Your favourite tactic in chess.

Lets see whats the most favourite tactic of various chess players.

Are we talking about openings ?if yes ,kings indian defense for black and italian game for white

no what we are talking about are things like fork or for example greek gift sacrifice so you can find those tactics in puzzles or your games

Deflection

Windmill.

Decoying / Diverting.

From one of my over-the-board rated tournament games at 40/2 time control.

Black has the f7 square protected three times.

A long time ago, there was great discussion about the Schmidlap maneuver, but the thread seems to have disappeared. It is forever lost to history.

g8=Q#

Notice that decoying and diverting are almost always found together.

1. Bxe5 diverts the Black Queen away from guarding the f7 square... and also decoys it to a square on which it will be forked. 2. Qxd8+ diverts the Black King away from guarding the f7 square, and also decoys it to a square on which it will get forked. The two themes are commonly found together.

If you like tactical chess games, try this... my contribution to "Extreme Chess".

From the rated Malaysia vs Canada match. I was Black.

Kids, don't try this at home!

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I love the pin and fork attacks

Piece trading.

For some reason, every time I successfully perform a discovered attack, I say "Welcome to the Discovery Channel."

I don't know when this started, or why I still do it. It's not even funny. 💀

interposing for sure

The double check tactic is generally very powerful.

cross pins are also nasty... black to move: 1-0 🥷