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21 Days to Supercharge Your Chess Day 6: Setup Your Own Chess Database

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Here is your homework that you should do after reading the chapter!

Master s Game ' : Position 6

Instructions:

Go through this master game, read all the comments and try to understand the basic ideas behind the moves. To
fully understand the game you might want to study it multiple times. For your convenience the PGN of this game is
attached below the diagram.

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Let's look at the following

position that emerged from
Grunfield Defense. Black to
move. What do you see? The
most important thing you
probably noticed about the
white's position is that the King
is in the center. Black can
exploit that serious positional
weaknessifheactsfast.Avery
difficult move to find that leads
to a imbalance. 1... Na4!
Removingthedefender.2.Qa3
[2.Na4Ne43.Qe7(3.Qb4Bf3
4.Be7Qe7Blacksacrificesthe
Queen for 3 pieces. 5. Qe7
Rfe8 Setting up a discovered
check. 6. Qb4 Bd1 7. Kd1 Nf2
Winning an exchange. 8. Kc2
Nh1 Black is a little better
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here.) 3... Qa5 4. b4 Qa4+

Download PGN of this exercise.

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Tactics Lab : Homework 6

Instructions:

Here is your practical (tactical) exercises. Solving these problems is a very important part of the program on your
way to improve your game. Try solving them by looking on the diagram. If that is hard you can setup pieces on the
board and attempt again. Solutions are given at the bottom.

#31. White to move and win

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#32. White to move and win

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#33. White to move and win

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#34. White to move and win

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#35. White to move and win

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#36. Black to move and win

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#31.1. Be6 Bxe6 (1 fxe6 2. Qc8+ Bd8 3. Qxd8+ Rxd8 4. Rxd8+ Qe8 5. Rxe8#) (1 Rd8 2. Rxd8+ Bxd8 3. Qe8#)
2. Qc8+ Bd8 3. Qxd8+ Rxd8 4. Rxd8# 1-0

#32. 1. Bg8 Rxg8 (1 Bxh6 2. Qh7#) 2. Nf7# 1-0

#33.1. Qg5 Rg8 (1 hxg5 2. Rh3#) (1 gxf6 2. Qxh6#) 2. Qxh6+ gxh6 3. Rxg8#1-0

#34.1. Rd7+ Bxd7 (1 Ke8 2. Qxe6+ Kf8 3. Qf7#) (1 Kf8 2. Qxa8#) 2. Qf6+
Ke8 3. Qxh8+ Ke7 4. Qxa8 1-0

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#35.1. Rxd7 Qxd7 (1 Nxd7 2. Qxg7#) 2. Bxf6 1-0

#36.1Nf3+ 2. gxf3 (2. Kh1 Nf2#) 2 Rg6+ 3. Kh1 Nf2# 0-1

Endgame Lab:Position6
Instructions:

Here is your practical (tactical) exercises. Solving these problems is a very important part of the program on your
way to improve your game. Try solving them by looking on the diagram. If that is hard you can setup pieces on the
board and attempt again. Solutions are given at the end. Check them only after your complete/attempt all problems.

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#6. Can black draw this position?

Download PGN of this exercise.

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This is the similar position with

one big difference, black's rook
cannot occupy the 6th rank prior
to king defending the pawn.
Therefore, the game is lost.
1... Rd1 2. Kc5 Rg1 3. Rb8
[3.Rb8Thiswaytodefenseisnot
muchbetter.3...Rg5 4. Kb4 Rg4
5. Ka5 Rg5 6. Rb5 Rg7 7. Rb7
Winning for white.] 3... Rg6 And
black cannot catch the pawn.
4.a7Ra65.a8Q+

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GreatJob! That's it for today. You can move to the next lesson!

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