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1/ To mark our return, here are 5 of our favourite puzzles and combinations, Check in daily for spectacular studies and even better solutions.

Many ways to win, what's your choice? White to play

How to promote? White to play and win!

Geometry Heaven! White to play and win!

Solutions - 28/05 1- Kollarik 2011 2- Komatzu 1969 3- Kolpalov 1990

How does White cleverly navigate their pieces in this exciting end-game? Kolpalov 1990

Can you find the right moves to give White the victory in this 1969 Komatzu game?

White to play in this 2011 Kollarik game.

Here are the solutions, how did you do?

Bend your mind around this! White to play and win Knoppel 1961

@wyahaw Bravo sir!

@EliteMindSports 1. Nd4+ Kf6 2. Nc6 … neatly blocks. Whichever piece takes on c6, one of the a or c pawns will queen.

Two pawns stopped in their tracks? White to play and win - Kok 1940.

How good are your conversion skills? White to play and win by Grigoriev 1937

Solutions - 26/05/2025 1- Troitzky 1908 2- Rossi 2004 3- Niemierski 1966

A case of dancing bishops, how can White find the win in Niemierski's 1966 game?

Ramping it up with some Knight action. White to play and win in this 2004 Rossi game.

Starting the week off with two fighting bishops. White to play - Troitzky 1908

Solutions - 25/05/2025 Hopefully the end of the week treated you well! 1- Thiem 1986 2- Nadareishvili 1986 3- Nerong 2011

@GMPeteWells Typical chess strategy there 😂

@EliteMindSports About 20 seconds, but mainly on the basis of 'if that doesn't work I can't imagine what will'!

If it was all on the line and you had half an hour to find White's winning plan here, could you do it? Thiem 1986.

@Humanpapers Hahaha, I think this solution’s very beautiful

@EliteMindSports Beautiful. Kf6 Kg8/a3 Re5 If black takes the rook, black will queen before white, but white's promotion will result in checkmate. If black persists in moving the king, white's rook gets to pick up the threatening pawns. Took me five minutes -- *after seeing the solution* 😭

Not for Amateurs, White to play in this fork spectacular: Nerong 2011.