The April Clinic once again features games from the Tigerchess.com Themed Training team tournaments. There were three different starting positions for the tournaments selected, the Steinitz French (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7), the Tarrasch French (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5) and the Gruenfeld Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 c5). All these lines feature in Tiger Chess opening repertoires.

Black managed to bring off a nice finish in one of the Gruenfeld games. White had just played 23.Qb2-a1 in order to defend the back rank, but how did Black forced immediate resignation with his next move?

Black played 23..Qxc2! after which 24.Rxc2 Rd1+ leads to mate. White resigned at this point (0-1).

Nigel Davies