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Free Dacha Tactic & Special Offer!

🔥Keep your Dacha color theory eyes sharp with this Dacha tactic! "Trapped" horsie shows its worth in light. IM Yaacov's Hint: Not a very difficult one, but instructive nonetheless. Our knight seems trapped amidst his kingside pawns. But wait – what's the color $? We have

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Free Dacha Tactic & Site Updates

🔥Keep your Dacha color theory eyes sharp with this Dacha tactic! Golden Bishop - oozing dark energies. IM Yaacov's Hint: Black has a nice golden dark bishop, and with the white king on dark, there promises to be juicy ideas. Also note how white has little to no

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New Video Lesson!

🔥We have just added a new video lesson of IM Yaacov playing and discussing (with color themes) several live games! Would you like a chance to have a one-on-one mini-Zoom session with IM Yaacov? Submit your best color-themed Dacha-style tactic to us, as a PGN file. IM Yaacov will review

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Free Dacha Tactic

🔥Keep your Dacha color theory eyes sharp with this Dacha tactic! Light Zwischenzug - with dark intentions. IM Yaacov's Hint: Fischer vs Geller miniature. Black's King on f8 is not safe. And with our Golden Dark bishop helping out, its days are numbered. How to most

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New Dacha Video & Tactics!

🔥We have just added a new video lesson of IM Yaacov playing and discussing (with color themes) several live games! We've added 3 new Dacha tactics! Here's one to try out. Can you solve "CrissCross Dacha"? IM Yaacov's hint: This is a

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Free Dacha Tactic

🔥Keep your Dacha color theory eyes sharp with this Dacha tactic! Unlocking the gates. IM Yaacov's Hint: A cool position I saw in a game, with the tricky GM Daniel Naroditsky manning the black pieces. We are down a rook, but lots of pressure on the white king.

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Free Dacha Tactic

🔥Keep your Dacha color theory eyes sharp with this Dacha tactic! Cashing in all that dark money. IM Yaacov's Hint: A short but sweet tactic I recently had. As always, we begin with color money. The imbalance is our dark bishop vs his light, which gives us +1000

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New Dacha Tactic!

🔥We have added 1 new color-themed Dacha tactic since our last newsletter! Have you been keeping up with your sparring practice? If you haven't been keeping up, here's an interesting tactic that we call "Sleeping Bishop" IM Yaacov's Hint: A cool Budapest

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New Dacha Video & Tactics!

🔥We have just added a new video lesson of IM Yaacov playing and discussing (with color themes) several live games! We've added 6 new Dacha tactics! Here's one to try out. Can you solve "Light Ping Pong"? IM Yaacov's hint: We have

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New Video Lesson!

🔥We have just added a new video lesson of IM Yaacov playing and discussing (with color themes) several live games! Would you like a chance to have a one-on-one mini-Zoom session with IM Yaacov? Submit your best color-themed Dacha-style tactic to us, as a PGN file. IM Yaacov will review