Tactics and Super Tactics
Tactical chess play is very important. Pins,skewers,forks are all examples of basic tactical moves that have to be used to gain advantage in your chess play to improve and increase your rating. Most good chess games involve and use tactical chess moves. Learning and using these is important in improving at chess!
Super tactics are tactical moves with even more advantage and finding and using super chess tactics will make you an even better player and further improve your rating! In this post I am illustrating this, by means of the good tactic of pawn promotion and the super tactic of pawn promotion with check!
Pawn promotion is a good tactic and can often be strong enough to allow a winning game to arise. However the super tactic of pawn promotion with check is sometimes crucial to obtain a winning game.
I have had occasions where this has happened in my games, but the game illustration I am showing here is pawn promotion with check in Larsen vs Balinas 0-1.
I looked recently at this game using 1.b3 opening (named after GM Bent Larsen himself) and enjoyed this super tactical pawn promotion with check move! By the way, I found this game very interesting as it has other tactical moves (blockades etc) and to see Larsen using his own 1.b3 opening (sometimes called the NimzoLarsen opening) and losing with it!
CRR will do more posts on tactics and super chess tactical moves in the future, as knowing and playing these helps improve you as a chess player and so improves your rating! 🙂