Chess Tactics from the Olympiad, Baku 2016.

After the rather mundane super Grandmaster tournament the Sinquefield cup (please see Radio Jans caustic satirical expose of the gloom) the Chess Olympiad came as refreshing drops of dew on a parched and scorched land. On open tournament with the worlds best players all vying for valours glory! Not only were there some amazing team performances, the American ladies dismantling of the Russian ladies was phenomenal, but some great Individual efforts as well. Latvia's Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola defeating the reigning ladies world champion Hou Yifan with a rating difference of 400 points! not that it made much difference though! GM Baadur Jobava was like a force of nature on board one for the Georgians and GM Fabiano Caruana produced a beautiful positional and strategic masterpiece against Canadian supremo Evgeny Bareev. (Please see chess expert David Luscombes excellent analysis) The following are some tactical puzzles taken directly form the games themselves. Some are relatively easy and some quite difficult and some the players themselves missed! although I have included the game moves. Its my hope that you get as much enjoyment from solving them as I did when following the games. As ever my thanks go to the software developers who made this chess video possible through the generous sharing of their resources and to those artists who's material I have used. Also to those who provided encouragement, many thanks.   / msk.chess   https://www.chess.com/blog/robbie_196... chess, echecs , ajedrez , xadrez , shahmati , szachy , sjakk , schach , schaken , satranj , шахматы , شطرنج