Tactics You Can See
Turn tactical ideas into visible patterns rather than mysterious tricks.
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Forks, Pins, Skewers & Basic Combinations
Turn tactical ideas into visible patterns rather than mysterious tricks.
Train your eyes to notice checks, captures and threats, then recognise beginner tactics such as forks, pins, skewers and discovered attacks.
Eight things this guide teaches you.
- How to scan checks, captures and threats for both sides
- How to reduce one-move oversights
- How forks work with different pieces
- How to recognise absolute and relative pins
- How skewers reverse the pressure of a pin
- How discovered attacks are created
- How defenders become overloaded or removed
- How to build a short tactics practice routine
Tactics You Can See
Most beginner tactics begin with a simple observation: one piece is undefended, a king and queen share a line, or a knight can attack two targets at once. Tactics You Can See teaches a repeatable scan before introducing the core patterns one at a time.
Each idea is connected to the question that reveals it: What checks exist? What can be captured? What is threatened? What happens after the opponent’s best reply? The aim is not to promise quick rating gains, but to develop a more careful way of looking at the whole board.
Eight chapters, with their start pages.
- 01Checks, Captures and Threatspage 4
- 02Build One-Move Visionpage 14
- 03Forkspage 26
- 04Pinspage 38
- 05Skewerspage 50
- 06Discovered Attackspage 62
- 07Remove the Defenderpage 74
- 08Create a Tactics Practice Routinepage 86
Page numbers refer to the planned 96-page edition.
Visual learning made for real games.
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Beginners who frequently lose pieces or miss one-move opportunities.
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