Tactics

  • In chess, tactics focus on short-term actions. It is a forced combination of moves, that allow you to make progress towards achieving your objectives.

  • It involves calculation and thinking ahead and leads to an advantage or a winning position!

  • The depth of calculation depends on the player's ability. The more you practice, the faster you calculate, the more patterns you recognize, and the stronger you become!

Tactics

Basic Tactics

 

  • Pins

  • Forks

  • Skewers

  • Batteries

  • Discovery attacks and discovery check

  • Double Check

Intermediate Tactics

 

  • Zwischenzugs

  • Decoys

  • Sacrifice

  • Interference

  • Undermining

  • Overloading

Advanced Tactics

 

  • Multi move calculations!

Examples of Tactics!

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Tactic: Skewer

White Skewers the enemy king and wins the rook!

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Tactic: Castling!

White castles into a check and captures the enemy rook.

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Scholar’s Mate

The classic 4 move checkmate!

 Did you know there is a 2 move checkmate?

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Fool’s Mate!

Two Move Checkmate!