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Introduction to Tactics — The Pin

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  1. Absolute and Relative Pins
  2. Ganging Up on a Pinned Piece
  3. Ganging Up on a Piece in Relative Pin
  4. Using pins to Attack!
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Introduction to Tactics — Double Attacks

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  1. Double Attack
  2. Forks!
  3. Killer Knives — Double Attacks By Bishops
  4. Sneaky Forks
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Advanced Opening Principles

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  1. Principle 1: Occupy and Attack the Center!
  2. Good and bad moves
  3. Good Knights and Bad Knights
  4. Principle 2: Get Your King out of the center!
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Famous Checkmates

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  1. Boden's Mate
  2. Anastasia's Mate
  3. Greco's Mate
  4. Legal's Mate
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Quick Checkmates

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  1. Fool's Mate
  2. The Fidgety King
  3. The Knight's Dream
  4. Scholar's mate
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Chessucation's Study

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  1. Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 3
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Basic Checkmating Patterns

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  1. Back Rank Checkmate "Rook'n'Roll"
  2. Backrank Checkmate
  3. Smothered Mate - The King in his own prison!
  4. Smothered Mate - A funny example.
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