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The position is by Life Master Joel Johnson, who just released his new  book " Positional Attacks " In the position below it is  White to move .  Joel writes:    The following game is an excerpt from my new book, "Positional Attacks". The book was released on February 28, 2014.    Fatal Weakness    Just one weak square in your opponent's defensive stronghold can give rise to a terminal attack. The ability to manufacture and/or identify existing weaknesses in your opponent's position is a lethal skill to possess.    The moves are easy to see if your eyes can easily spot the weakness in the Black position.    Here is the complete game [Event "Casual Game"] [Site "London"] [Date "1892.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Wordsworth Donisthorpe"] [Black "Mundell"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C46"] [PlyCount "29"] [EventDate "1892.??.??"

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Destroy the pin attack of white, Black to play..

White to play The position I am posting is given by one of my close friend Pranav Tangsale of Satara...Its white to move..White has a material advantage of queen against rook..But things are not so easy for White as his pieces are stuck and black's pawn is just a single square away from promoting...Calculate all the variations..and comment below.

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White to play The position I am showing is from Blake's  Chess Endgame for beginners...White is two pawn up and should be of course winning here, but things are not so easy as Black has a stalemate threat..So here moves like f3 or f4 are forced.Black has no other option than to recapture with the pawn..But do you think that white can win this game ?? Calculate all the variations..And comment your answer till white wins..

White to play  Another Endgame Study for Advance players...White has a queen but Black's pawn are close enough to promote...Its White to play...Can you find the correct solution ???

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I was just surfing the net today...Suddenly  I herd a message tone on facebook...I opened it and I got few positions from my friend Chinmay Kelaskar of Mumbai who posted me some positions.We had a chat as he requested me to post it on blog..I too found these position interesting..So here they are White is in check so has to move his king..But the real question is where ?..If the king moves to g7 black will play Re7 and will make a draw...If the king goes on the f- file Black will move his rook to e2 and skewers.And the king can't also leave the pawn...So calculate carefully as Black also has some tricks at his disposal Second position is White to play both players are just one square away from promoting.. If white promotes his pawn...Black will also promote his pawn.As white cannot capture the Queen as it is a stalemate..So think carefully and calculate few moves ahead... And the last one is the Gem of all..Now this one is tough one...Position only for advance playe

The position I want to show is from the recent games of U-9 states held at Aurangabad White to play Here in this position Black has just played his knight to e4 attacking the White's queen..Now the queen is under attack and have to move on a safe square..But the question here is which square..Calculate all the possibilities and comment below

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'  Have look at this position.White has an advantage of bishop pair..But the position is close...So the natural plan for White will be willing to play  f4...and try to open the postion..Black on the other hand have to be active..He have to counter attack on the queen side with some moves like b5..But the direct b5 move will be wrong here as white will respond with f4 and it is hard to see what black will  do? So find the correct plan for Black

The position is from a tournament game...White offered a draw claming that its a draw.Now its Black's move  He thought that after 1...c4 + 2Ka3 Kc5 3.Ka4 Kxd5 white will play Kb4 and he might be in  zugzwang   and will loose the c4 pawn.  Both players were not willing to take risk and  agreed a draw here...Can you assets the position correctly ??

Its my game versus Atharva ,P. I am having Black pieces this time....White has just played Qh5 intending to attack on king side which might be premature....How can black take advantage of this postion ?? Please post all your calculations

(Position after Black's Rh6) Its my game against Kahane Bhavesh..I was having white pieces and was exited with the fact that Black's king was still in the center,so my basic enctint was to attack some how on the king.I made some premature moves in order to attack his king before..After thinking I released that Black has a threat of Rg6 hitting my g2 pawn..And it would be helped by the monster of b7                      I played the terrible move Na5??? putting the knight on rim without thinking as I wanted to swap the bishop first. Now its Black to play Black has a long think of 20 minutes and played the move which I didn't calculated..Can you guess what I missed in the game..and calculate all the variations?? My opponent played that move but didn't continue correctly..Can you do better than my opponent ?? 

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Its my game against a metebiyik...The game is still in the opening phase. White has a a lead in development,strong threat of Nc7+...In the game I played Nc7+ which looks perfectly natural. But is there any better move than Nc7+. Calculate all the move and comment below

This is from my online game Black has just played Qxg5...Please analyse all the variation and submit your calcuations or check the full game below

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This position is Guico Piano. As you can see White has played Qd2 in order to sac his bishop on h6..Black ignored or might have not seen it.. So my question is Is Bh6 sac working for white?? please comment with full analysis and tell me till what have you calculated