Hints and tips:
...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...The final on Thursday and Friday (noon GMT start) will be Carlsen v Caruana, World No 1 v No 2 and a repeat of the 2018 classical world championship match....
...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Against Carlsen, his accuracy rate was in the mid-nineties against the No 1’s in the mid-eighties, a similar statistic to Carlsen v Niemann....
...On form, the World Cup final starting next Monday should be Carlsen v Caruana, a rerun of their closely fought 2018 world title match in London, which Carlsen has said was the only one of his five championship...
...Puzzle number 2534A Magnus Carlsen v Nijat Abasov, World Cup semi-final, Baku 2023. Black chose 1 . . . Rg6 and lost. How could he have beaten the World No 1?...
...Puzzle 2555 Owen Robson v Daniel Hill, York 2022. White to move and win. In the actual game, White resigned! He reckoned he was lost due to the threats of Bxc7 and Rxg2+. Can you do better?...
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2557 Esteban Canal v Amateur, Budapest 1934. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Evidently Wojtaszek knew Karpov v Miles well, as he chose a harmonious formation with Nbd2 to guard his e4 pawn where Karpov had preferred the less precise Qe2....
...Puzzle 2538 Vladimir Fedoseev v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Julius Baer Generation Cup 2023. Black to move. White has two queens and threatens Qh8 mate. What happened? Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2502 Kirill Alekseenko v Karen Grigoryan, Sunway Sitges 2022. White to move and win. The Russian, playing under the neutral Fide flag, went on to take first prize. Click here for solution...
...The quarter-finals of the chess.com Speed Championship include Nakamura v Levon Aronian at 2000 GMT on Monday December 12, Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana at 1800 GMT on Tuesday 13, and Wesley So v Maxime Vachier-Lagrave...
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2496 David Howell v Das Debashis, Doha 2016. White to move and win. The three-time British champion and Olympiad gold medallist scores in style. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2488 Nikita Vitiugov v Vladimir Kosyrev, Wroclaw 2014. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...A third round of Carlsen v Niemann is possible this weekend....
...Puzzle 2513 Michael Coenen v Philipp Lamby, Bundesliga 2022. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...China’s Ding Liren, who was crowned the new world champion earlier this month following Magnus Carlsen’s abdication, is already back in action....
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
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