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Chess Anecdotes
"Talent? What is talent? It is 99 percent labor and 1 percent natural." --GM Gata Kamsky
A pointless check only to postpone defeat is known as a spite check. It raises eyebrows.
There's a funny chess saying I want to share with you.
It reads: "Monkey sees a check, monkey gives a check."
Most beginners tend to give check at every opportunity.
You lose tempo if the checking piece is forced to retreat.
You must have a good reason for doing this.
Winning material or forcing a checkmate will make a point.
You might not realize how precious tempo is.
It's like allowing your opponent to have two moves in a row.
Ways of losing tempo:
(a) making a move that forces the opponent to do something he would have done anyway;
(b) placing an important piece on a square where it can be attacked
Usual Tactics
Tactics take short-term opportunities to trap or ambush enemy pieces,
hence you gain an advantage in force.
Open your game carefully. When the time is right,
launch a brutal attack against your opponent's army.
If you choose the right tactic, the threat will prove successful.
Use your line piece against your opponent's lined up pieces:
The Pin, The Skewer, The Fork/Double Attack.
A surefire approach:
Destroying the Guard.
Harass the enemy king and win material:
Discovered Check/Discovered Attack.
Force the king to move:
Double Check.
This is a weak point. Use your eyes; spot and exploit:
Overworked Piece.
How to trick greedy players:
Decoying.
Keep his piece in your place:
Trapping.
Loose piece + sacrifice + double attack =
Sham Sacrifice
Instead of the obvious move,
you make an intermediate move and then calmly go back to business as usual:
The In-between Move.
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