Trying to make sense of the web of tactical devices and to organise them into "families"
Summary of Tactical Devices
1. The Attack and Defense
Counter attack (Zwischenzug) "intermediate move"
2. The Simultaneous Attacks
Battery (compounded attack)
Discovery
Discovered Attack
Discovered Check
Double Check
Double Blow (simultaneous theme)
Fork
Pin
Skewer
3. The Undermine
Distraction (Deflection)
4. The Monarch Attacks (Checkmating patterns)
5. The Sacrifice
Active
Decoy
Clearance
Passive
6. The Enforcement of the Draw
Pursuit
Stalemate
7. The Implosion (Zugzwang) "compulsion to move"
Motifs:
Double threat
En Prise
Encircling and entrapment
Forcing moves
Function
Geometry
(more tactical motifs need to be added)
*actually come to think of it, a good exercise would be to link motifs with tactical families to assist tactical thought in games and study.