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• TZAAR: Puzzle #6

  Win in one turn

  Jun 25, 2026TZAAR★★★

  

  Another beginner puzzle in TZAAR from ivyed_seer. White to move. Win in one turn.

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• TZAAR: Puzzle #5

  Simple but elegant

  Jun 23, 2026TZAAR★★★

  

  Start of the ivyed_seer puzzle series: a player ranked second worldwide in TZAAR on Little Golem. Find the winning move for Black.

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• TZAAR: Puzzle #4

  Hard, but doable

  Jun 21, 2026TZAAR★★★

  

  Another TZAAR puzzle — many branches, so quite challenging.

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• TZAAR: Puzzle #3

  Find a win for White

  Jun 18, 2026TZAAR★★★

  

  Beginner puzzle in TZAAR from a real game.

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• TZAAR: Puzzle #2

  Can White win?

  Jun 10, 2026TZAAR★★★

  

  Another tactical study in TZAAR — White to move and find a winning plan.

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• TZAAR: Puzzle #1

  Can White win?

  May 28, 2026TZAAR★★★

  

  This position arose at the TZAAR World Championship in Prague during the 2008 Central European Mind Sports Olympiad.

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• Cat & Comb: when everything went wrong

  Where was the mistake?

  May 22, 2026 3 min readCat-a-comb

  

  A tense game ended in a White loss. But where was the mistake?

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• Cat & Comb: no way out?

  May 19, 2026 1 min readCat-a-comb

  

  Is it already mate, or can Black still fix things?

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