What is your favourite tactic of chess? skewer, pin, fork, discover check or decoy sacrifice?

What is your favourite tactic of chess? skewer, pin, fork, discover check or decoy sacrifice?

Zuktswang

Queens brother.

Overloads are fun. In this one, the Black Queen has too many jobs to do.

nice puzzle

Sacking anything --- it just seems right.

My favourite style is to play e4 and then to make semi-random moves till the end of a game

Ohhhhh, this is sweet! Thank you!

Fork. Always and forever.

These ALL rock my world so identifying one TOP tactic would be difficult! One I've recently discovered is ATTRACTION. I drew a King from one side of the board to the other (to aid in stopping my pawn push one rank from promoting), so it left its only pawn undefended. I did not consider that we could actually MANIPULATE the OP in this way until that game!

My favorite though must be discovered check! Great question, thank you!

By the way, I first learned of attraction from Levy (GothamChess) and his clip here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/eCEXMSgoqPE?si=SwcT47fh_ISXMjxS

Chess never gets boring!

The Roz is very informative, and a lot of fun to watch.

In my actual game, it came up only as a threat... it was actually Black's move, not White's, in that position.