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A concept in chess that involves targeting one of the opponent's pieces or a construct of them. For example, one can attack the opponent's king or pawn structure.

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Attacking play in chess

General rule of thumb: On the attack, you should not want to swap (unless you can force a mate/material winning combination by doing so) - after all, who is going to continue the attack when the attacking … Maybe you can now attack there? All of this comes from experience. …
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What is this tactic called?

Here, we have a double attack where one of these attacks is a discovered one (the rook on the queen) and the other is a decoy (the knight check lures the queen to a square where it will be undefended). …
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What will be the best move in this position?

I think so, yes. Black cannot ignore the sacrifice as there is the threat of Bg6#. Moving the queen away to make space for the king won't help: 1.. Qb6 (Qc7, Qa5) 2. Bg6+ Kd8 3. Nf7+ Same for the …
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