ALL 54 CHESS TACTICS RANKED || Examples, Puzzles, Explanations
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Today, I ranked the top 54 chess tactics, including forks, skewers, double attacks, pins, and much more with various puzzles, explanation, and examples. Thank you for watching, like and subscribe for more, and I'll see you next time!
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0:00 54-51 - F Tier
2:26 50-41 - C Tier
9:18 40-31 - B Tier
16:55 30-21 - A Tier
23:40 20-11 - S Tier
29:45 10-1 - S+ Tier - Hry
The worst tactic is probably the 2 bishops battery because it has very likely never happened in a serious game
Me who promoted to a bishop in otb to troll:
True
It probably has been used in a couple obscure games where a Bishop underpromotion was optimal and some godforsaken conditions lead to needing such a battery. But even then, it sucks; Bishops are the worst pieces to have in batteries.
@@RuyVuusenI can’t think of any situation where that happens but I also can’t prove you wrong
@@reachvidurmuraliwats otb
I love how he forgot to re-record his lines sometimes.
I was looking for this comment😂
> stuffs up lines
> "no."
> says line perfectly
> leaves mistake in
🗿
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.
It's such a beautiful tactic when it happens, but sadly it's just too obvious for most people to not see
True
It’s kind of hard and much rarer compared to others
The reason it's called the game of the century is because this technique is so rare.
The windmill method is so rare to happened.
Being in a worse position is not that uncommon even if you're good. Everyone loses a lot of games
most o the time peo ple resing
Just because your position is worse doesn’t mean you should always resign
@@mausengonmned-5258I don’t resign, if a perpetual is in the position…
@@ReiAyasuka no crap dude
Except Hikaru has lost 0 classical games this year with like 15 wins and 35 draws XD but for regular people, this rule does generally applu
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
in that scenario was mate in one
@@luisenriqueper9476 was going to say that
Glad not only I saw that xD
@@luisenriqueper9476 is it really mate in one? black can play pawn to g6 or king to g8, they don't have to strand themselves on h8 and let the queen backrank them. but I could be missing something though...
1:28 After black moves I prefer go to the checkmate Qf8.
That will only work if black plays Kh8 instead of Kg8
@@Carboy45 which they did..
@@davidjames149
Now heres my most used tatic: THE BLUNDER
I like to call it a sacrifice
#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 !
Scholar’s mate belongs at the bottom by a mile.
True
That's not a tactic that's a opening
@@drfate2885 That too!
It only works in beginner games. There will be a point where everyone and their moms will know how to defend against it.
@@d1kgaws12even if you have no idea you can avoid it by just developing the knigt
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!!
2:20 centralizing Your King is a essential tactic itself. You must operate with a King, too!
7:42 Attraction leads to another tactic, such as a fork, and deflection leads directly to a capture with no other tactic.
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
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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
True! Opposition in a king and pawn endgame would've been a bit better of an example
Thank you, this is what a lot of players miss.
Ah yes. Checkmate, best chess tactic ever.
Others: the best tactic is fork or pin or skewer etc.
Hikaru: the best tactic is take take take.
No hikaru likes take take check check take take check check check mate
I really liked your explanations for each tactic and presentation, very easy to understand. Keep going!
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
Thanks that’s very useful and I’ve learnt lots of new tactic here
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: czcams.com/video/L2CK5FKC5Zs/video.htmlsi=SqEGtIbJFYND4QWD&t=2568
I think it's great when it happens, but it really is quite rare. In total I've played somewhere around 4,000 games of chess, only in like 30 has a perpetual check been tried, and about 10 it actually panned out successfully
@@VolclusYou must not be very high rated then, I’ve seen it happen quite often in high level games.
@@MsLynguyenyep, im 2150 fide and its actually pretty common feature, mainly in queen endgames + some openings (marshall, semislav
@@Volclus i didn't watch the whole thing, but the top 10 only, and my question is where is interposition? It is a quite common and VERY useful + fun and complicated
Straight to the point and very crisp..you deserve more subscribers...thanks..
And obviously the castle-fork is so good that is belongs in S+ tier
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
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.
The discovered attack definitely isn't the most common, but imo it's the most fun of the basic tactics (pin, fork, etc.).
I like how you left in the restarts. It feels more like I'm listening to a person, not an "influencer".
the greek gift is one of my personal favourites because its rare but when you manage to do it its basically a free win
i think i won more than 10 games with greek gift sac last month. basically it depends on your opening and how you position your pieces.
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
Its a treasure video. Many many thanks. I can imagine how much time you would have taken for thi video. Amazing
Why is scholar's mate higher than windmill?
Scholars mate isn’t just a thing beginners do it’s any checkmate on f4 which is the weakest square. Most openings are centered around an attack on f4 so most openings are scholars mate technical
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)
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
Also known as a rambling piece. Very often a rambling rook.
Thank you !!!!
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
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
This is gold.
(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
I just want to say that I have used Alekhine’s gun to great success before (in one game… against a bot…)
#49 is actually called the mad rook tactic, where you check forever
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.
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 :)
Are you going to do all chess strategies ranked !!
54 tactics in less than 40 minutes ‼️ AAAAAAAAAWESOME
Pin/fork are definitely the best tactics and the most common ones.
1:26 bro was liike
"mate in 1 and win" nahh
"take the rook" YEAHH
Amazing how many have used and had no idea they had names!
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
Hikaru and levy literally already have that exact video btw
"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.
1:37 “You can take the rook”
Bro didn’t want to deliever mate in 1🗿🍷
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!
(#39 Rook Fork) Is very rare when you actually forgot to slide your rook on 7th/2nd rank
the cross-check then ignore mate in one tactic is really my favorite chess tactic
You should rank openings (but only like 20 or a few of the most common ones).
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)
Brilliant
Hikaru: Where is my staircase?
We should have a defensive tactics tier list (not opening) or does chess favor attacking more
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)
After Bc2+ isnt there both g6 and Kg8?
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
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.
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.
1:28 "We take the Rook"
Stockfish: But there was a mate in 1...
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.
Yeah, my understanding of a desperado would be a queen trapped by pawns and a rook taking the rook to at least regain some material.
Same with this person's definition of Zugwang doesn't seem right to me. Oxford Dictionary defines it as "a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage". And in their example, one side was already going to get mated, and not being able to "skip" their move would not prevent them from losing.
1:26 Boss, don’t take the rook, Qc8 or Qf8 is mate 😂
smothered mate
15:48 the "no" killed me xD
and tempo tactics that actually change the game are so rare
absolute pins happen a lot and are so strong...
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.
and were putting this into s tier!
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
1:27 - if black moves the king to h8, you don't need the rock)) There is mate in 1: Qc8
#35: Volclus got overloaded! :)
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.
5:04 was mate in 2: Rg5+ Rf6 Bxf6#
The desperado shown in the vid 18:37 was rather zwichenzug an in between move.
did he just use the decoy when he first explained the decoy as decoy?💀
18:33 on example 28 this tactic isn’t a desperado, it’s a zwischenzug
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.
Back rank mate can be avoided very easily tbh, it's not that hard to move a pawn up or just always have a rook in the back rank.
But for the pawn Fork, That;s hella painful and it happens to the best of us.
Xd I'm your opponent then, I do it all the time to my opponents and I almost never do get done to me.. Pattern recognition people, pattern recognition
at 1300 I keep getting pawn forked in bughouse
I think trapped piece are quite often
If windmill tactic happens in between a game it will be hilarious ngl 😢😂😂😂
One time I did a discovered check while doing a fork of rook and bishop
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
It's Reti - Tartakower, Vienna 1910
@@robinros2595 tysm Man you're the best, gonna remember that match. It's my favorite match of all time for now
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
Not until you take the pawn and bishop. Otherwise they can block. You are right tho that instead of taking the knight at the end it’s late in three by moving the rook down the g file
8:16
I thought for 30 seconds that it was checkmate before i realized white can take that bishop
Your "Mate in 2" scenario was also another example of removing the defender.
4:40 The windmill examples misses a checkmate by moving the rook back
L on his part
Only after you take the pawn and the bishop. So you still need the windmill tactic for mate you just don’t need to take the knight.
also using a decoy happens in like 70-80% of games and is the sole reason of a win
Bro underpromotion to knight is elite
#52 you put the queen on the last row and that's it, victory
one time i accidentally trapped my opponents king or in other terms accidentally checkmate my opponent by thinking its a check
I keep getting ladder checks and underpromoting to A rook for the mate loads in games vs bots
What's the name for the tactic where you check their king to force a block by another piece, then take that piece?
Is the answer decoy?
12:49 you forgot to edit 😬
I believe number 28 was not a desparado, that was a swischenzug ( an inbetween move). A desparado is when a piece for example a knight is trapped and you take a pawn instead of losing the knight for nothing.
Indeed, it was a zwischenschach, or in-between check. So the opponent was obliged to deal with it.
1:26
Blocking with the pawn: Nah
Kg8: Nope
Kh8 to blunder mate in one: Best move
What’s the difference between desperado and zwischenzug?
Underpormotion should move up because of the sheer psychological damage
Wish i could memorize all these 😂😂 i mean i had heard and known each one of these but forget during a game😂
I see all of them and so does my opponent. Basically none of them ever happen in a game.
the deflection tacic is ofter refered to as "the ICBM" because of a meme in an opening trap where its played
It can also happen in other openings such as the Lasker trap
Stalemate and perpetual check are obviously not bad enough that they intrinsically belong in C tier, FIDE just demands them to be scored unfairly.