Racing King Middlegame Tactics
Catch Blunders and Eat them up for breakfast
Introduction
Welcome back for the 2nd part of the RK guide by @Somebody457! Today I'll be teaching you how to catch early blunders and increase your rating!!
The Three Tornado Tactics
I consider 3 tactics really catchable and fun that people blunder. I'll go down, starting with the most common, the Hard Working King, followed by the Prickly Queen and at the end, Go Back, King!
The Hardworking King
The hardworking king is based on the no-check rule. It's like this:
Genius vs Idiot BTW, please don't note that at move 2, black hanged a rook and you could have taken it then instead of waiting until waiting for move 8. Also, please don't note the mate in 1 in move 8, he was playing for a berserk point.
Genius took the rook, Idiot thought that he could take back, but surprise! He couldn't take back, because it would be check.
The Prickly Queen
The Prickly queen is a tactic which includes a hidden queen on the diagonal. For example, see the rematch of Genius and Idiot: Genius vs Idiot. If you think Genius & Idiot are unrealistic: check my game in the Daily RK Arena against a 1600: Somebody457 vs. Naitik21. What happens is that black is excited thinking of the rooks blocking white's king and the gap behind the rooks for the black king to get out of. They get so cocky, they overlook the queen in the corner.
Go Back, King!
This tactic doesn't give you a huge advantage, just the tempo. Check the last game of Genius & Idiot: Genius vs Idiot. This when you trade, but the king is forced to go back, or lose the game. When, the king goes back, the white king is a whole file in front of the black king, so will have the tempo.
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Signing off,
Somebody457
