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Must-master tactical motifs: fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack, and calculation patterns that accelerate rating climb.
2 articlesTactical Patterns: Pin, Fork, Skewer, Discovered Attack
The four tactical motifs that show up most often from amateur to master games, plus how to train your eye to auto-detect each in 2-3 seconds.
Read article →10 Tactical Patterns to Climb from 1000 to 1800
Ten most frequent tactical patterns in amateur chess games: fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack, double attack, back-rank mate, smothered mate, x-ray, deflection, and zwischenzug.
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