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Top 50 Beginner Chess Tactics

Relevant course: The Complete Guide to Chess for Beginners

• 1. Fork

• 2. Pin

• 3. Skewer

• 4. Discovered Attack

• 5. Discovered Check

• 6. Double Check

• 7. Back Rank Mate

• 8. Overloading

• 9. Deflection

• 10. Decoy

• 11. Zwischenzug (Intermediate Move)

• 12. Removing the Defender

• 13. Trapping a Piece

• 14. Smothered Mate

• 15. Windmill

• 16. Double Attack

• 17. Underpromotion

• 18. Perpetual Check

• 19. Stalemate

• 20. Breaking a Pin

• 21. Greek Gift

• 22. Queen Sacrifice for Mate

• 23. Overprotection

• 24. Hanging Piece Exploitation

• 25. Quiet Move

• 26. Mate in Two Tactics

• 27. Interference

• 28. X-ray Attack

• 29. Queen and Bishop Battery

  See: Battery

• 30. Unprotected King Tactics

• 31. King Hunt

  See: King Hunt

• 32. Clearance Sacrifice

  See: Clearance Sacrifice

• 33. Undermining

  See: Undermining

• 34–50. More tactics coming soon

  This Top 50 list is being upgraded into full glossary pages with examples. For now, use the Essential Chess Glossary.