Daily Dacha Tactics
Each day we add a Dacha color-themed tactic for interactive play. Test your color theory and enjoy!
Dacha Tactics #5
This was one of my favorites vs Magnus Carlsen. Through out the game I was proudly showing off my golden dark bishop lurking on b2. After many escapades, it netted me an extra piece. The finish is pretty, and will naturally relate to dark -- note our pressure on the
Dacha Tactics #4
Here white is in a commanding position. A better pawn structure with a kingside attack well underway. One could calculate some possible breakthrough lines but why not get some color background first to give us insight! So the imbalance here is our knight vs his light bishop. Meaning -- we
Dacha Tactics #3
Here we begin by looking at the color imbalance. Well it's a light (golden!) bishop for us, vs a knight for him. This means we are ahead on light (albeit behind on dark). The juicy part is that to top it off, white has no mini light bishops
Dacha Tactics #2
Black has an open h file which could be promising for a kingside attack. In addition , the color money is interesting -- we have a knight vs his light bishop, which means we are behind on light and ahead on dark. All this means that dark squares are especially vulnerable
Dacha Tactics #1
There is a color imbalance here: Black has a light-squared bishop against White's knight, so Black is up on light money, and his light-squared bishop is his golden bishop. Therefore, if there are tactics here -- it would make sense for them to be on light squares, as
