Tactic #1 GM Wesley So vs. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
[fen flip=true]r2q1rk1/5pbp/2p3p1/1p2pb2/8/1PNP2P1/P1Q1PP1P/R1B1K2R b KQ - 0 1[/fen]
Tactic #2 GM Levon Aronian vs. GM Fabiano Caruana
[fen]4r3/2p1P1kp/1pPnB3/8/p3R3/P7/1P4PP/6K1 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move.
Caruana just played 36...Nd6, attacking Aronian's rook. How did one of the current tournament leaders respond?
Tactic #3 GM Anish Giri vs. GM Alexander Grischuk
[fen]5rk1/p3bppp/b1R1pn2/1q2N3/N2PP3/6PP/P1QB1PBK/r7 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move.
How did Giri turn his better placed pieces into a material advantage?
Tactic #4 GM Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Viswanathan Anand
[fen]1nr1b1k1/2r5/p2bp2p/5pp1/P4P2/1N1B2P1/2RBP2P/2R2K2 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move.
Anand just made a mistake with 36...Nb8. How did Nakamura gain the upper hand against the former world champion?
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