ALL 54 CHESS TACTICS RANKED || Examples, Puzzles, Explanations

[@bgshorts7533]

The worst tactic is probably the 2 bishops battery because it has very likely never happened in a serious game

[@reachvidurmurali]

Me who promoted to a bishop in otb to troll:

[@ishkanark6725]

True

[@RuyVuusen]

It probably has been used in a couple obscure games where a Bishop underpromotion was optimal and some godforsaken conditions lead to needing such a battery. But even then, it sucks; Bishops are the worst pieces to have in batteries.

[@thetfsguy3033]

@@RuyVuusenI can’t think of any situation where that happens but I also can’t prove you wrong

[@yajtubeteevee1677]

@@reachvidurmuraliwats otb

[@gyerp]

I love how he forgot to re-record his lines sometimes.

[@Shrkx_]

I was looking for this comment😂

[@akhi-yahya]

> stuffs up lines > "no." > says line perfectly > leaves mistake in 🗿

[@majorbajor]

1:48 you'll appreciate the cross check when you learn queen endgames. And in that scenario it's very much something you have control over, making it beautiful

[@luisperor7]

in that scenario was mate in one

[@ismegam1621]

@@luisperor7 was going to say that

[@alfredfabianvontehen-dzek2744]

Glad not only I saw that xD

[@IceCenders]

@@luisperor7 is it really mate in one? black can play pawn to g6 or king to g8, they don't have to strand themselves on h8 and let the queen backrank them. but I could be missing something though...

[@ajfalo-fi3721]

Being in a worse position is not that uncommon even if you're good. Everyone loses a lot of games

[@mausengonmned-5258]

most o the time peo ple resing

[@spacemonkey5256]

Just because your position is worse doesn’t mean you should always resign

[@ReiAyasuka]

@@mausengonmned-5258I don’t resign, if a perpetual is in the position…

[@mausengonmned-5258]

@@ReiAyasuka no crap dude

[@alainerookkitsunev5605]

Except Hikaru has lost 0 classical games this year with like 15 wins and 35 draws XD but for regular people, this rule does generally applu

[@ThisReallyArmorsMyCore]

It feels wrong to put the Windmill so low when it featured so prominently in the Game of the Century as the consequence of Fischer's queen sacrifice.

[@Volclus]

It's such a beautiful tactic when it happens, but sadly it's just too obvious for most people to not see

[@Gamingth-p7j]

True

[@bradleywang289]

It’s kind of hard and much rarer compared to others

[@tatotick8513]

The reason it's called the game of the century is because this technique is so rare.

[@JustMoreOfAnAverageAustrillian]

The windmill method is so rare to happened.

[@exelmans8855]

1:28 After black moves I prefer go to the checkmate Qf8.

[@Carboy45]

That will only work if black plays Kh8 instead of Kg8

[@davidjames149]

@@Carboy45 which they did..

[@bugoobiga]

@@davidjames149

[@upchessbyabzolute]

7:42 Attraction leads to another tactic, such as a fork, and deflection leads directly to a capture with no other tactic.

[@swop6750]

0:38 i think underpromotion is epic and actually can be usefull in a lot of situations like to fork the queen and the king in an endgame position or avoid stalemate

[@Kommaer]

2:20 centralizing Your King is a essential tactic itself. You must operate with a King, too!

[@BixenteFabregas]

#52 is absolutely vital in queen endings (queen and pawn versus pawn). If you are the side with the pawn, place your king in the same file, rank or diagonal of the other king and voilà, you'll avoid perpetual checks because the queen swap will led you to an elementary won game. (formulated first by Botvinnik after analysing Botvinnik-Ravinsky Moscow 1944). So #52 for middlegame, but at top 10 in endgame !

[@CompleteIdeal]

Fun and entertaining concept! Perpetual check, or as I think of it the "dancing queen", has gotta be higher though. Yasser Seirawan once said the perpetual check is what elevates the Queen from being worth 8 points of material (rook + bishop) to being worth 9 points. Source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmOmfGh8gKhokNUsi=SqEGtIbJFYND4QWD&t=2568

[@Volclus]

I think it's great when it happens, but it really is quite rare. In total I've played somewhere around 4,000 games of chess, only in like 30 has a perpetual check been tried, and about 10 it actually panned out successfully

[@MsLynguyen]

@@VolclusYou must not be very high rated then, I’ve seen it happen quite often in high level games.

[@hideyourgf8502]

@@MsLynguyenyep, im 2150 fide and its actually pretty common feature, mainly in queen endgames + some openings (marshall, semislav

[@danielpostiff1640]

@@Volclus i didn't watch the whole thing, but the top 10 only, and my question is where is interposition? It is a quite common and VERY useful + fun and complicated

[@aarongrahamcracker7196]

Wait! I have to argue with your explanation of a Zugzwang. I believe that a position is only considered zugzwang when the position only losing because one player has to move, hence "compulsion to move". In your example, black is being checkmated whether they move or not. However, in zugzwang black would be drawn or winning if they could "pass" their turn. This occurs often in king+pawn endgames

[@Volclus]

True! Opposition in a king and pawn endgame would've been a bit better of an example

[@jeremyready8030]

Thank you, this is what a lot of players miss.

[@ceskydream2849]

@@Volclus true because black is getting chekmated anyway u just gotta bring ur king there

[@BobChess]

Others: the best tactic is fork or pin or skewer etc. Hikaru: the best tactic is take take take.

[@Rowl840]

No hikaru likes take take check check take take check check check mate

[@KN9595]

Scholar’s mate belongs at the bottom by a mile.

[@williamd2999]

True

[@drfate2885]

That's not a tactic that's a opening

[@KN9595]

@@drfate2885 That too!

[@d1kgaws12]

It only works in beginner games. There will be a point where everyone and their moms will know how to defend against it.

[@thetfsguy3033]

@@d1kgaws12even if you have no idea you can avoid it by just developing the knigt

[@JimCoady]

There is only 5 basic families of tactics. 1. The Double Attack: Also known as a fork, is the most common tactic because every piece can do a double attack. 2. The Discovered Attack 3. The Pin 4. The Skewer 5. Removing the Guard, which includes, capturing, blocking or overloading the guard. Tactics consists of one of these elements or a combination of them. Tactics are not to be confused with Mating Motifs, that end the game immediately with a checkmate pattern.

[@JustMoreOfAnAverageAustrillian]

Why is scholar's mate higher than windmill?

[@appletizer8415]

Believe it or not, it's actually much more common for a scholar's Mate to happen than you finding a windmill tactic

[@eks_0]

Now heres my most used tatic: THE BLUNDER

[@aleksrysiak]

I like to call it a sacrifice

[@Chomta]

​@@aleksrysiak i call it sacrifice and/or gambit

[@mayonnaiseonahotdog7674]

I’m half awake right now and you saying “no” and repeating the line is really messing with me I thought I was seeing into the future for a second

[@frododododo]

Timestamp timestamp

[@TheChessWins]

And obviously the castle-fork is so good that is belongs in S+ tier

[@boghanisthinking]

I like how you left in the restarts. It feels more like I'm listening to a person, not an "influencer".

[@hussain1720]

"As you go higher, some of these tactics aren't very common" Yes they are. They are part of strategies, sacrifices, equalizers and long term attacks. For a tactic to land you in a better position, your opponent has to make an inaccuracy or mistake. It's all about taking advantage of that mistake.

[@decract]

Ah yes. Checkmate, best chess tactic ever.

[@RuyVuusen]

At 18:55, isn't that more of an in-between move than a desperado? A more textbook example of a desperado would be a trapped or otherwise lost piece capturing something of less value as a desperate attempt to squeeze out the rest of their usefulness. That is an in-between move (a move you play before the obvious mandatory move, so that the opponent has to respond and you gain advantage) and not a desperado since you capture a piece of equal value; if the Knight captured a pawn (and were still hanging), it would be a desperado, since you are exhanging the hopelessly lost Knight for something less valuable to still gain something from it. It's called a desperado precisely because you desperatelly still gain something less valuable with a piece that's already a lost cause. That's why gaining something of equal value with a lost piece is not a desperado, but depending on the position something like a trade or an in-between move.

[@samdriver8792]

Yeah, my understanding of a desperado would be a queen trapped by pawns and a rook taking the rook to at least regain some material. Same with this person's definition of Zugwang doesn't seem right to me. Oxford Dictionary defines it as "a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage". And in their example, one side was already going to get mated, and not being able to "skip" their move would not prevent them from losing.

[@greensalad_1205]

(SPOILER ALERT) F TIER (54th - 51st) 0:08 54th Alekhine's Gun 0:39 53rd Underpromotion 1:16 52nd Cross-Check 1:55 51st King Fork C TIER (50th - 41st) 2:28 50th Trapped Piece 3:01 49th Stalemate 3:48 48th Hit-and-Run 4:33 47th Windmill 5:26 46th Perpetual Check 6:11 45th Interference 6:37 44th Scholar's Mate 7:15 43rd Clearance 7:45 42nd Deflection 8:24 41st Greek Gift B TIER (40th - 31st) 9:20 40th Queen Pin 10:00 39th Rook Fork 10:30 38th Pawn Structure Destruction 11:30 37th Bishop Fork 12:00 36th X-Ray 12:51 35th Overloading the Defender 13:44 34th Situational Pin 14:30 33rd Smothering 15:05 32nd Queen Fork 15:37 31st Decoy A TIER (30th - 21st) 16:56 30th Rooks on the 7th 17:44 29th Passed Pawns 18:33 28th Desperado 19:31 27th Tempo Tactics 20:37 26th Absolute Pin 20:53 25th Rook Pin 21:09 24th Rook-Rook Battery 21:32 23rd f2/f7 Weakness 22:04 22nd Double Check 23:05 21st Bishop-Queen Battery S TIER (20th - 11th) 23:41 20th Skewer 24:03 19th Zwischenzug 24:58 18th King Endgame Tactics 25:31 17th Pawn Breakthrough 26:04 16th Mating Net 26:36 15th Mate-in-3+ 27:26 14th Pawn Fork 27:53 13th Backrank 28:39 12th Discovered Attack 29:13 11th Knight Fork S+ TIER (10th - 1st) 29:45 10th Hanging Piece 30:27 9th Remove the Defender 31:08 8th Battery 31:45 7th Bishop Pin 32:29 6th Zugzwang 33:31 5th Counter-Threat 34:16 4th Mate-in-2 34:45 3rd Pin 35:19 2nd Fork 35:55 1st Mate-in-1

[@FightCommentary]

I've done Alekhine's Gun once, but I still lost the game because I blundered. My opponent was a 9 year old. This was my first chess tournament ever. I will never forget that game.

[@adrianovasov8848]

bro amazing content i don't know where else one will find all the tactics so well explained and above all shared for free well done!!

[@excancerpoik]

the greek gift is one of my personal favourites because its rare but when you manage to do it its basically a free win

[@999lazza]

i think i won more than 10 games with greek gift sac last month. basically it depends on your opening and how you position your pieces.

[@forthemworthy]

interesting example of the desperado: There is a line in the mengarini variation (e4, c5, a3, Nc6, b4, cxb4, axb4, Nxb4, d4, d5, c3, Nc6, exd5, Qxd5, Na3, Nf6, Nb5, Qd1) where you can play d5 and even though it seems like a free pawn if Nxd5 occurs then you can do a desperado with Qxd5 since after Qxd5, you have Nc7+ winning back the queen and being up a piece.

[@chesscomsupport8689]

The discovered attack definitely isn't the most common, but imo it's the most fun of the basic tactics (pin, fork, etc.).

[@myffrost4340]

If windmill tactic happens in between a game it will be hilarious ngl 😢😂😂😂

[@somniad]

hey! I actually discovered windmilling on my own, in an arrangement pretty much identical to this, very neat, didn't know it had a name

[@sssp1998]

Straight to the point and very crisp..you deserve more subscribers...thanks..

[@ThunderboxMusic]

I just want to say that I have used Alekhine’s gun to great success before (in one game… against a bot…)

[@rosiefay7283]

7:14 wRg7 moved off the g-file, so this is not clearance but line-opening (wR opened the g-file for wQ). Clearance would be where the front piece advances so that the rear piece can then advance to a square it couldn't reach before.

[@jeanieevans7529]

Philidor rook and pawn endgame, Attacking a pinned peice with a pawn, Queen vs king and pawn endgame, Right angle triangle (hikaru fork), Family fork (you showed an example of this), Cutting the king off in endgame, Pawns storm, Early queen attack -weak but opponent can allow it need to know how to deal with it by gaining tempo, Infiltration: queen, rook, pawn; Centralize king - thanks martin Initiative (you covered this with tempo), Pawn gambit, "Never interrupt your enemy while hes making a mistake" -napolean, The principal of least active peice when there is no tactics, Understanding the main ideas and themes of an opening, A whole video on chess principals. Good shit

[@michaelr1661]

The way you have described desperado is as if it was an inbetween move (which the desperado in the example was). Desperado really is just a piece having no way of not beeing captured, so it just captures whatever it can to get at least a bit of value

[@rosiefay7283]

Also known as a rambling piece. Very often a rambling rook.

[@onniruusunen9444]

About the greek Gift It sometimes doesn't work if the king comes forward. Like if it comes to h6 and you don't have bishop on the c-h line it might not work. Always remember after the greek gift, if the king comes to g6 depending on the position, Qg4,h4 or qd3 is the right continuation (from whites side)

[@cipherxen2]

Hikaru: Where is my staircase?

[@thelegendary_knight]

1:26 bro was liike "mate in 1 and win" nahh "take the rook" YEAHH

[@matheus_rml]

1:37 “You can take the rook” Bro didn’t want to deliever mate in 1🗿🍷

[@tilar5580]

Thanks that’s very useful and I’ve learnt lots of new tactic here

[@unnamed7225]

I really liked your explanations for each tactic and presentation, very easy to understand. Keep going!

[@Nightlight7]

1:32 you have mate in 1

[@Nightlight7]

Wait nvm he can block

[@spirou2012]

32:52 I think that Zugzwang is when every move your opponent has s losing, however if he had the right to skip a turn he would be fine. In the Queen and King chekmate, even if your opponent could skip a move, he would be losing. However I guess the Rook and King chekmate depends on this fundamental idea.

[@tommyvercetti1558]

did he just use the decoy when he first explained the decoy as decoy?💀

[@menacingskull740]

We should have a defensive tactics tier list (not opening) or does chess favor attacking more

[@Nagitudo]

The ammount of checkmates missed here angers me even though it's just to show the tactics

[@jparuo]

1:25 1. Bc2+ Kh8 2. Qf8# I was personally hurt when he took the rook

[@polandsilver3419]

Windmill is in my opinion one of strongest tactics and probably the best if you don't count mate in 1. It is sometimes even better than double check, discovered check and royal fork and an arguement that good players would see it applies on every tactic there is :)

[@izaactheberean6860]

You should rank openings (but only like 20 or a few of the most common ones).

[@Nemo-jq2rz]

perpetual check is actually surprisingly common, at least for me when I do it or others do it, but only when it's in a sequence of sacrificing another piece to end up perpetual checking

[@virendabas5811]

Its a treasure video. Many many thanks. I can imagine how much time you would have taken for thi video. Amazing

[@izaactheberean6860]

What about gambits? Maybe you could've included queen promotion, castling, & en passant too.

[@izaactheberean6860]

Did he mention double attacks?

[@Shiroi_Okami_44]

1:26 Blocking with the pawn: Nah Kg8: Nope Kh8 to blunder mate in one: Best move

[@limwengfatt5004]

5:27 if it was blacks turn, queen to a1 check is a great move, after queen blocks black queens takes with checkmate.

[@lmb0072]

1:28 "We take the Rook" Stockfish: But there was a mate in 1...

[@DaanBruins]

#28 is a zwischenzug, not a desperado.

[@the.kleyko]

4:40 The windmill examples misses a checkmate by moving the rook back

[@yahelk9931]

L on his part

[@davidwiederman8841]

Only after you take the pawn and the bishop. So you still need the windmill tactic for mate you just don’t need to take the knight.

[@shikaru1730]

#49 is actually called the mad rook tactic, where you check forever

[@Stoneface-SD42]

54 tactics in less than 40 minutes ‼️ AAAAAAAAAWESOME

[@excancerpoik]

we need a every single opening tier list and i know, we have the gambit tier list but just imagine a really long video with every opening and you could reuse the clips for the gambits and just change the number

[@cubsfanman-nx6pg]

Hikaru and levy literally already have that exact video btw

[@alsatusmd1A13]

Stalemate and perpetual check are obviously not bad enough that they intrinsically belong in C tier, FIDE just demands them to be scored unfairly.

[@Kyle-b6z]

(#39 Rook Fork) Is very rare when you actually forgot to slide your rook on 7th/2nd rank

[@georgyushkevich8448]

1:27 - if black moves the king to h8, you don't need the rock)) There is mate in 1: Qc8

[@ridgeway2933]

Like 80% of these are just double attacks that he gives different names and 15% aren't even tactics. What's this guy's rating?

[@Vagabond_Etranger]

At 1100, I still fall for pawn fork & back rank mate. It's because I don't want to lose the tempo, & hoping the opponent doesn't notice it. I often get tunnel vision if my piece is attack, because after I moved it, I noticed a better move that would have get me a free piece. Lost many games because of this. #3 is not really a pin for me, free Queen development. Plus I favor bishop over knight, so always looking to trade my knights for their bishops.

[@Alb_Balk]

Back rank mate can be avoided very easily tbh, it's not that hard to move a pawn up or just always have a rook in the back rank. But for the pawn Fork, That;s hella painful and it happens to the best of us.

[@andremarques1088]

Xd I'm your opponent then, I do it all the time to my opponents and I almost never do get done to me.. Pattern recognition people, pattern recognition

[@2003LN6]

at 1300 I keep getting pawn forked in bughouse

[@cubsfanman-nx6pg]

Alright holdup Why is zwichsinshwuck or however you spell it ranked like 20 when "counter threat" is ranked 5 and its the exact same thing

[@victorkao1472]

Pin/fork are definitely the best tactics and the most common ones.

[@ukvibesandmore3087]

The desperado shown in the vid 18:37 was rather zwichenzug an in between move.

[@whitetiger4568]

18:33 on example 28 this tactic isn’t a desperado, it’s a zwischenzug

[@neyliolol]

the cross-check then ignore mate in one tactic is really my favorite chess tactic

[@chessking4764]

Are you going to do all chess strategies ranked !!

[@shuaibahammed7293]

In desparado example you mentioned it's fine too capture on f6 even if it is a pawn but that is wrong as the white knight was attacked by the black knight

[@mohammedjiuma4746]

Intervention is one of the coolest tactic and i didn't see it mentioned here( put a piece between two pieces defending each other, which can make them both unprotected, it is not the same as a fork)

[@henryalexander7325]

1:26 Boss, don’t take the rook, Qc8 or Qf8 is mate 😂

[@izaactheberean6860]

What's the name for the tactic where you check their king to force a block by another piece, then take that piece?

[@risingmojofilter]

Is the answer decoy?

[@rosiefay7283]

2:00 Besides which, here, wK doesn't attack bBe6. 2:38 I disagree. It's fairly common for a bishop to get trapped in the opening. The Noah's Ark trap is an example. 3:25 Eric Rosen has entered the chat 6:32 Don't understand why you rate interference so low. Blocking an enemy line of attack/guard is basic tactics. 7:42 Why such a low rank for deflection, so beloved of problemists? 15:37 At least decoy manages to be somewhere near the middle. 9:37 Which will often happen, if your queen pins something against their king.

[@grnarsch5287]

Fun Video. But i often dont agree on the Ranking some things may happen rarely in games but just the thead of some c tier tactics is strong and happens often in high levls

[@mrnoblemonkey8401]

This guy needs 100k subs

[@alexandermihaylov3555]

Took me 10 minutes to realize this wasn’t an S-F tier list 😭

[@mtaur4113]

Scholar's Mate is the lowest tier. It's not like the others low on the list where it could come up but only rarely. This one can only happen if you voluntarily play a bad opening and hope that they don't know it, and then you basically give up the advantage for white if they do. It's just for fun, and it should literally never work against a NM or better, and rarely if ever above 1200. You can still win if you play 100 Elo better, but you could do that easier with a good opening.

[@timstolte7117]

It would be more like attaking weaknesses or making checkmatethreats than its one tactic

[@Eggyfirefly]

drinking game: take a shot every time he says "however"

[@joshuamusic8812]

Is this dude playing at 1200? "This tactic is not that common" on very common tactics like removal of defender and interference

[@tommyvercetti1558]

broski forgot en passant 😔

[@shehabshehabeldakamy3752]

at #52 "Cross Check" : white could have secured a mate by Bc2+ Kh8 Qc8# that's a well developed and strategized mate in my opinion as well, I encounter this position/similar positions very often (on a daily basis against my students)

[@MrLand_RD]

After Bc2+ isnt there both g6 and Kg8?

[@ovejita15]

15:48 the "no" killed me xD

[@MetaaR]

5:04 was mate in 2: Rg5+ Rf6 Bxf6#

[@andreisolis3763]

one time i accidentally trapped my opponents king or in other terms accidentally checkmate my opponent by thinking its a check

[@VJMusic01]

Isnt the tactic at 7:41 a mixture of Alekhines gun and clearance

[@danielyuan9862]

I'm assuming you're ranking these by usefulness and practicality, and that's what I'll use to criticize your rankings: 1:54 I don't know why you placed King Fork so low, you said it can only happen in the endgame, but in any endgame position with at least 2 pieces that ideally don't involve a queen or 2 rooks, you have to watch out for king forks. It's still not that great, it feels like a A-tier tactic, but it shouldn't be ranked this low. 2:26 I don't know what you're saying about higher levels. Sure it doesn't happen every game, but in intermediate and higher levels, trapped pieces happen _more_ because players are better at coordinating their pieces and constricting the opponent's pieces. I've seen it happen multiple times in ChessVibes's speedrun, and at that level it usually costs them the game. This should be in S-tier. 5:12 I'm okay with your ranking here, but the problem is not that it's obvious to see, it's that it's quite rare. The "obvious to see" problem doesn't matter because it can always be hidden behind other tactics. 6:35 How is this not in C-tier? This is a trap, not a tactic. Maybe you can argue that in some opening lines like one I know in the Scotch Game, you take advantage of scholar's mate as a way to win a piece back. But most of the time it's used as a trap and it isn't a sound tactic. 7:44 I feel like decoy/deflection is simply underrated in general. It is the start of having the mindset of, "this doesn't quite work" -> "is there anything I can do to make it work?", which is a powerful mindset in chess, because every once in a while, you _can_ make it work, and that's the game. 15:22 I'm sorry, did you say queen forks happen especially rarely in openings? There are lots of opening traps that involve queen forks, and those are usually the ones I don't see (the fact that you literally have an example at 30:00 as well lmao). Still agree with the ranking tho. 15:36 That's not a decoy. First, it's more of a deflection. Second, I wouldn't even say that it's a deflection. It's really two threats that the king can't both stop. A decoy is tactically placing an enemy piece in an exact square/line that allows for another tactic. It can happen a decent amount in middlegames, but I say deflection is more common in general. Personally, I would rank this lower than deflection, but not by much. 17:42 Passed pawns are literally one of the most powerful endgame concepts. And if you're up just a minor piece or an exchange, you can only really win by making a passed pawn and getting a promotion. I have a feeling you're actually talking about something different in the video, but from the way I see it, it should be in S+-tier for sure. 18:33 It feels very weird to call this a desperado. That's more of an intermezzo tactic (another word for zwichenzug), since the move creates an additional higher threat. 19:54 This is a nice tactic to have in your toolbelt, since it works best with other tactics. I just got to add that the tactic that it works with is an example of a decoy, or attraction. 22:55 Even if the rook line-up is obvious to see, imagine if the rook can be taken by one of the pieces, like hypothetically the black knight was on f2. Well, first of all, you could just take the rook lol, but you might think, I'll just wait until they move the bishop first before taking the rook, but NO, not if you play a double-check. In this hypothetical scenario, _both_ pieces can be under attack and it doesn't matter. The king still has to move. 25:30 This one feels overrated. I simply think it's a bit rare for it to be listed this high up. Usually, you're able to make passed pawns without sacrificing pawns but maybe it me subconsciously thinking passed pawns = good. The rest is just questionable in the sense that is it really a tactic, or is it just a broader version of the previous tactics. The mate-in-1 example you used isn't strictly necessary to play on that turn. But the fact is that if you're playing checkmate, you're playing a mate-in-1. Still a great video. However, I do see a lack of knowledge of chess concepts. For example, just because a tactic can be avoided easily doesn't mean it's not useful, you can use it to know exactly why your opponent can't stop some of your plans or ideas. And you also mention that some tactics are easy to spot. That almost never matters, because it can always be made harder to see when it's a few moves away.

[@KororaPenguin]

Your "Mate in 2" scenario was also another example of removing the defender.

[@tanayshahane5239]

and were putting this into s tier!

[@JDSJPART2]

16:44 this is not an example of decoy That is an example of overloading the king Decoy is attracting the piece to the undesired square I am tactical player btw so i know drcoy tactics

[@mistermax2289]

A decoy pawn is a pawn that forces the king to stop it, allowing your king to capture enemy pawns and promote while the king is away. Overloading the king would be to capture something the king defends, allowing you to capture whatever else the king was defending.

[@JDSJPART2]

Its still a overloading

[@jimallysonnevado3973]

some of the not so good tactics can be very good if you create a threat of a tactic and they need to prevent the tactic by making a undesirable move and you end up with better position

[@charlespg3d190]

Bro forgot: Pawn break Rook lift Gambit Intermediate move Manual Castle Reroute a/h pawn push fianchetto Transposition Sacrifice pieces in hopes of stalemate

[@thetfsguy3033]

Fyi intermediate another move is just making a the obvious/key move. For example before capturing a trade, you might give a check and then recapturing or threatening mate and then recapturing

[@thetfsguy3033]

Pawn break is just a pawn trade that opens up the position or helps one army with development. It usually benefits the side that plays the break

[@thetfsguy3033]

A transposition can also be a tactic. By definition a tactic is just a move aimed to achieve a certain ending, and transposing aims to end into another opening

[@charlespg3d190]

@@thetfsguy3033 thanks, i’ll add that and also another one

[@crowreligion]

8:16 I thought for 30 seconds that it was checkmate before i realized white can take that bishop

[@F2ScrambledX]

I believe number 28 was not a desparado, that was a swischenzug ( an inbetween move). A desparado is when a piece for example a knight is trapped and you take a pawn instead of losing the knight for nothing.

[@rosiefay7283]

Indeed, it was a zwischenschach, or in-between check. So the opponent was obliged to deal with it.

[@MoisesCr1tikal]

22:14 this sacrifice on the caro kann is my favourite! do you know what game is this from? i was looking all over but couldn't find it . Anyways, great video, watched it all without skipping a single second

[@robinros2595]

It's Reti - Tartakower, Vienna 1910

[@MoisesCr1tikal]

@@robinros2595 tysm Man you're the best, gonna remember that match. It's my favorite match of all time for now

[@Dadzie498]

12:49 you forgot to edit 😬

[@Volclus]

[@flowerbasket2229]

Wow, this video is brilliant. It helped me remember how to- where are my keys? son.? son is that you? i havent seen you in years... what? yesterday? but- oh.. R.I.P.