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White achieved this aim by moving his attacked rook to the long diagonal : 25 This position shows the idea. Black's last. Of course Black can reply This but after 26 �xd4 the knight will fall next took away the last remaining safe squares move, and White will have won a bishop and for the c6-bishop, namely d7 and e8. White a knight for a rook. Moreover, Black's dark continued 20 b5 and the poor bi shop had squares, especially on the kingside, would be nowhere to go. Faced with the loss of his horribly weak so this position would be lost bishop for a mere pawn, Black immediately for Black. Therefore Black tried to confuse resigned.

the issue with fe8 28 l:f. d2 dxe5 29 fxe5! bS 30 friendly territory. If a piece goes on an adven­ tt:le4. xdS 31 'ifxb3 Black is already a turous but unwise j ourney into the enemy piece down and faces further material loss half of the board, the chances of it being because the d5-rook is pinned against a deadly trapped increase. queen check on f7. l::t h 7 the queen is trapped in any case the rest of the army; solo actions are more 20 f3 and now This �3 �f4 would have won at once. Black applies particularly to the queen. Despite its pl ayed i nstead l:Ixh4 l::f. x g7 great mobi lity, a queen can easil y be trapped with an extra piece, which also proved suffi­ if it ventures alone i nto enemy territory.

cient for eventual victory. Rooks, knights and bishops are al l worth less Of course, every piece of advice has its ex­ than the queen, and by acti ng in concert they ceptions and there are some cases in which a can surround and capture a reckless queen. queen can grab an enemy pawn and then re­ turn safely. However, all such cases have to be calculated very carefully to make sure that the queen can make it back. Even experi ­ enced grandmasters sometimes get it wrong, as in the previous diagram. Many pieces are trapped because of the element of surprise. If a piece has several squares available, the player may simply not take i nto account the possibility of the piece getti ng trapped; if it doesn 't 'look ' as if the piece can be trapped, there is no sense of dan­ ger.

de Firm ian - A. Iva nov USA Ch, Seattle w White has j ust grabbed the g-pawn by 1 7 �g4xg7? However, Black made use of an important pri nciple which often helps when trying to trap a piece : rather than aim­ lessly attacking the piece again and agai n, eventually chasi ng it back to safety, it is often better to cut off the piece's retreat route, and then play to trap it. Icelandic Ch, Seltjarnarnes The threat is 1 8. l::t d g8 and the free tempo is not of much help as the white queen has no Here it appears unl ikely that White will safe squares. The game continued 18 ctJh4 even manage to attack Black 's queen ; in ad­ 1 8 d5 frees the d4-square for the queen, but dition, the queen seems able to move to b6 if after 1 8. However, 24 Cb c 7! The bl-rook' s line of attack along the b-file i s uncovered, Trapped Piece Exercises and this takes away the last squares from the queen.

Moreover, it turns out that although c7 was apparently guarded by the c8-rook, Solutions start on page 1 3 1. White can in fact move his knight there with impunity as The upshot is that Black faces a fatal loss of material ; the finish was ! lxb 1 25 tt:Jxa6. xcl txc l tlJd3 27 Jl. td4 28 tt:Jb4 1 de Ia Riva - Plaskett Zonal tournament, Mondariz In thi s case the black bishop's lack of mo­ bility allows White to win material by com­ bining several tactical ideas. He played 21 l:tael, attacking the bishop. The bishop has 2 no safe square, so Black's onl y hope of sav­ w ing it is to defend it.

However, 2 1. tLlc6 fails to txc6, removing the bishop's guard. Alternatively, after 2l. Fi nally, Black can try defending the bi shop with the d8-rook, as in the game. The conclusion was 2t.. J:tde8 2 l. l::td7 loses the same way 22 l. he7 and Black resigned, since Can he get away motif. with this? TRAPPED PIECE 3 6 8 B Which piece did Black manage to trap? How did Black force a material gai 4 7 w w How can White set up a winning piece At the moment Black's queen can trap? How did White cut off this escape-1 a b c d e f 8 5 8 w 7 w How did White force a quick win? White has j ust seized an enemy pil black piece? win a pawn. What was the flaw in his idea? to resign.

What were they? TRAPPED PIECE 61 15 16 B B Is White's rook an asset or a liability? How did Black win material with a se­ quence of forcing moves? In the following position the vital duty ample. is defending against a mate threat. a b c d e h a b c d e g h B B Socko - Naka m u ra Chaba non - Bauer Bermuda French Ch, Narbonne 1 Here White ' s g2-bishop has the function White ' s f5 -rook has the vital duty of pre­ of defendi ng the knight on e4. If the bishop i s venting. B lack exploited this to play eliminated by an exchange, the knight will 32 �xf5, winning a rook for nothing. Black therefore conti nued resigned i mmediately. tt:Jxg2, so that if White plays 28 �xg2, then White tried 28 Removing the guard is really a very gen­ i. xd4, but after However, we rook down. only apply the term when the removal of a piece has a spec ific short-term consequence.

The basic situation is that one piece is de­ such as loss of materi al or mate. There arc fending a second one ; when the first is elimi­ three common ways in which a piece can be nated by capture, the second can be taken for compelled to give up an i mportant duty. The nothing. We shall call this removing the fi rst is deflection see Chapter 5 , when the guard. However, there i s no completely stan­ piece is forc ibly dragged away by a violent dard definition of this term in chess litera­ action elsewhere. The second i s capture, as ture.

In thi s book we extend the term to cover in the two examples above. The th i rd is by a cases in which the first piece ' s vital duty may direct attack on the piece concerned, as iP be something other than defending a second the follow ing position. a b c d e f g h w Removing the G uard Exercises Solutions start on page 1 White can attack thi s knight with one of his rooks, trying to force it to move. l:Ic5 is in­ ferior as Black replies a7, defending the knight and removing the rook from the vulnerable a2-square. Black replied 34 tt'la6, just allowing the fork ; after How did White win quickly by removing. xdS 36 l::t x d5 ctJxb4 37 l:rxbS White the guard?

was a clear exchange ahead and won using the extra material. Why did Black not defend a b c d e the knight with one his rooks? xc7 xa2, with an extra piece for White. The final possibility for Black is l:ta7 , but after 35 �e7 the knight is pinned and Black can only avoid losing it immediately by Then there is a comical situation in which Black's entire anny is paralysed by the need to defend the doubly pinned knight. The si mplest win is by marching White's king up the board ; for ex­ How did Black press home h i s kingside ample, 36 l:. c6 not 36 �g4? How can Black win material by rer the guard? Black's queen is attacked. w When discussing such a general topic, there will of course be an overlap with some of the ideas discussed in earlier chapters particu­ larly deflection - see Chapter 5. However, this in itself is not an important point. Chess tactics do not necessarily fit into neat pigeon­ holes with clear-cut labels on them.

Even quite simple combinations may employ sev­ eral different tactical motifs, while others sit uneasily on the boundary between one cate­ gory and another. The important point is not whether one labels a particular combination B. Kel ly - R. B u rnett ' line-opening' or ' deflection' - rather it is Budapest that knowing the combination can help win games. It is important not to adopt a blink­ to its fate. i¥xe5 18 erect approach to tactics, looking only for. l:rxd7 and although material is now equal, combinations based on knight forks or other B l ack ' s position is hopeless see diagram familiar concepts; an open-minded attitude is below. far more likely to succeed. As we progress through the book we will encounter more complex combinations involving an amal­ gam of different ideas - indeed Chapter 1 3 is devoted to precisely this topic.

The following diagram shows a typical line-opening combination. White won material with the neat continu­ ation 1 6 tL'lxdS! opening the c-file for the rook to reach c7 cxd5 17 l! This at­ tacks the b7-bishop, and if Black should de­ fend it by 1 7. ab8, then White continues 1 8 laxb7. Since 1 7. lt:Jec5 1 8. RN CHESS TA CTICS by 20 l::!. All this devastation is caused sacrifice was rather unusual and not based on by the active position of White's rook on the the standard patterns one normally fi nds in seventh rank, which itself is the result of textbooks.

This again emphasizes the poinl White's li ne-opening combination. The end that although study of famil iar patterns will was f7 xb7 and Black resigned, undoubtedly improve one ' s playing str,e ngth, since 1 d8 picks up Black's queen. This combination clearly involved several elements. Here the line-opening aspect has been emphasized, but the deflection of the c6-pawn is clearly important, as is the fork on d5 arising after 1 7. If the line which i s to be opened points to the enemy king, then the li ne-opening can form part of a mating combination. B Stefa nsson - A. Gunnarsson Icelandic Ch, Seltjarnarnes White played 26 d5! The normal response to White's pawn advance would be cxd5 , but thanks to the newly-opened line White can then win by Al lowing White to play d6 Vladikavkaz is also horrible; for example, after cc8 xb7 White wins a pawn White resigned after since it's with more to come , has a powerful pro­ mate next move 48 fxg3.

The sole tected passed pawn and has caught Black in a purpose of the queen sacrifice was to open pin along the seventh rank. Therefore Black the second ran k so that the e8-rook could went for his only other opti on, Although this combi­ grabbing the pawn apparently left unde­ nation was only two moves deep, the grand­ fended by White's last move. However, 27 master playing White evidently overlooked it l:ixc5! proved deci sive, since after The pl anation is undoubtedly that Black 's q ueen game actually fini shed e4 28 �aS. l:hd5 cxd5 3 0 'ii'x d5 'ith7 3 1 a4 1 Here again the success of White ' s idea was based on a combination of ideas. B Just as it is often desirable to open a line for one ' s own pieces, closing a line for an en­ emy piece can prove equally effective.

B Averbakh - Korch noi Erevan 1 At the moment, h2 is ineffective be­. cause White can cover the queening square by 39 �b l. Therefore B l ack pl ayed a pre­ limi nary manoeuvre designed to close the defensive line b l -h 1 : J:tc I! The diagram below shows the situ­ ation. In this position White ' s pieces appear ac­ tively placed, but it turns out that the c6- a b c d e h rook i s exposed. However, this 7 move had the effect of closing the line c 1 -c6 6 and thereby cutting off the advanced rook 's support. The game continued 2 5.

bxc5 26 dxc5 l:! xc5 29 l:!. d l �c4 30 "iVd7 "iVxa2 3 I l:!. ll f5 34 Wg2 0- 1. Line-closing combinations commonly However White takes the rook, the fi rst arise in two particular situations: pawn pro­ rank i s blocked and the h-pawn runs through: motion and m ating attacks. fol­ ple of the first case and you will see an lowed by h I 'it', and Black has a winning example of the second in the exercises. m aterial advantage. How did Black force mate? I 4 w B Which deadly blow did White strike here? A confusing-looking position, but B lack found a lethal move. Here Black found a knock-out move. OPENING AND CLOSING LINES 69 6 w Both sides are attacking furiously, but how did Black strike first? second rank. Thi s makes it vulnerable to a was eliminated by capture and at the samt mate del ivered by an enemy queen or rook time the b-file was opened to allow White ' : arriving on the first rank. Such a mate is rook to deli ver the mate.

called a back-rank mate. Two conditions must be satisfied for such a mate to occur; B ack-rank mates are unusual in the earl first of all , the defender's resistance on the middlegame, when there are usually two de back rank must be inadequate, and secondly fensive rooks on the back rank. However an enemy queen or rook must be able to pen­ later on the rooks may leave the back rank OJ etrate to the back rank. back-rank mate increases. Sometimes play· ers spend a tempo playing g3 or h3. h6 for Black specifically to create an es­ cape-square and reduce the danger of a back­ w rank mate. However, such moves must bt carefully j udged since they can create weak­ nesses around the king ; there is no generai rule and each position must be treated indi­ vidually. The next example shows another typical back-rank idea.

a b c d e h B -� 8 7 Kravtsov - M a l i n i n Russia Cup, Novgorod 1 99 7 6 5 Black ' s king is blocked in by the three un­ 4 moved pawns in front of it, so there is a po­ tential back-rank mate. B lack sti ll 3 has a rook coveri ng the back rank and this rook , for example, prevents mate by "JJ:Ve 8. In ts �. Black resigned. Xie J u n - Seirawan since after 2CLCLJxa8 Wh ite plays 2 1 l::i. Indeed, practice were not defending the d 1 -rook, then immedi­ shows that back-rank mates of this type are ate mate by.. Jhd 1 would be possible. This frequently overlooked. The reason is likely naturally raises the question as to whether to be psychological ; a row of unmoved pawns White' s queen can be compelled to give up in front of the king sends a warning signal to the duty of guarding d 1. Earlier in the book, watch out for possible back-rank mates, but we covered the three main ways in which a once one of the pawns has moved, the player piece can be compelled to abandon a duty : rel axes and it is then that mistakes occur.

In capture, direct attack and deflection. Capture the diagram position White played 3 3 �e4! is not possible here, and the direct attack by and B l ack resigned. The double pin has sud­ h5 achieves nothing after 25 WVe2. That denly been transformed into a double attac k leaves deflection and leads us to the winning on the enemy rooks. Neither white rook can move White 's queen is attacked, be taken due to the back-rank mate J:ha7 so he has no time to take on d8, but 25 WVxe4 34 �xb8 and Jhb5 Moreover, black rook must move to defend the other, White 's queen has no square available which but then B l ack loses his knight. The main line retains control of d 1 , so, faced by catastrophic is 3 ee8 35 l:!. xb8 lhb8 material loss, White resigned. Back-rank mate combinations often spring a b c d e h up unexpectedly, as in the following exam­ ple. f""� �� � - � f;' � Topa lov - Morozevich Cannes White is a pawn up, but his bishop is dou­ McShane - M i rumian bly pinned and his f2-pawn is attacked.

At Lippstadt first sight there cannot be a bank-rank mate in this positi on, because Black's h-pawn has White has just pl ayed. attacking moved, giving the king a flight-square. How­ Black's queen. Since the e8-rook is also un­ ever, it is i mportant to recognize that back­ der threat, White probably expected to win rank mates can sti l l occur even when one or material. However, Black replied with the more of the pawns in front of the king has shocking xe8, while fl l'. Therefore White had to play d l , moving the attacked rook and at the same time covering the threatened mate on e I. However, by 23 'ti'xd6!

again exploited the weak back rank see dia­ Back- Rank Mate Exercises gram below. Solutions start on page 1 w 1 w Black has won a piece for nothing, and the finish was 24 lt:Je4 l'. Here again the lack of the traditional three­ Black threatens mate in one. What should pawn li ne-up probably dulled White 's sense White play? of danger, although the absence of both rooks from the first rank was a warning sign that he should have heeded. Back-rank mates occur more often on the kingside than the queenside for two reasons. Firstly, kingside castling is in general more common than queenside cas­ tling. Secondly, queenside castl ing usually involves advancing the d-pawn and develop­ ing the queen 's bishop; then after there is a natural flight-square on d2, which makes a back-rank mate less l i kely.

However, if White plays and then �bl or. How did Black force immedi ate resi gna­ followed by. BACK-RANK MATE 73 3 6 B w How did Black win immediately? White played 24 'ifa7 and the game ended in a draw. a b c d e 4 7 B w How did Black force a quick mate? White played 43 lL:lxd6 here. Why was this a mistake? How did White exploit the back rank? White decided to exchange bi shops by 30 �xfS. Despite the simplified position White found a forced win. pears on the board; thus the net gain is eight points. This is a large material gain and it is therefore worth a considerable sacrifice to achieve a pawn promotion.

B B Smirin - Grishchuk FIDE Knockout, New Delhi With equal material and opposite-coloured E. Berg - l bragi mov bishops, a draw looks likely, especially as the Katrineholm 1 immediate b2 can be met by ig6, when both black pawns are halted. Even if Thi s example is typical. Black has an ad­ Black can manage to play his king over to the vanced pawn, but at the moment it is block­ b-pawn and win White 's bishop for it, White aded by the queen. Black i s willing to give will easily be able to capture Black's last up his queen for a rook a sacrifice of four pawn with his king. Black, however, found points in order to destroy the blockade and the subtle There are three ways ensure promoti on, which nets him eight White 's bishop can cover b1 in two moves or points within a couple of moves - a quick fewer jLf7-a2, jLg6 and. tg4-f5 and this and profitable return on his investment.

After sly king move covers all three. Promotion 40 Ji'xd3! White resigned since 4 1 'li'xd3 e cannot be prevented and so White resigned. followed by king not been blocking the h5-d 1 diagonal. for then he could have played.. id 1 -c2. B Heini Danielsen - Aagaard Tastrup 1 'iYe2 'i! This is the point; after 3 l. V Black ' s 'com­ Nataf - Korc h noi bination ' would have lost him a pawn, but Cannes 1 now the knight fork nets him a piece. The di­ agram below shows the situation. Here Black pushed home his attack with a simple but effective combination: and White resigned since 3 2 �xg2 h I 'iV is mate.

One queen vanished only to be imme­ w diately replaced by another. The rules of chess allow a pawn to be pro­ moted to a piece other than a queen ; the other options are rook, bi shop and knight. In prac­ tice, the queen is chosen the vast maj ority of the time because this offers the greatest mate­ rial gain, but sometimes a knight is preferred, usual ly because a knight delivers check while a queen would not. Positions exist where a rook or bishop promotion is necessary to avoid stalemate, but these are so rare in prac­ tice that we can safely ignore them. JtdS lt:lxd6 and apparently lost. PA WN PROMOTION 77 a b c Pawn Promotion Exercises 3 w Solutions start on page 1 3 8.

White is a rook down, but using his two passed pawns he can even win. What should he How did White win material? bl -b7. How should Black respond? rarily two pieces up. What should Blacl 7 10 B w What shou ld Black play here, a6 or. How did White exploit his advance' near the enemy king? White 's queen is pinned. Should � 42 i. g5 or is there a better move? mate, or simply 25 l2Ja7. What on earth can Black do? dxc3 by 8 �e5. Was this idea correct? This applies particularly natural sequence of moves i s unexpectedly to queen exchanges, as in the previous exam­ i nterrupted by some action taki ng place else­ ple. In most cases, this interruption occurs during an exchange of pieces. a b c d e f g h B Firman - Gallia mova Moscow Anastasian - An nageldiev Dubai We have already seen the same basic ar­ rangement of pieces in Salmensuu-Maki ex­ White had just played 30 �f3-g4 and he ercise 22 on page 33, where it appeared under now resigned without waiting for Black's re­ the theme of discovered attack , but it is ply.

He had seen the sequence l:he3 3 1 worth mentioning again as it i s so common. this i s the in-between move ; in­ The game continued 18 CLJdS! if it were not stead of recapturing the queen, which wou ld for the in-between move, then this wou ld lose the exchange, Black first of all delivers a make no sense, since Black could simply ex­ check which safeguards his rook with gain of change queens and then take the knight tempo 32 �g2 White has to reply to the 1 8. fxe6, when Black has won a piece. trans­ ferri ng the knight to a square where it i s pro­ It is very common to overlook in-between tected ; the alternative in-between move 1 9 moves. i s wrong, as it loses a piece after too natural to assume that your opponent must 1 9. Wd8 We7 1 9. Wd8 loses the same recapture - that is, after all, what normal ly way 20 �xd2. White threat­ ens both 2 1 lLlxh7 and 2 1.

xe5 winning a w piece as 2 l. dxe5 allows 22 l:txd7. There is no defence against these twin threats so B lack resigned. In-between moves are especially likely to occur when there is a complex sequence of exchanges, and it pays to check carefully whether one player or the other can advanta­ geously break away from the natural se­ quence. B lack chooses the right moment to break off the 'natural ' sequence of captures and plays an unexpected move winning a piece. The end was 12 �xe2 12 bxc3. xd 1 also costs White a piece tgS ii. e7 14 �acl �d7 15 dS lLlxdS 1 6 il.. xe7 Wlxe7 17 l:rfd 1 'iVd7 0- 1. The ease with which such moves can be overlooked is clear from the fact that this trap has claimed several victims, starting with Perli s White against Tartakower in 1 Azarov - B reder European Under- 1 8 Ch, Mureck 1 I n - Between Moves Exercises Here White has just played 10 lLlf3-eS, in­ Solutions start on page 1 4 1. tending to force a general liquidation. It is easy to i magine the thoughts running through a b c d e g h his head : "After 1 0.

lLlxe5 , I play 1 1 dxe5 i. xe2 1 2 �xe2 and White is better as he has 1 a lead in development. Therefore he must w play 1 0. txe2 and I reply 1 1 lLlxc6. If then 1 1. xd 1 1 2 lLlxa5 I win a pawn, as both d 1 and b7 are attacked. Thus Black must play l l. bxc6 and after 1 2 �xe2 the position is roughly equal. txe2 1 1 tt:lxc6 �xc3! see next diagram. How xe2, counter-attacking White ' s queen. should White reply? How did White reply? Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Search Metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search archived websites Advanced Search. The chess tactics workbook : learn to command your chess army Item Preview.

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is often worth a considerable sacrifice to set one up. Therefore Black resigned at once. How did Black force an instant win? which the firing piece and the rear piece both check the enemy king simultaneously. How did White set up a discovered attack How? It is not enough to make A particularly vulnerable formation is an sure that your opponent has no tactical threats ; exposed king together with one or more un­ you must also ensure that there are no tactical defended pieces. What should pawn li ne-up probably dulled White 's sense White play?

Black spotted the line-up of White 's queen and b4-knight and played It is often harder to B lack remove thi s pawn so as to execute his see preliminary sacrifices which do not in­ fork? Black exploited this pinned by the white queen. The rules of chess allow a pawn to be pro­ moted to a piece other than a queen ; the other options are rook, bi shop and knight, the chess tactics workbook pdf download. Although the fork is one of the most basic tactical devices, it is also one of the most B common in practice and decides countless games at all levels of play from begi nner up to as in the above example grandmaster. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3.