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• Square Clearance
• Clearance Sacrifice
• Exchange Sacrifice / Exchange Sacrifice - Sacrifice a Rook for a minor piece
• Pawn Storm: Two or more pawns attack the castled king
• Fishing Pole Trap
• Mating Net: Catch the King before escaping the checkmate
• Greek Gift Sacrifice: Sacrificing the Bishop at the h7 square
• Zugzwang: where all possible moves are losing moves
• Windmill - Repeat a discovered check multiple times (like blades of a windmill) gain material each time

  Rook-Bishop combination
  Torre - Lasker "Windmill"
  

• The skewer
• Pigs on the seventh
• Battery
• Alekhine's loaded gun
• Rook lift - bringing the rook forward

• 4-move or Scholar's Mate - Ναπολεόντειο
• Smothered Mate - King surrounded by pieces - Knight delivers mate
• Back-rank Mate

• Arabian Mate - Rook + Knight trap king in the corner
• Boden's Mate - With 2 bishops, and pieces around the King
• Epaulette Mate - Pieces cover the sides of the King (squares directly to his left and right)
  • Similar: Swallow's Tail - pieces on the back right and left of King
• Morphy's Mate
• Dovetail Mate
• !!Anastasia's Mate - Knight blocks the diagonals of a King, Rook delivers mate
• !!Blackburne's Mate - Sacrifice Queen, Deliver mate with 2 Bishops and Knight
• !!Damiano's Mate - 2 Rook sacrifices, open up path for Queen to checkmate

• Blackburne_Shilling_Gambit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayfo1CfaMAc
• Queen's Gambit

1. Don't rush
2. Activate your king
3. Rooks belong behind panws Both when attacking and defending

• Skewer the king and rook in the endgame!!
• "rook-pawn" and wrong colored bishop -> Opponent can get draw if they can block the "rook-pawn"
• If you end up with King and Pawn do not separate them!! the Rook will eat it

DIRECT OPPOSITION of your king with the opponent's

• When the opponent has the pawn:
  • do not take your king off the passed pawn file
• When you have the pawn:
  • You have to move your king in front of the pawn by two squares
  • In order to advance your pawn to one-before-promotion square, you have to do this without check
• When you do have direct opposition as white, and your king is in front by two squares, push the pawn forward

DISTANT OPPOSITION

You want your king to end up at the same file as the opposite King and with an odd number of squares between them to draw; regardless of whether you have the pawn or not

King Triangulation Movement

• Lucena endgame - attack as white
  • Rf4 - building a bridge
• Philidor position - defend as black
  • Third rank defence
  • Keep the rook on the third rank until the opponent pushes the pawn forward

You have to force the king to the corner of the board to deliver checkmate

https://www.chess.com/lessons/opposite-colored-bishops-endgames

• Wilhelm Steinitz
  • First World Champion
• Joseph Henry Blackburne
  • At the same time as Emannuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz