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* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: Sometimes made by inexperienced players as a result of misjudgement.
** There is also a unique kind of ''forced'' senseless sacrifice. It happens when one king is already close to being checkmated. If the king himself cannot get out of check, and the checking piece cannot be captured, one of his own pieces must be put inbetween him and the checking piece (given the checking piece is a queen, rook or bishop). If the intervening piece ends up on an unsafe square, the opponent can subsequently just capture it and deliver checkmate.
** Some either inexperienced or sadistic players prefer [[Leave No Survivors|capturing all enemy pieces before checkmating]] their opponent, even if this means they take ''much'' longer to win the game than necessary. Particularly funny if the final checkmate fails and [[Gainax Ending|becomes a stalemate]] instead. (Experienced players [[Averted Trope|avert]] this by a timely resignation when they're on the losing side. Also a time limit makes this strategy prone to [[Hoist
* [[Serious Business]]: When entire lives have been dedicated to mastering the game as much as is humanly possible, you better believe chess is ''very'' serious business.
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