A great Friday challenge for you! It’s a mating attack, which needs forcing moves. The toughest defense makes you go eight moves.

White’s the exchange down and his queen is attacked, so it is necessary to come up with something—quickly!

It is Black’s move, and White is threatening a mate in one. How should Black stop White from winning?

This position is won so many different ways. Gligoric picked a very imaginative way.

This position is from a wonderful out-of-print tactics book called Tactical Chess Training by GM Leonid Shamkovich and Jan R. Cartier.

White has just played 1.Nf4, attacking the Black d5 pawn. How should Black respond?