All tactics explained!

In this forums, we'll be talking about important and devastating attack.

1. Desparado: This is a tactic where you know that a piece is doomed to be capture, you might as well grab something before it gets taken of the board to maximum the damage (but obviously it's not good to let your pieces being trap)

2. Decoy: This is when you sacrificed or do something to lure a pieces take it or go to a specific square  where it is doomed to be capture. Usually when you sacrificed a piece, the computer will rate it as a brilliant move.

3. Under Promotion: This is a tactic where you promoted a pawn to a knight, bishop or rook, not a queen. This tactic can be use to avoid stalemate or achieve a specific tactical objectives not possible with a queen.

4. Overloading: This happen when a piece is protecting many pieces and when one is taken, the other one is now unprotected since the piece guarding it is no longer there, and when this happen, you'll most likely win materials.

5. Rooks on 7th rank: This can be a devastating attack as you can restrict the enemy king from ever escape the 8th rank and attack pawn or pieces there. If you have 2 rooks there, you can threaten to ladder checkmate.

6. Discovered Attack: A discovered attack is when a piece move out of the way and attack a piece, reveal an attack on the other pieces. This can be super powerful cause your opponents will lose materials, this is kinda like the fork but with 2 pieces.

7. Fork: A fork happen when a piece attack 2 pieces at once, allowing you to capture one of them.

8. Clearance: Clearance is a sacrifice where a piece move away from a certain square for the other piece to come in.

9. Pawn Breakthrough: This is a genius tactic in endgame where you sacrifice multiple pieces or pawn to create an unstoppable passed pawn.

10. Pin: A pin happen when a piece is attack, and moving it would expose a more valuable piece. This can be a super helpful tool as it help you win materials or restrict a piece from defense or attack.

11. Skewer: A skewer is a reverse pin, the more valuable piece is in front and must move and expose a less valuable piece behind doom to capture.

12. Windmill: This is a devastating attack and it's the combination of a rook and bishop with the power of the discovered check. You move the rook and check the king, the king can't capture because the bishop is protecting it, and the king is force to go to a specific square where the rook move would discover a check from the bishop, when the rook move, it takes the pieces on it way. And you just need to repeat this process over.                                                   Since this is a complicated attack, learn more about it there:                                                                 https://chess.com/terms/windmill-chess

13. Mating Net: This is when you restrict the king from moving to any square around it, make it easier to mate.

14: Perpetual Check: This is when you check non-stop. This is a tactic to avoid losing when down on materials.

15. Zwischenzug or In-Between Move: This is when you make a move before doing a move. This can be hard to understand, so learn about it there: https://www.chess.com/terms/zwischenzug-chess

16. Deflection: This is a tactic where you deflect one pieces from a square so it stop protecting a certain square. This can go well with discovered check.

17. Interference: This is when you move a piece into the line of protect connect 2 enemy pieces together, leading to losing materials or even checkmate.

18. X-ray: This is a tactic I can't explain so learn about it there: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/friends-what-exactly-is-x-ray-attack-in-chess-and-how-is-it-different-frm-skewer

19. Undermining: This is a tactic where you capture the defender leaving one opponent's piece unprotected.

20. Passed Pawn: Even though this is the concept refers to a pawn that can be promoted and has no pieces blocking its path. This can be a very powerful strategy in the midgame and endgame because your opponent will have to sacrifice many pieces to prevent this pawn from promoting.

21. Zugzwang: This is a really good tactic. Zugzwang is when you put your opponent in a position where any move will make worsen their position. This is a tactic that refers to   advance-level player so learn more about it there: https://www.chess.com/terms/zugzwang-chess

22. Stalemate: Again, this is a concept that refers to a player that doesn't have any legal move but the king is not it check, the game will end in a draw. You can sacrifice multiple pieces when you realize your king doesn't have any move to avoid losing. Example of this tactic is the game in 1991 between Viswanathan Anand and Alexey Dreev, the PGN is there:

[Event "Candidates Match"]
[Site "Madras IND"]
[Date "1991.01.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Viswanathan Anand"]
[Black "Alexey Dreev"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[EventDate "?"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "106"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 gxf6 7. Nf3 b6 8.
Bd3 Bb7 9. Qe2 c6 10. O-O Nd7 11. Rfe1 Qc7 12. a4 a5 13. c3 Nf8 14. Qd2 Ng6 15.
b4 f5 16. Ng3 h5 17. bxa5 Rxa5 18. c4 Kf8 19. Bf1 Bf6 20. Ra3 Kg7 21. Rb1 h4 22.
Ne2 h3 23. g3 c5 24. d5 exd5 25. cxd5 c4 26. Nc3 Qc5 27. Ra2 Ne7 28. Rab2 Nxd5
29. Rb5 Nxc3 30. Rxc5 Nxb1 31. Qd7 Rxc5 32. Nd4 Kg6 33. Qxb7 Bxd4 34. Qxb6+ f6
35. Qxb1 c3 36. Bd3 c2 37. Bxc2 Rhc8 38. Bxf5+ Rxf5 39. g4 Rc1+ 40. Qxc1 Rxf2
41. Kh1 Be5 42. Qg1 Rg2 43. a5 Rxg1+ 44. Kxg1 Kg7 45. a6 Bb8 46. Kh1 Kg8 47. Kg1
Kf8 48. Kh1 Ke8 49. g5 f5 50. g6 f4 51. g7 Kf7 52. g8=Q+ Kxg8 {It seems like
Anand's position is hopeless. He is down in material with no real prospects of
winning this game.} 53. a7 $1 {White finds a way of forcing a draw. Now the black
bishop must capture the pawn, or it will promote to a queen.} 53... Bxa7 {There
are no legal moves for White. The game is drawn.} 1/2-1/2

23. Double Check: This is the upgraded discovered check where the king get checked by 2 pieces. This is a super dangerous tactic and almost all the time, that king got checkmated a few move after that.

24. Battery: This is a tactic where you put 2 connected long range pieces on a file, rank or diagonals to put pressure on a specific object.

25. Counter Threat: This is when you counter a threat with a bigger threat.

26. Sacrifice: A sacrifice is when you sac a piece to achieve a larger goal. This is often a brilliant move.

27. Simplification: This is a tactic used when you're up in materials that is you tried to trade piece to simplify the board.

Thanks for reading!