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8 Cards in this Set
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Four levels of tactics
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1. Hanging pieces
2. Counting-- attackers and defenders on pieces, squares, points after exchanges 3. Direct tactics, such as fork, pin skewer... 4. Combinations |
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What's a hanging Piece?
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A piece or pawn with no defender.
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Types of counting
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1. Attackers and defenders on pieces (enprise).
2. Center squares and other vital squares. 3. Points after possible exchanges. |
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What is an "enprise" piece?
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One that will lose points if captured. Such as a losing a knight but capturing a pawn.
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15 general tactics
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1. fork (dbl attack), 2. pin, 3. skewer, 4.x-ray, 5.discovery attack, 6. trapping, 7. double check, 8.overloaded pieces, 9. decoy, 10. deflection, 11. interference, 12.removing guard, 13. attacking f7f2, 14. push passed pawns, 15. windmill
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Ways to remove a guard
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By capturing a piece, threatening it, distracting it, or undermining it.
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What is happening to the rook on d4? Can it legally move?
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Absolute pin. It cannot move until the king is not in the diagonal with the white queen.
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Ways to use an absolute pin.
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1. Hold a defender and allow checkmate.
2. Hold a piece then pile up on it with pawns or other pieces. 3. Attack other pieces that would be defended by the pinned piece. |
