Aug-06-18 K Rohonyan vs A L'Ami, 2008 
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| Pasker: How come this is a Monday puzzle? Its not that easy. This is deep for us mere mortals. |
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Jun-25-18 S Platzack vs J van Baarle, 1967
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| Pasker: A beautiful combination and a rare one. |
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Jun-01-18 Denker vs Botvinnik, 1945
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| Pasker: d3 is the best move positional wise and doesn't look like a stunning tactic. Clearing the diagonal which leads straight to the enemy king is more important than a pawn or two if you'e already built enough to start attack. I saw d3 immediately. |
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May-31-18 E Hansen vs Xiong, 2017
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| Pasker: Saw 38.Rxd5 instantly but took some time to look for a better move because its Thursday. After a while I realized there is nothing better than that. White's bishop on g2 and Black's Queen on b7 make this move almost an obvious continuation. In other words black made a huge blunder by |
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May-30-18 A Heimann vs B Stillger, 2017
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| Pasker: Top class puzzle..Simple, subtle and powerful. |
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May-29-18 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018
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| Pasker: Caruana blundered on move 27 and lost a pawn for nothing |
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May-25-18 M Antipov vs S Ivanov, 2017
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| Pasker: Ah! come on that was so easy as a Monday puzzle. I came prepared today for a complicated one but its over in a few seconds. |
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May-24-18 Z Hernandez vs B Dekic, 2008
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| Pasker: After this nice tactic white played like an amateur. May be a blitz game but after achieving the material advantage white was not at all trying to checkmate black but playing unnecessary moves. She was probably worried about the perpetual check but I would personally go for a king ... |
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May-15-18 M Rodshtein vs T L Petrosian, 2008
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| Pasker: It is considered as a decent tactic because if black block the check 28 Qc7+ by 28...Qe7 then 29. Rg7+ 29...Kxg7 30. QxQ wins the queen. Otherwise a natural check and mate in 2. |
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May-08-18 E Safarli vs A Donchenko, 2017
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| Pasker: Took some extra time to find the solution than usual Tuesdays mainly because of the quite move 18. Nh5. It neither capture anything nor a sac but it forces mate. Foreseeing quite moves in the middle of a combination is a bit tough but in this case its okay since it comes only the ... |
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