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I don't mean to argue, just try to understand and hopefully learn. There's skewers, pins, forks, discovered checks and maybe attraction. What else is there in terms of tactics? The rest just seems to me ad-hoc combinations, so ad-hoc in fact that they are unnamed cause they can't happen twice.
– Marcus Junius Brutus
Commented Mar 1, 2014 at 19:23
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@MarcusJuniusBrutus sounds like an excellent question! What different types of tactics exist? The quick answer is that there are a few basic tactics and the complicated tactics are a combination of the basic ones.
– user2001
Commented Mar 1, 2014 at 19:26

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