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Tactical Mastery

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Name
Number of tasks
Completion rate

Level 1 (Tactics 800—1000 ELO)

Chess Tactics for Beginners

120
0%
1. Gain a queen
2. Gain a rook
3. Gain a knight
4. Gain a bishop

Level 2 (Tactics 800—1000 ELO)

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

120
0%
1. Defend your knight
2. Defend your bishop
3. Defend your rook
4. Defend your queen

Level 3 (Tactics 1000—1200 ELO)

Chess: Year 2

313
0%
1. Double attack by pawn, bishop, rook
2. Double attack by queen
3. Double attack by knight - fork
4. Skewer
5. The pin
6. Protection from pins
7. Decoy
8. Deflection
9. Overloading
10. Clearance
11. Winning poorly positioned pieces. Bishops and knights
12. Winning poorly positioned pieces. Queens and rooks

Level 4 (Tactics 1000—1200 ELO)

Chess: Year 3

121
0%
1. Discovered attack
2. Intermediate move
3. Undermining
4. Interference
5. Passed pawns
6. Pawn breakthrough
7. Queening
8. Trapped pieces
9. Trapped queen

Level 5 (Tactics 1200—1400 ELO)

Chess Strategy for Beginners

274
0%
1. Tactical methods
2. Combination and its components
3. Double attack
4. Knight and pawn forks
5. Exploiting a pin
6. How to fight against pins
7. Discovered attack
8. Discovered check
9. Mill
10. Double check
11. Decoy
12. Blocking
13. Smothered mate
14. Distraction
15. Weakness of the back rank
16. Square clearance
17. Line clearance
18. Annihilation of defense
19. Interception
20. Intermediate blow
21. Intermediate check
22. Play for a stalemate
23. More about play for a stalemate
24. "Desperado" pieces
25. Invasion of a square

Level 6 (Tactics 1400—1600 ELO)

Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600 ELO)

404
0%
1. Opening the lines
2. Clearing important squares
3. Clearing the lines
4. Decoy
5. Decoying to Knight forks
6. Distraction
7. Distracting pieces from defending the back rank
8. Interception
9. Discovered attack
10. Mill

Level 7 (Tactics 1600—1800 ELO)

Chess Tactics Art (1600-1800 ELO)

258
0%
1. Opening the lines
2. Clearing important squares
3. Clearing the lines
4. Decoying the king into a mating net
5. Decoying to attack lines
6. Decoying to forks
7. Decoying
8. Distracting with mates combination
9. Diversion from a key point
10. Diversion in conjunction with a linear attack
11. Distracting pieces from defending other pieces
12. Unblocking by decoy
13. Intercepting a piece defending another piece
14. Intercepting in conjunction with mating threats
15. Discovered attack
16. Mill