Quick Checkmates
13 • Chessucation •- Fool's Mate
- The Fidgety King
- The Knight's Dream
- Scholar's mate
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Basic Checkmating Patterns
6 • Chessucation •- Back Rank Checkmate "Rook'n'Roll"
- Backrank Checkmate
- Smothered Mate - The King in his own prison!
- Smothered Mate - A funny example.
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Famous Checkmates
1 • Chessucation •- Boden's Mate
- Anastasia's Mate
- Greco's Mate
- Legal's Mate
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Advanced Opening Principles
8 • Chessucation •- Principle 1: Occupy and Attack the Center!
- Good and bad moves
- Good Knights and Bad Knights
- Principle 2: Get Your King out of the center!
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Warm-Ups
1 • Chessucation •- 8 vs 5 pawns
- 8 vs 6 pawns
- 8 vs 6 pawns with advanced pawns
- Pawns vs Knights
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Introduction to Tactics — Double Attacks
2 • Chessucation •- Double Attack
- Forks!
- Killer Knives — Double Attacks By Bishops
- Sneaky Forks
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Introduction to Tactics — The Pin
1 • Chessucation •- Absolute and Relative Pins
- Ganging Up on a Pinned Piece
- Ganging Up on a Piece in Relative Pin
- Using pins to Attack!
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Chess Tactics: Overloading
8 • Chessucation •- Overloading 1000
- Overloading 1100
- Overloading 1200
- Overloading 1300
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Tactics from Games
1 • Chessucation •- Pin and Interference -- Paijk (1844) - lamentierschweinchen (1812)
- Bode Mate // hassy123 (1899) - lamentierschweinchen (1914)
- Backrank // rleonhart (1673) - lamentierschweinchen (1707)
- Attacking when down Material // Sreeshanth (1800) - lamentierschweinchen (1808)
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