I would add "Remove the guard" to your list.
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I would consider distraction to be the one that comes up most often and is most useful
flirting?
Jan 9, 2010
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ZekesGhost wrote:
I would add "Remove the guard" to your list.
This is a general tactic and could be achieved with other things already mentioned, such as a decoy.
to OP: I don't think any are 'more important', it depends on the position.
X-Ray: enlighten me? 
Never heard of that before.
Attraction: isn't a tactic. Baiting someone into making a bad move is not a tactic. Unless that's not what you meant? Forcing them into making a bad move is a tactic; but that's 'forcing play', not 'attraction'.
You missed:
Double Check
Under Promotion
Perhaps you meant to ask what is more important for a beginner to learn first; for an advanced player it's important to be able to recognise all of them, instantly.
If this is the question then the most important to know first are the ones which occur most frequently, as follows:
En Prise
Pin
Fork
... and the others in any order.
Hope this helps
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The "X-ray attack" is much like a pin only the more valuable piece is the closer one.
so what's the difference between an x-ray and a skewer? I haven't heard the term either.
Jan 9, 2010
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#8
An example of an x-ray attack. White can check the king on f8 with the rook because f8 is indirectly protected by the queen on b8. Note: I'm not good at creating diagrams. The black queen should be on d8, protected by the rook.
I see. Didn't realise there was a name for that. thanks 
Jan 9, 2010
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ZekesGhost wrote:
I would add "Remove the guard" to your list.
decoy and removing the defender are the same thing.
Jan 10, 2010
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#11
Tactics are usually a combination of such themes. You can't "know" "pins, skewers" etc. You just get slowly better and better at them by studying.
is double attack considered a tactic.
any poison pawn variation is a example of a attraction.
chessmaster102 wrote:
is double attack considered a tactic.
Yeah.
To the above, decoy and removing the defender are not the same thing.
nvm about attraction .
Scottrf wrote:
chessmaster102 wrote:
is double attack considered a tactic.
Yeah.
To the above, decoy and removing the defender are not the same thing.
how are they not ?
what are the most important tactics in your point of view list them for instance like 1.pin 2.decoy 3.discovered attack .... and so on here are all the tactics I know
pin
fork
x-ray
en prise
decoy
attraction
skewer
discovered attack
zugzwang
zwischenzug those are just the one's I know but if you can list them from your favorite to least favorite.