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

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

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.

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

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

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

#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 !

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

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gphzfph3sKmZiqc.htmlsi=SqEGtIbJFYND4QWD&t=2568

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

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

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

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!!

Now heres my most used tatic: THE BLUNDER

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

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

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

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

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.

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

(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

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

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

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

Why is scholar's mate higher than windmill?

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

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

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

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)

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

Dope Video! Very informative. Hit the Alekhine's gun on the same file as an opponent's king a few days ago in a blitz game. He was shook and blundered a check mate. F

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

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

"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.

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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.

43 clearance position used tripled pieces (a separate tactic) to start off so that wasn't a great example, but overall a good vid to remind me of some tactics to keep in mind!

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

54 tactics in less than 40 minutes ‼️ AAAAAAAAAWESOME

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.

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

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)

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.

Are you going to do all chess strategies ranked !!

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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.

4:44 i am a beginner, but , would not it be a mate if the rook moved anywhere in the g file except g8, g7, g6, and g5? Please answer

and tempo tactics that actually change the game are so rare absolute pins happen a lot and are so strong...

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

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

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

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

Amazing how many have used and had no idea they had names!

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.

This is gold.

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

Thank you !!!!

Hikaru: Where is my staircase?

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

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

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

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

What’s the difference between desperado and zwischenzug?

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

1:28 Or just mate in one after Qc8# ?

Ah yes. Checkmate, best chess tactic ever.

One time I did a discovered check while doing a fork of rook and bishop

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

What does one do if in the Greek Gift, the enemy goes Kg6?

You should record a chess game from different ELOs and point out every one of these tactics cause I wonder how many small tactics are in each game.

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

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

#35: Volclus got overloaded! :)

15:48 the "no" killed me xD

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

On #52 why you take the rook? You can checkmate him on f8

I keep getting ladder checks and underpromoting to A rook for the mate loads in games vs bots

Brilliant

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

4:33 17:42 22:06 24:04

On windmill, retrieving the rook to g3 isn´t it like M2?

I think trapped piece are quite often

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.

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

12:49 you forgot to edit 😬

broski forgot en passant 😔

and were putting this into s tier!

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

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.