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Girl Power on the Chessboard: 10 Tactics from Round 1 of the Women's Olympiad in Budapest!
Discover 10 tactics from Round 1 of the Women's Olympiad in Budapest. See how girl power shines on the chessboard!

Girl Power on the Chessboard: 10 Tactics from Round 1 of the Women's Olympiad in Budapest!

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Today I bring you a post about the first round of the Olympiad in Budapest, a city I've always wanted to visit. I've passed there several times, but only on my way to Serbia. However, it's definitely on my list of countries to visit soon.

I reviewed the games from the first round of the women's teams and noticed a lot of aggression and interesting tactics, so I’d like to share these 10 examples with you. There were more, but these are the ones that caught my attention the most. Many are simple tactics that we are used to seeing in the daily puzzles on chess.com.

I hope you enjoy them! If you saw any other examples that I didn’t include, please comment, and I’d love to incorporate them into my lessons.

Puzzle 1: The Brave Queen

Puzzle 2: The Crazy Bishop

A few puzzles involving sacrificing the bishop on h7! It's crazy how many of these I found in this round. Be careful with h7, guys!

Puzzle 3: Bxh7

Puzzle 4: Bxh7

Puzzle 5: Bxh7

Puzzle 6: Bxh7

Puzzle 7: The Pin

Puzzle 8: A rook, two bishops, and a queen say hello!

Puzzle 9: Decoy

Puzzle 10: Nxd5!! ... and Black pieces cry

I hope you enjoyed these puzzles. As mentioned earlier, if you saw any others from the first round of the women’s Olympiad, don’t hesitate to share them. I liked these a lot, though I also saw other nice ones.

I was planning to upload a line I’m preparing to play with White this week, but with the big event we’re experiencing right now, the Olympiad, it doesn’t make much sense.

See you around and make your opponents cry, respectfully, of course!

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Let me tell you a little bit about my chess background. I started playing chess at the age of 8 because I wanted to defeat my best friend at the time. What can I say? I am super competitive, but I have become a better person now!

So after a lot of chess lessons, I became a provincial and national youth champion. Also, I got second place in the Pan American U-20 Championship (2012) and 10th place in the World Youth Chess Championship (2011), and I earned the FIDE Master title at 15. My peak FIDE rating was 2190.


At the moment, I am not playing OTB that much because I am a full-time chess coach.

Well, let's speak about what the blog is about! I have decided to write some articles about my chess experience, my students' stories, and whatever I can share with you that has to do with chess, basically.


Finally, I hope you like at least a few of them, and I am open to any suggestions! So see you around and make your opponents cry, not your friends! happy