Wednesday Workout: FIDE World Rapid & Blitz, Pt. 11 (Lenderman)

This week's Wednesday Workout continues our series on the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships, held December 26 – 31 in New York.

Our coverage of the rapid and blitz events focused on the winners, but several dozen Americans competed and many gained rating and delivered some nice upsets. So, we'll be taking a look at their games for the next few weeks!

 

GM Alexander Lenderman at the 2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships
Photo courtesy of Maria Emelianova/FIDE

 

This week's puzzles all feature games of GM Alexander Lenderman, a local New Yorker who had a strong FIDE World Blitz Championship, finishing with an 8½/13 score and six wins against fellow GMs. Lenderman was kind enough to annotate his victory over world number six GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov for the May issue of Chess Life magazine, but a sneak peek of one of his variations is featured in puzzle six. Yesterday's Tactics Tuesday also features Lenderman highlights that are suitable to less experienced tacticians.  

 

Wednesday Workout worksheet for April 2, 2025

 

Download our printable worksheet, or solve along with our interactive study.
 

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