Tactic tags

[mrcm]

I see a recurrent tactic topic that is not in the tags, it is the queen trap, or more genericaly trapped piece.

Other topics could be mate attack, pawn promotion, passed pawn, or simplification to arrive to a won endame.

Regards

[slacker00]

I haven't really been paying attention to the tags.

One thing is that only the very simplest problems will fall under a singular theme.  The more difficult problems will  often have a variety of themes, especially when  you consider sub-variations.

As I go through the problems,  maybe I'll try  to start voting for appropriate tags.  I guess if there's multiple themes, I'll vote for the predominant theme if  there  is one.

[richard]

I've been meaning to get around to adding more tags.

The additions I'm considering are (added yours thanks mrcm):


Trapped Piece
Mate Attack
Pawn promotion
Passed Pawn
Simplification
Distraction
Removing Defender
Clearance
Poisoned Piece
X-Ray Attack (probably same as skewer, but some people disagree)
Interception
Zugzwang
Blocking (same as interference)
Deflection

I think some of these might just be different names for existing tags, here is the list of existing tags for comparison:

Pin
Skewer
Fork
Discovered Attack
Smother
Sacrifice
Overloading
Interference
Double Attack
Undermining
Combination
Decoy
Back Rank Mate
Hanging Piece


Which of the new candidate list do people think are duplicates of existing tags with different names?

Any other tactic themes I'm missing?

[richard]

I haven't really been paying attention to the tags.

One thing is that only the very simplest problems will fall under a singular theme.  The more difficult problems will  often have a variety of themes, especially when  you consider sub-variations.

As I go through the problems,  maybe I'll try  to start voting for appropriate tags.  I guess if there's multiple themes, I'll vote for the predominant theme if  there  is one.

The tags will really come into their own with the problem search and custom problem sets where users can create problem sets based on tags, for example a problem set that includes all forks (or refining further to say a problem set with all forks and ratings above 2000). At the moment there are probably not enough tags done to make this super useful but I hope that changes over time.

The problem search and custom problem sets are paid subscription only features, but  hopefully tags are also useful to non-paying users, especially beginning level players who might need signposts to help better understand a problem.

I agree that many problems have multiple motifs, since the recent UI update users have been able to vote for multiple tags per problem (previously there was only one vote per user per problem), so if you see multiple themes don't hesitate to tag all of them.

Regards,
Richard.