Tactics Time Newsletter 41st Chess Olympiad

Published: Sat, 08/09/14

Newsletter Issue Tactics Time Newsletter 41st Chess Olympiad

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41st Chess Olympiad

"Ohhh... Intelligent, classy, well-dressed people + fit, platinum blondes w sexy Euro accents... Its like James Bond but better!" ~ @bryansanchezUSA describing the tournament on twitter


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his position comes from the game WGM Melanie Ohme of Germany (2301) vs WGM Olga Girya of Russia (2484), Round 4 of the 41st Chess Olympiad, played this past week in Norway.

White to move.

Answer below.

This game and position was brought to my attention by my newsletter reader Vince, AKA "Uncle Vinny".

Vince writes:

   I don't know if you subscribe to Daniel King's youtube channel, but he's been interviewing lots of players at the Chess Olympiad, asking them about how they learned chess, how their games are going, etc.

   Yesterday he interviewed Melanie Ohme, a player from Germany, who mentioned that she'd had an exciting victory that day over Olga Girya of Russia.

   Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sIOLDQdfRY

   Anyway! The tactics puzzle is move 37. White to move. Black has just played 36. ...Rh2. I've attached an image of the board to the email, and you can find the full game here: https://chess24.com/en/olympiad2014/live/olympiad2014women/4/5/3

   Enjoy!
   Vince

TB:

Thanks Vince!

This is a very nice tactic indeed!

BTW, if you want to know more about the Olympiad that is going on, here is a quick summary of the event from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Chess_Olympiad

The 41st Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, takes place in Tromsø, Norway from 1 August to 14 August 2014.

Total number of 1,570 players participate at the Olympiad, with 881 in the open and 689 in the women's section. The number of participating teams is 177 from 172 countries in the open section and 136 from 131 countries in the women's section.

The reigning World Champion, Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, is one of the eight official ambassadors. He also plays on board one for the Norwegian team.

All of the major chess websites are covering the event - I really liked the interface on the https://chess24.com/en/olympiad2014 website that Vince mentioned, which is the official website of the event.

Here is the game in PGN

[Event '41st Olympiad Women']
[Site 'Tromsø, Norway']
[Date '2014.08.05']
[Round '4']
[White 'Ohme, Melanie']
[Black 'Girya, Olga']
[ECO 'B48']
[WhiteElo '2301']
[BlackElo '2484']
[Result '1-0']

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Qd2 Nf6 8. f4 Bb4 9. Bd3 Na5 10. a3 Bxc3 11. Qxc3 Qxc3+ 12. bxc3 d5 13. e5 Ne4 14. Nb3 Nc4 15. Bxc4 dxc4 16. Na5 Bd7 17. Bd4 Rc8 18. Nxb7 Bc6 19. Na5 Bd5 20. Rb1 Kd7 21. Ke2 f5 22. Rb6 Rhg8 23. Rg1 g5 24. fxg5 f4 25. h4 h6 26. gxh6 Rg4 27. Rxa6 Rxh4 28. Bb6 Rxh6 29. Ra7+ Ke8 30. Rg7 Rh8 31. Bd4 Rb8 32. Rc7 Kd8 33. Rxc4 Rb2 34. Rb4 Rxc2+ 35. Kd1 Rd2+ 36. Kc1 Rh2 37. Bb6+ Kd7 38. Rxe4 Ra2 39. Rxf4

1-0

You can play through this game here: http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id=4690745.4195752.63685632.28429

Answer:

White first clears the bishop out of the way with check 37. Bb6+ Kd7 which allows the removal of the guard tactic with 38.Rxe4! taking the black knight which was protecting the rook on d2. Black doesn't have time to recapture the white rook, and save his own rook. If 38...Bxd4 39.Kxd2. White wins a piece.

Happy Tactics!

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