In the position below from my 5th round game at the Wisconsin Closed Championships this past Labor Day, my opponent (playing white) stumbled into a tactic that shortened the game considerably. Can you spot the win for black?
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Chess is 99% Tactics
It's an old chess adage, but it's probably a slight exaggeration. Certainly tactics can be much more important than position, and many "won" games have been lost due to tactics. Nowhere is the adage more true than at the junior level. Grandmasters may preside over drawn-out positional wins, but the rest of us are far more likely to find (or fall victim to) tactical shortcuts.
In the position below from my 5th round game at the Wisconsin Closed Championships this past Labor Day, my opponent (playing white) stumbled into a tactic that shortened the game considerably. Can you spot the win for black?
In the position below from my 5th round game at the Wisconsin Closed Championships this past Labor Day, my opponent (playing white) stumbled into a tactic that shortened the game considerably. Can you spot the win for black?
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