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The right approach

by Oliver Reeh
11/20/2015 Tactics can seem deceptively simple, particularly when seeing an engine analysing grandmaster
games. Strange, however, how difficult it is to find the right move and to calculate variations properly when
playing yourself. It is easier if you solve tactical puzzles regularly. In the ChessBase Magazine and his tactics
column Oliver Reeh helps you to do so.

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Black is threatening 32...Rxa2. Should White defend a2, try to exploit his advanced h-pawn or attack the
black king on d7?
Make your choice!
A) 32.Bc4
B) 32.Nxf7
C) 32.Rxd5+
Solution

Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine

Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by tactic expert Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine, where
you will also find openings articles and surveys, endgames, and of course annotations by the world's top
grandmasters.

Click to go to the ChessBase Magazine page

ChessBase Magazine #168 (October/November)

Catastrophe in the
Opening is a study of how
the games of
contemporary players go
awry the initial stages of
the game and as such, will
prove instructive at all
levels. Its designed to help you avoid disaster
in your own games.

On this DVD, we will look

at a simple-to-learn yet
surprisingly effective
system that White can
play after 1 d4 d5. In all
cases White will play 2 c4
- and if given the chance, 3 cxd5!

Oliver Reeh
Oliver Reeh is an International Master, lives in Hamburg, and plays for the "Hamburger Schachklub"
in the "Bundesliga". He is a long-time member of the ChessBase team, and regularly entertains and
educates readers with his tactic column in the ChessBase Magazine. He is also co-author of the
popular DVDs on Bobby Fischer, Mihhail Tal, Alexander Alekhine, and Jos Raul Capablanca appearing in the
ChessBase Master Class Series.
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Sampru 11/20/2015 06:10
A good example of the process of elimination. Nxf7 and Bc4 are easily refuted, leaving only
Rxd5, which is otherwise fairly complicated to calculate. Of course, at the board, we would
have to consider more than the three possibilities given.

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