Tactics Time Chess Newsletter: Highly Tactical

Published: Sun, 09/11/16

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Highly Tactical

A masterpiece, simple but beautiful. ~ Peter Hardie on the game Jobava-Ponomariov discussed below


tactics position x
 
 
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his position comes from the 3 0 chess.com game "FearNoEvil12" (LM Joel Johnson) (2200) vs "eros-joo" (2067), played August 22, 2016.
 
   In the position on the right it is White to move
 
   Answer below.

  
   Raymond Labelle sent me an email entitled: "Jobava-Ponomariov - highly tactical entertaining game - Olympiads - round 8" and writes:

   Baadur Jobava, a great Georgian tactical player – worth having a look at this highly tactical game, with the very clear explanations of Daniel King.  Very entertaining.
 
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAVbF38x8yU&index=9&list=PLhyM8toCZs_rh7GeYv9ov76Rcdn5CpKam
 

  Tim:

   Thanks Raymond!  That was an entertaining game, with lots of interesting tactical ideas in there.  For those who would like to see the raw game score you can see it here: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1833909.  I highly recommend checking out the video, because King does a very nice job bringing the game to life, and explaining the various tactical shots and threats in the game.

 
   Here is the complete game:

[Event "Live Chess (3 0)"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2016.08.22"]
[Round "?"]
[White "FearNoEvil12"]
[Black "eros-joo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2067"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. f4 d5 4. Nf3 d4 5. Bb5+ Bd7 6. Bxd7+ Nxd7 7. Ne2 Ngf6 8.
d3 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Ne5 Bd6 11. Nc4 Bc7 12. Ng3 b5 13. Nd2 a6 14. Nf3 e5 15.
f5 Ne8 16. h3 f6 17. Nh2 Nd6 18. Qg4 Kh8 19. Bd2 Qe7 20. Rf3 c4 21. Raf1 Rac8
22. Nh5 cxd3 23. cxd3 Nc5 24. Qh4 Na4 25. Rg3 Rf7 26. Rff3 Nxb2 27. Rg6 Nd1 28.
Rfg3 Rg8 29. Bh6 Ne8 30. Ng4 Nc3 31. Ngxf6 Nxf6 32. Nxf6 Ne2+ 33. Kh2 Nxg3 34.
Bxg7+ Rgxg7 35. Qxh7+ Rxh7 36. Rg8# 1-0

 
   You can play through this game here: http://www.viewchess.com/cbreader/2016/8/28/Game311609093.html
 
 
   Answer:

   Joel found a very cool Arabian mate Queen sacrifice with 34. Bxg7+! Rgxg7 35. Qxh7+!! Rxh7 36. Rg8#

 
   Happy Tactics!
 
   Your Friend,
  Tim
 

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