MSK Chess's video: test your positional play chess tactics

Although we tend to think of tactics in terms of motifs like pins, skewers, forks etc they can be readily divided up into three categories. 1. Tactics which result because of the position of the pieces, things like a king and queen on the same semi/open file or two rooks on the same diagonal. One only need to envision a bishop on the same diagonal to see the tactical potential. 2. Tactics which result because of the dynamic potential of pieces. One simply needs to think of a passed pawn on its way to the queening square, or a discovered attack and its the dynamic potential of the pieces which result in the tactic being executed. 3. Tactics which result because of some strategic weakness. We only need to think of tactics like a back rank mate, or an exposed king to realise that these strategic weaknesses can be a very powerful way to exploit tactics in a chess position. Of course tactics may result as a combination of all of these features, however its up to the chess player to attempt to discern what is the most prominent feature of a chess position, whether strategic or tactical and to formulate his plans and ideas along these lines. Original video is by Tuvshin and can be found here : https://vimeo.com/135255923 The original audio is by TheMarxbrosband and Late night escapades and can be found here respectively. https://soundcloud.com/marxbrosband/oh-well-by-fleetwood-mac-1 https://soundcloud.com/last-nights-escapades/05-oh-well-fleetwood-mac-cover My thanks go to all the artists and musicians who made this video possible and especially to the software engineers who coded the open source software to make the creation of this video possible. Created using Ubuntu Studio : https://ubuntustudio.org/ https://www.facebook.com/msk.chess http://www.chess.com/blog/robbie_1969... chess, echecs , ajedrez , xadrez , shahmati , szachy , sjakk , schach , schaken , satranj , шахматы , شطرنج