Some combinations from the games of GM Florian Jenni

To get you in the right mood for the Winterthur Chess Week 2008, we present a series of combinational exercises taken from the games of the participating grandmasters.

In this second part, we have chosen six combinations from the games of the Swiss GM Florian Jenni, who has won the Winterthur Chess Week in 2005.

Have a lot of fun finding these tactical blows!

John Trevelyan (WLS) –
Florian Jenni (SUI)
EU-chT (Men) 15th 2005, round 1

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Florian Jenni was one of the top-scorers at the 2005 European team championships in Gothenburg with 6.5 points out of 8.

Playing with black here, what move lead to his first win in the tournament?

 

Martin Reinke (GER) –
Florian Jenni (SUI)
Biel MTO 2007, round 1

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White has just taken one of black's pawns (27. Qh5xd5). How did Black proove that this pawn was poisened?

 

Petri Lehtivaara (FIN) –
Florian Jenni (SUI)
SMM NLA 2008, round 1

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How could Black have won this game immediately?

 

Florian Jenni (SUI) –
Lukazs Cyberowski (POL)
Olympiad 2004 (Calvia), round 9

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Should Black rather head for the pawn ending after 30.de: Qe5: 31.Qe5: fe:
32.Rg7:+ Rg7: 33.Rg7:+ or search for something else?