Tactics from Reykjavic Open 2015

 

This week’s tactical exercises come from the recently concluded Reykjavic Open.

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Exercise 1 (Easy)

Soors – Wahedi round 8

Exercise 2 (Easy)

Thorhallsson – Gupta round 7

Exercise 3 (Easy)

Gajewski – Thorfinnsson round 3

Exercise 4 (Easy)

Gao – Shen round 5

Exercise 5 (Easy)

Ptacnikova – Steingrimsson round 2

Exercise 6 (Easy)

Fier – Thiry round 1

Exercise 7 (Medium)

Grandelius – Petrov round 10

Exercise 8 (Medium)

Tari – Petersson round 1

Exercise 9 (Medium)

Gupta – Hitzler round 2

Exercise 10 (Medium)

Hansen – Tjomsland round 2

Exercise 11 (Medium)

Eljanov – Petrov round 3

Exercise 12 (Medium)

Stopa – Soors round 3

Exercise 13 (Medium)

Bisby – Gao round 4

Exercise 14 (Medium)

Aravindh – Naiditsch round 5

Exercise 15 (Medium)

Molner – Vojinovic round 5

Exercise 16 (Medium)

Jussupow – Foisor round 6

Exercise 17 (Medium)

Naroditsky – Gao round 7

Exercise 18 (Medium)

Movsesian – Bekker-Jensen round 7

Exercise 19 (Medium)

Cornette – Christiansen, J. round 9

Exercise 20 (Medium)

Bekker-Jensen – Johannesson round 10

Exercise 21 (Difficult)

Navara – Fier round 8

Can the pawn on h4 be taken?

Exercise 22 (Difficult)

Christiansen, J. – Rombaldoni round 8

Solutions

Solution to Exercise 1

Solution to Exercise 2

Solution to Exercise 3

Solution to Exercise 4

Solution to Exercise 5

Solution to Exercise 6

Solution to Exercise 7

Solution to Exercise 8

Solution to Exercise 9

Solution to Exercise 10

Solution to Exercise 11

Solution to Exercise 12

Solution to Exercise 13

Solution to Exercise 14

Solution to Exercise 15

Solution to Exercise 16

Solution to Exercise 17

Solution to Exercise 18

Solution to Exercise 19

Solution to Exercise 20

Solution to Exercise 21

Solution to Exercise 22

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