Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad

Hi friends, lets look at some Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad.

Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad

This position comes from the game WGM Melanie Ohme of Germany (2301) vs WGM Olga Girya of Russia (2484), Round 4 of the 41st Chess Olympiad, played in Norway.

White to move.

The tactics puzzle is at move 37. White to move.

Black has just played 36. …Rh2. It appears as though Blacks pieces are all swarming over the white monarch and the attack by black might just come through. Right?

Look again. The Black King is also not a sleeping beauty rather looks like a sitting duck. The question is – how can White use that to his advantage?

The first thing to do is to lay the position on a real chess board.

Do not try solving it on the PC as you will be missing on the spatial aspects of chess training.

Moreover if the position is not solvable in the first two minutes then stop staring at the screen.

Sit down and start solving on a chess board.

But don’t feel any necessity to do it that way; just try to “see” as far as you can with the diagram, and if you can’t keep the position or visualize deep enough, then its time to set up a board.

This wayit will improve your vision on a real board also since real chess games are OTB.

If you can mate him, it will be good. If you cannot, try tactical methods to snare some free stuff!

Oops – looks like I just blurted out the answer.

Don’t scroll down any further as the answer will be posted in the following lines.

Let us see what the answer is:  Bb6+ followed by RxN. (The Knight is defending the Rook on d2. So you get the picture now?). Black loses a lot of material and resigned.

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