12 chess tactics and how to use those to gain advantage – Part 3
3. Double Check
From your basic knowledge on chess, you know that when you give check, your opponent has to leave aside all other plans he may have and immediately take action to evade or neutralize the threat to his King.
There are three ways he can do it:
moving the King to any of the adjacent squares [...]
12 chess tactics and how to use those to gain advantage – Part 2
2. Discovered Check
In the first part of this series, you saw the tactical use of checks. We now take up a type of special check known as discovered check which is a much more potent weapon than simple checks.
In simple checks, you just attack the opponent’s King with a piece or pawn. In discovered check, [...]
12 chess tactics and how to use those to gain advantage – Part 1
All of us appreciate beautiful chess combinations that occur at all levels – from games between amateurs to those between top grandmasters. A combination is nothing but two or more tactical moves in a sequence that create an advantage for the player who has thought it up. If you examine any such combination, you will [...]
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