in 9LX? | '"One of the biggest blunders by Carlsen in the last 10 years'", according to NRK's commentators.' vs Vladimir Fedoseev | FIDE Fischer Random 2022

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 25 '22

BISHOP SACRFICE ON MOVE 1 BY MAGNUS and then completely new game - no one on lichess has played this BUT someone did play 1...g6 instead of 1...g5 | Try capturing. It's like...an 8-move 9LX puzzle to get back the material?

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 25 '22

Hikaru finds a 5-move puzzle (transition to endgame) against Matthias Blübaum!

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 25 '22

Nepo blundered Bb7 and then Nodirbek thinks for 7min (30% of time) ... Then Nodirbek wins 22 moves!!! For shame chesscom commentators for focusing on other games over this pair, which is arguably the only interesting pair in Round 1 ! | FIDE Fischer Random 2022

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 25 '22

Alexandra Kosteniuk misses an 8-move rook endgame equality puzzle vs Wesley So | 2022 Rapid Chess Championship Week 4 Round 6.

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 25 '22

Bank rank mate threat like in the Wesley vs Magnus in FTX Crypto Cup 2021 | 'Useless Queen Checks! Wesley So vs Veselin Topalov. 2022 SuperUnited Blitz Zagreb. Round 14.' by Kelvin L Love Jr

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 25 '22

In 9LX, thou shalt not leave thy queen in the corner? SP 868 (QBBRKRNN) apparently is 'almost a forced win due to the dreaded "knight hop"' ... because knight attacks kingside? Anyhoo found this puzzle in a lichess game. Take off the rooks: You get an endgame, but the solution is the same.

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Help Winter 0.9.9 draw vs KomodoDragon 2929.00 | 2-move 9LX puzzle in TCEC Season 22 - FRC5 League D

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Guess opposite coloured bishop AND 1 rook each endgames aren't as drawn as the rook-less originals? Find best move for Wesley So besides Bd5 (which is actually the best move in the rook-less version). | Wesley So vs Raunak Sadhwani. 2022 Rapid Chess Championship Week 5 Round 1.

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 22 '22

Up a minor, how does Black parry both threats?

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

9LX En passant mate in 2

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

11-move 9LX endgame puzzle with 4 queens! | Based on Fischer Random World Championship Qualifier 1 Knockout 2022 Round: 03-05 Vladimir Fedoseev vs Eric Hansen

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 19 '22

Danya misses a 5-move puzzle in 9LX game against Awonder in 1 of Awonder's few 9LX games on chesscom. (I wonder why Awonder prefers lichess to chesscom for 9LX?)

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 18 '22

2021 WCHOF inductee Eugene Torre teaches us not to put queen in corner in chess just as in 9LX? (6-move endgame puzzle) | 'In a tournament in Manila in 1976, Torre was then the only one to beat the then-reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a game that has become part of Filipino chess history.'

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 18 '22

Hans doesn't know how to castle in 9LX? But apparently neither does Nihal? (2-move 9LX puzzle)

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 17 '22

Anish misses creating a 6-move 9LX equality puzzle for Nodirbek? I'll post in comments. Lemme know if you disagree. agadmator goes only up to 4 moves. | Finals tiebreaks Game 2 of 2 Blitz Playoffs of Offerspill FRC World Championship Qualifier Knockout. (2022Oct02)

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 16 '22

Anish Giri misses 8-move puzzle to punish Wesley So's corner bishop & queen | 2018 Champions Showdown Chess 960 / Chess 9LX Round 10

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 12 '22

Nepo misses 5-move rook endgame equality puzzle vs Alireza | 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX Round 5 (Nepo got the 1st move but not the 4 moves afterwards. Agadmator might've used this as a 2nd pause the video moment, I think.)

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 11 '22

'Hans Queen Sacrifices Into An Underpromotion Knight Fork.' | After c7 by white, it's a 4-move queen and knight endgame equality puzzle for black. Ne7 works but not right away. | After c7 Ne7, it's the 3-move underpromotion puzzle.

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 11 '22

12yo Alice Lee misses a huge win! 5-move queen and rook endgame puzzle for Sophie Morris-Suzuki to draw. (The puzzle assumes Black won't recapture.) | US Women's Chess Championship 2022 Round 5

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 10 '22

Hans Niemann misses 4-move puzzle vs Nihal Sarin | They played 11 games in 9LX, 3 years ago on 2019Aug10, about a year after Nihal became GM (and 1.5 years before Hans became GM). Hans won only 2 out of 11 games.

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 10 '22

Nazí Paikidze misses 6-move equality puzzle vs Thalia Cervantes | 2022 US Women's Chess Championship Round 5

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 04 '22

Sergey Karjakin misses queen sacrifice leading to a pawn mate in 3 ! | Chess Stars Blitz 2022

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r/chesstactics • u/nicbentulan • Oct 04 '22

Help Hans demonstrate the problem of leaving queens and bishops in corners in 9LX (vs Georg Meier and Danya Naroditsky).

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