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How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??

How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??

How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??

I got 1300 in blitz!!! Thank you all for supporting me and teaching me!!! Check out my game that got me to 1300!!!

How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??

How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??

In order to become a strong chess player, you NEED to learn about tactics, otherwise progression will be almost impossible. While it may seem like tactics are able to be learned at a moderate or higher level of skill, the truth is that anyone can master at least the basic tactics. Speaking of which, this part is all about the basics, and it is mainly for players with a level from 100-700. The tactics will start off as the EASIEST of them all, and will progress to still easy but not completely trivial by the end of this part. Ready? Here are the 1st 5 tactics! 1. Fork. This is perhaps the easiest tactic in chess, and it involves attacking 2 or more pieces with one of your pieces or pawns, and it is most commonly done with the knight. Here is an example of a fork in a hypothetical scenario: In this position, white is down a bishop for a rook. But they manage to gain material and be up a bishop by forking black's king and rook.     2. Pin. This tactic is slightly more difficult than the fork, as it isn't blatantly attacking 2 pieces at once, but it's still an easy tactic that can win material or the game. It involves attacking a piece that is in front of a more powerful piece, making it so moving the hanging piece will expose the stronger one, which heavily restricts that piece's movement for one, and usually outright wins that piece as well. Take this scenario:   Here, black is up a rook, and has a deadly threat on white's king, but white pins the black queen to the king, and after black takes white's rook with the pinned queen, white recaptures with check, taking black's queen, black's threat to the white king, and black's castling rights, securing a somewhat equal position.       3: Skewer. This is essentially the pin's distant cousin, but varies in the fact the more valuable piece is in front of the less valuable piece, instead of behind it. I just perfectly explained this tactic; it's attacking a piece that is in front of a weaker piece so when the strong one moves, we can take the weaker one. Let's look at another scenario: This position is slightly more complicated, requiring an additional move to setup the tactic (and the setup is also kind of a tactic in its own right; we'll cover it later). Black is down a bishop in this endgame position, but they can give a check, forcing white's king to an area with a rook behind the king, that allows black to skewer that rook and win material. You've learned abut the 3 most basic tactics in chess, but the last 2 will be... still easy, but they're not AS easy. Even then, they're still a great addition to any beginner's tactical repertoire. Starting with: 4: Discovered attack. This involves moving a piece that was covering up another of your piece's attacks on an opponent piece, thus allowing the movement to "reveal" the attack. This can have a lot of uses, such in this position: In this position, white is down a knight, and black has a threat on white's king. However, while black thinks their knight is defended, white can take it because the move comes with a discovered attack on black's queen so black can't take the bishop without losing more material. Black moves their queen to try and strengthen the threat on the king, but white moves their bishop back and solidly defends against the threat. 5: Removing the defender. This tactic is exactly what it sounds like: capturing a defender of a piece so that the previously defended piece can be taken next turn if it isn't moved. This can be done via a trade or a sacrifice. And for this case, let's look at a non-hypothetical scenario - this one is taken from one of my games! In this position, it's clear that I (black) am winning already. However I use the removing the defender tactic and sacrifice my knight, removing the defender of white's knight. White recaptures with the rook, and I capture the knight. This also occurs with a skewer of both white's rooks, so after white moves one rook, I capture the other and win material. Those are 5 simple tactics that can be used to gain an advantage. If you're a low level player, mastering these can help you gain skill and rating, setting you closer on the path to become a GM!

How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??

How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??

How fast did you guys solve it and much hints did you use??