Chess Chatter Challenges #3

A weekly assortment of positions to think about

Hey everyone! After a short hiatus I’m back with the third week of Chess Chatter Challenges. If you want to see the second week’s positions then you can find them here: https://chesschatter.substack.com/p/chess-chatter-challenges-2

And here is a video explaining the answers to the six positions from the last challenge post:

Alright, so on to week number three! For this week, we will be taking a look at six positions that came from the 1000GM Thanksgiving IM Norm-1 tournament. For this week there will be three tactical puzzles, two positional puzzles and one endgame puzzle. The number of the puzzle and which side is to move is in the caption below each position.

TACTICAL

#1 White to move

#2 Black to move

#3 Black to move

POSITIONAL

#4 White to move

#5 White to move

ENDGAME

#6 Black to move

Feel free to reply to this post in your email inbox or email me at chesschatter@substack.com with your answers. I will be posting the answers to these puzzles in next week’s blog post.

Happy solving!