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Basic Tactics - Roundabout

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  • Basic Tactics
  • - Leapfrogging
  • - Opposition
  • - Seesaw
  • - Roundabout
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Roundabout
no Sound
Broken canvas...
to move
in hand
X X
   
 
   
 

After 1.cd5 Black must take a majority capture
Roundabout capture: arranging the opponent's pieces into a square or any configuration allowing roundabout capture, and decapitating the whole in a single sweep. Having 4 roughly equal caps can be dangerous!

Black's last move e87?? did put four pieces with roughly equal caps on the right squares ...

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