Tactics from the 2015 US Chess Championship

Posted by in Tactics on Apr 14th, 2015 | 5 comments

 

Tactical exercises from the recently concluded US Chess Championship.

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Women’s Championship

Exercise 1 (Easy)

Virkud – Krush round 4

Exercise 2 (Easy)

Virkud – Goletiani round 6

Exercise 3 (Easy)

Melekhina – Ni round 6

Exercise 4 (Easy)

Krush – Wang round 7

Exercise 5 (Easy)

Foisor – Yu round 7

Exercise 6 (Easy)

Wang – Goletiani round 8

Exercise 7 (Medium)

Yu – Sharevich round 1

Can the pawn on e3 be taken?

Exercise 8 (Medium)

Yu – Krush round 10

Exercise 9 (Difficult)

Krush – Goletiani round 5

Exercise 10 (Very Difficult)

Goletiani – Foisor round 2

How should Black respond to the check?

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

Open Championship

Exercise 11 (Easy)

Nakamura – So round 4

Why didn’t Nakamura capture on f4 here?

Exercise 12 (Easy)

Akobian – Troff round 7

Exercise 13 (Medium)

Onischuk – Troff round 3

Exercise 14 (Medium)

Shankland – Gareev round 7

Exercise 15 (Difficult)

Naroditsky – Nakamura round 5

Exercise 16 (Difficult)

Troff – Nakamura round 8

Solutions

Solution to Exercise 11

Solution to Exercise 12

Solution to Exercise 13

Solution to Exercise 14

Solution to Exercise 15

Solution to Exercise 16