
56 Tactics That All Chess Players Should Know
For easy reference the tactics are listed in alphabetical order:
- Absolute Pin
- Advanced Pawn
- Alekhine’s Gun
- Attraction
- Battery
- Capture the Defender
- Clearance
- Counter Threat
- Cross-check
- Cross-pin
- Decoy
- Deflection
- Demolition of Pawn Structure
- Desperado
- Discovered Attack
- Domination
- Double Attack
- Double Check
- Draw Tactics
- Endgame Tactics
- f2 (or f7) weakness
- Fork
- Hit-and-run
- Greek Gift Sacrifice
- Indirect Defense
- Interference
- Opposition
- Overload the Defender
- Pawn-Fork
- Pawn Tactics
- Pawn Breakthrough
- Perpetual Attack
- Perpetual Check
- Pins
- Positional Tactic
- Queen and Bishop Battery
- Relative Pin
- Remove the Defender
- Sacrifice
- Simplification
- Situational Pin
- Skewer
- Stalemate Tactics
- Tempo Tactics
- Trapped Piece
- Triangulation
- Two Rooks Battery
- Two Rooks on 7th Rank
- Under-promotion
- Weak Back-Rank
- Windmill
- X-Ray
- X-Ray Attack
- X-Ray Defense
- Zugzwang
- Zwischenzug
Note: The above list of chess tactics exclude common checkmate patterns.