Chess Tactics

The purpose of these tactics is to help improve your chess game. Although there is no guanantee that your game will improve, the tactics will challenge your mind and help you to develop your strategies. There will be new tactics added every week, so bookmark this page and keep your chess at its best!

Chess is 99% tactics - Richard Veichmann

Strategy is a case of thinking, tactics one of seeing - Max Euwe

Chess is an unforgiving game - Emmitt Jefferson


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The Fork
The Pin
Discoveries and Skewers
The Mating Attack
Undermining the Defense
Assorted Tactics


The tactics were taken from Wilson, Fred & Bruce Alberson. "303 Tricky Chess Tactics." Cardoza Publishing New York: 1999.