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SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for MONDAY, March 20th, 2023! Two Black to play and win puzzles for your eyes to feast upon! Enjoy’em solvers! Yours in chess ~ Sean Tobin!

SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Sunday March 19th of 2023. Two to grow on! Happy solving - crush it during your next chess games!! Have a good one ~ Sean Tobin.

Three Chess Puzzles to grow on in this edition of SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Saturday, March 18th, 2023. Enjoy’em! May you crush all challenges on and off the chessboard! ~ Sean Tobin

SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Friday March 17th, 2023. Congratulations to viewer Pranav Eswar for being the first person to catch an error in Puzzle 2 from yesterday’s edition of SOCP (03/16/2023)! The variation given actually allows a checkmate in 5 moves and not 6 as given in the solution. With correct play the puzzle still results in a 6 move checkmate but Black plays a different defense. Once again congratulations to Pranav for his tricky move that seal the deal a move earlier! I give both coverage in today’s edition of SOCP plus two new puzzles for you to solve. Thanks again for stopping by - wishing you and yours all the best in life! ~ Sean Tobin

SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Thursday March 16th, 2023. Two puzzles for you today: The first is a challenge while the second is intermediate in difficulty. Just remember when it comes to puzzles ratings or difficulty levels what you find easy might be more of a challenge for others and vice versa. Enjoy’em and no matter what learn from them! Yours on and off the chessboard, Sean Tobin

SPOT ON... chess game for your viewing pleasure today! Phenomenal game... played way back when in 1620. Greco versus "NN" - which stands for No Name! We don't know who his opponent was, which is a shame. Because that person would have been recognized for leaving behind a beautiful contribution to World Chess Art - despite having lost the game. So... make sure you know how to record a game of chess! I hope you learned a little something from today's tactical chess Puzzle... please find the game given in PGN notation down below and enjoy this masterpiece! ~ Sean. [Event "Casual Chess Game"] [Site "Italy?"] [Date "1620.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "0-1"] [White "NN"] [Black "Gioachino Greco"] [ECO "C02"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be3 c4 7.b3 b5 8.a4 a6 9.axb5 axb5 10.Rxa8 Qxa8 11.bxc4 dxc4 12.Be2 Nge7 13.O-O Nd5 14.Bd2 Be7 15.Ng5 Bxg5 16.Bxg5 O-O 17.Bf3 Na5 18.Bxd5 Qxd5 19.f4 Bc6 20.Qd2 Nb3 21.Qc2 Nxd4 22.cxd4 Qxd4+ 23.Kh1 Be4 24.Qc3 Qc5 25.Nd2 Bd3 26.Rc1 Rc8 27.Nb3 cxb3 28.Qxc5 Rxc5 29.Rxc5 h6 30.Rc3 b2 31.Rb3 b1=Q+ 32.Rxb1 Bxb1 33.Be7 Kh7 34.g4 Be4+ 35.Kg1 Bf3 36.h3 h5 37.g5 Kg6 38.Kf2 Bd5 39.Ke3 h4 40.Kf2 Kf5 41.Ke3 Bg2 42.Bf8 g6 43.Bb4 Bxh3 44.Be1 Kg4 45.Bd2 Bg2 46.Kf2 h3 47.Bc1 Bd5 48.Kg1 Kg3 49.Be3 h2+ 50.Kf1 h1=Q+ 0-1

A quick look at a beautiful tactic in todays edition of SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Tuesday, March 14th, 2023. This one is from a game… played in 1620!!! Pro-tip: Always check every line from every line piece on the board. Queens, Rooks and Bishops. Yours and your opponent’s!

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SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Sunday, March 12th, 2023. A review of Lasker versus Bauer as a brief chess movie, with takeaways and Tactics named from the game. An explanation of the endgame is given as some folks were wondering why Black finally resigned the game when he did. Enjoy the chess hostilities! ~ Sean Tobin.

SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Saturday, March 11th 2023. A couple of easier puzzles to warm up with for your Saturday. Enjoy'em ~ Sean.

SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES for Thursday, March 9th of 2023. Today we delve a bit deeper into the opening play of Lasker versus Bauer, look at why modern masters wouldn't play in the manner Lasker did upon his third move and how Bauer could even still offer up some interesting plays and all right out of the opening. We then break down into greater detail a tactic from the game where we look at the set-up and then the material winning move. As always I hope you enjoy todays presentation of SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES. Wishing you and yours all the best in life and at the board. ~ Sean Tobin.

Some photos from the Blitz side event that me and my Portland Chess Playing friends attended... A photo from the IM John Donaldson lecture, four photos from a round four analysis session between Grandmasters MORADIABADI and KACHIYAN - which was drawn. One final photo from the actual Open tournament. Great times - enjoy them as they happen because everything flows past quicker and quicker as we age out of the great game of life.

In today's edition of SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES we take a look at a recent blitz game I played against a chess program on the INTERNET CHESS CLUB (ICC). Some nice basic to low intermediate lessons to be learned from this game. The program I played was the "JSBach" personality at the time control of 3 minutes and 3 seconds increment. Always fun with my lag issues! Anyways... Enjoy today's puzzles and brief chess movie with take-aways. If you have any requests, suggestions or discussions you would like to have please feel free to leave those in the comments section. Wishing you all the best and may you always play your best moves! ~ Sean.

Three warm-up puzzles and then an Expert level Puzzle for those looking for a bigger challenge. I removed the “partitions” between positions to be solved, having all three warm-up puzzles grouped together. You may want to be at the ready to still pause the play…. Obviously I am still playing around with the format. I am also trying to keep these clips short and sweet as well… Let me know what works for you and your preferences in the comments down below! I hope you enjoy today’s chess puzzles - Happy Solving! ~ Sean Tobin

Two Puzzles reviewed in detail, how to read and write chess notation briefly reviewed and a few photos to spice up the presentation. I hope you enjoy the puzzles and their explanations. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them down below. Thanks for viewing todays presentation of SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES. Please help out with a Like, and Subscribe so you can get notified about future editions of SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLES. Have a great rest of your day and may you play the best moves this week and crush all obstacles in your way! Peace ~ Sean Tobin.

It's Monday - time for our chess puzzles! The two given positions for solving at the end of the clip are for Tuesday - tomorrow. They will be a bit easier to solve than some of our previous puzzles. As always if you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to leave them in the comments section and I will answer them as soon as I can. I hope you enjoy today's solutions and puzzles! Thanks for watching this clip. Stay well and be well ~ Sean.

Its time for Sundays SPOT ON CHESS PUZZLE! Solution to Saturday's complex puzzle and two new chess problems for your tactical workout today! So with that let's take a look... get ready and strap on your thinking caps because you are about to be on the chess ride of your life!

Today's Chess Puzzle is a two in one... We start off with a nice one mover and then look at a more complex position for solving. The solution for the second puzzle will be reviewed in tomorrows post for March 5th, 2023. If you appreciated my efforts here on RUMBLE, please help out with a Like, maybe a share and even consider Subscribing. Thanks for having "checked" out todays chess puzzle! Wishing you and yours all the best - Peace! ~ Sean.

Happy Friday! Let's get the weekend started off right... with a chess puzzle. Not such a difficult one this time out. As always you can pause the video and take whatever amount of time you need. I hope you enjoy today's puzzle - may you devastate your next opponent with a tactical masterpiece! Thanks for viewing and have a great weekend! ~ S

Todays chess puzzle comes from one of my casual correspondence games played on the Internet Chess Club. A nice combination ensues after a surprising move kicks off the hostilities. Enjoy! ~ S.

Today we have a puzzle from a blitz game won by Hou Yifan versus Alexandra Kosteniuk. Yifan won a nice little game... WHITE TO PLAY and WIN! I give the game score down below - so no cheating! Hou Yifan is the World's highest rated female player by the MARCH 2023 FIDE Rating list... However this does not even qualify Yifan as one of the top 100 players of the World at this time as she just missed the bottom rung of that list. So few people get to the level that Hou Yifan is at that it is almost meaningless to talk about who's in the top 100 list... out of 7 Billion or however many people are alive currently. She's clearly one of the best and I look forward to seeing her future works of chess art! TODAYS GAME: [Event "Speed Chess (Women)"] [White "Hou,Yifan"][Black "Kosteniuk,Alexandra"] [Site "Chess.com INT"][Round "2.15"] [Annotator "Sean Tobin"][Result "1-0"] [Date Played "2022.07.28"] [WhiteElo "2650"][BlackElo "2510"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. Re1 O-O 8. c3 d5 9. d3 Bg4 10. Nbd2 dxe4 11. dxe4 Bc5 12. h3 Be6 13. Qe2 Nh5 14. Nf1 Qf6 15. Bd5 Bd7 16. Bg5 Qg6 17. b4 Bb6 18. Rad1 Rae8 19. Kh2 h6 20. Bc1 Nf4 21. Bxf4 exf4 22. e5 Nb8 23. Be4 Qh5 24. Rxd7 Nxd7 25. g4 fxg3+ 26. Nxg3 1-0 Thanks for stopping by and for taking a look at todays puzzle. If you like chess and enjoyed this combination please either Like, Share and or Subscribe. Thanks again and may you always play the best moves in the greatest game of them all: the game of life! ~ S.

WHITE TO PLAY & WIN... Another day, another chess puzzle! Best way to warm up the old brain! Enjoy and salud! ~ S

GREAT CHESS EVENTS from the PAST that I had ORGANIZED: FIDE MASTER NICK RAPTIS SIMULTANEOUS CHESS EXHIBITION from Sunday 03/03/2013. A truly great event - FIDE MASTER NICK RAPTIS really generates a lot of interest in chess... and always puts on a good show. Each and every chess game. In this event Nick played way more chess games than merely "26"... many participants would play one game after the other against and Mr Raptis acquiesced to each and every time. We also had many passersby stop in and jump into the event after it had begun. Folks would take over a board as players were defeated and bowed out. The official tally was 26 games - but there were way more games than that played that Sunday! I used to run a chess club at the Cedar Hills Crossing until the Mall management team lost interest in fully supporting chess events and meetings at that location. The club would later go on to meet at many other locations and would successfully promote chess and bring many more players to the table. Giving people something constructive to do was a source of great pleasure for me. To all of the folks that hosted the club we owe a debt of gratitude. Many thanks to them, one and all. And I want to especially thank every single person that ever attended the chess club and showcased good sportsmanship and camaraderie. Ultimately the chess club would cease meeting as life circumstances changed my schedule. But the historical record still stands - we made chess fun and accessible to many, many Oregonians. Something I am still proud of til this day! Enjoy the Photo Gallery presentation from this excellent event. Perhaps someday I will get back to organizing chess and will be able to put on such great events again! Many thanks to one and all former members of the club! You made it fun and you made it all worthwhile. Stay healthy, be well and always play the best moves in the greatest game of all: the game of life! ~ Sean Tobin. (c) All photos Sean Tobin. All rights reserved.

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