What is strategy? what is chess tactics?

lets begin! Strategy is your overall plan in any given position towards a specific goal. while it's often an aggressive plan, it can also be defensive, depending upon your analysis and understanding of the needs of the position.

Tactics are short-term manuevers which always involve either threats, captures or combinations. since the majority of good tactics are created with successful combinations, this term also requires a clear definition. a combination is a tactical manuever in which you sacrifice material to obtain an advantage or at least to improve your position. so, strategy them, is your general plan. while tactics are your specific means of carrying it out.

i will explain some of chess tactics. for my introduction, there are chess tactics as we know. the Fork, The Pin, discoveries and skewers, the mating attack, undermining the defense, and assorted tactics.

1. The Fork

The most common form of double attack is the fork, a simultaneous attack by one unit against two hostile units. The aggressor unit inserts it self at some midpoint, between the two attacked units, and the defender finds, to his chagrin, that he can save one of his men, but not both.

in theory, any chess pieces has the capability of forking two enemy pieces, Knight forks and Queen forks occur with most frequency, the come Bishop, Rook, and Pawn forks. a fork by the King is rarely seen. for example:

-Rook forks

-Queen forks

-Bishop forks

-Knight forks

-Pawn forks

2. The Pin

The pin is a tactic that can only be performed by a line pieces, a bishop, rook, or queen, the line pieces directly attacks an enemy units, the pinned pieces, who in turn shields or screens a more valuable pieces, standing to the rear. these are the three main actors in a pin, the pinning pieces, the pinned piece, and the screened piece. Should the pinned piece move off the line, the screened pieces then falls to a capture, not at all a desrable prospect for the defender.

ocassionally the screened objective is not a piece at all, but a critical square, an entry point. Again, if the pinned piece moves off the line, the attacking piece enters the critical square, usually with fatal effect to the king. For example:

-Screened King

-Screened Queen

-Screened Rook

-Screened Entry Square

3. Discoveries and Skewers

Both of these are tactical decices which require use of an open line. the Skewer, a reverse cousin of the pin, is a three pieces line up, with an attacking unit and two enemy units, all posted on the same open line. in the skewer, it's the more valuabel of the two pieces which receives the brust of the initial attack. when it moves down off the attacking, the piece to the rear becomes subject to capture.

The discovery, another three pieces lineup, illustrates the idea a masked attack. a piece moving off an open line, unmasks an attack by a piece stationed in the rear. The attack by the stationary peces has to be dealt with immediately. This is particulary true if it is a discovered check to the king. but meanwhile, the moving pieces is free to roam and inflict maximum damage.

-Knight Move Discoveries

-Bishop Move Discoveries

-Rook Move Discoveries

-Pawn Move Discoveries

-Skewer Againts the King

-Skewer Againts other units

4. The Mating Attack

The attack on the king is one of the cornerstones of chess strategy, since capture of the king-techincal term: checkmate. is built into the very fabric of the rules. Carrying out the attack comes under the domain of chess tactics. Lines must be opened, defenders eliminated or neutralized, and the path to the enemy king made secure. the attack is rated completely successful when the net trhrown around the king culminates in mate. but a partial success is also registered when the defender is forced to jettison material in order to save his king. for example:

-Forced Mate in Two or Three Moves

-Forced Mate in Four or Five Moves

-Mate or Win of Material

5. Undermining the defense

we can examine the mechanism whereby the defensive structure is overthrown, or undermined. Here attention shifts from the primary objective to a key defender.

The annihilation theme is easy enough to grasp. the key defender is captured and removed from the board. it's called removing the guard. Similar in content, driving off is an attack on the defending unit, the intention being to literally drive it away from the critical sector. it's either move or be captured.

a more subtle form of undermining is the overload, taking advantage of the situation where the defender has become overburdened with too many chores perform. Closely related is the deflection sacrifice, which like the overload, is designed to draw the defender out of position. For example:

-Removing the Guard

-Overload

-Deflection

-Driving Off

6. Assorted tactics

in this chapter we pick up a number of tactical ideas that have not previously been dealth with. the double threat or double attack is a very close relative of the fork. However, a second attacking unit is normally required in order to assist in one the two threats.

Surrounding and attacking an enemy nit is a well-known stratagem. when it's done to the king, we call it checkmate. when it's done to any other units, it's called trapping.

the endgame and for that matter, the latter stages of the middle game, carry with them their own special themes, Pawn promotion the appearance of a new queen on the board. is certain to upset the material balance in a decisive way.

and finally, a player facing imment defeat must pull out all the stops to try and salvage a draw. coming to his rescue are the very rules of the game which [permit draw by stalemate and three fold repetition of position. Perpetual check fall uner the repetition rule.

Salvation may also be obtained by reaching a know endgame where the superior side simply does not have enough power on the board to enforce checkmate. this is called the book draw. For example:

-Double Threat

-Trapping

-Promotion

-Draw: Stalemate, Perpetual, Book Draw

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