Talk:That One Attack

Can they count as examples in the non-video game section?

For example, in chess, any double attack where one of the attacks is a check and where you can't neutralize the second threat by parrying the check. If your opponent comes with such an attack, be it a fork, a skewer, a discovered attack or whatever, you can quickly lose one or more pieces. Unlike in video games however, these attacks are only possible if you yourself allowed them by poor gameplay at the first place. (At least in theory all misfortune is self-made because if both players played flawlessly the game would be drawn.)

Also in professional chess tournaments, it sometimes takes a single unexpected move of the opponent for the player to realize that they have messed up. In hindsight everything becomes logical but during the game it is that one move which suddenly shatters your victory dreams. Basically an Oh Crap moment. Worse, it can cause the player to get nervous and make even more mistakes, screwing the game completely when there was a small winning chance left initially.

Sure, why not? I know that, when I played chess, a fork would always frustrate me... so I think a double attack would qualify here.

I added the double attacks in chess now under the non-video game section. However, explaining the stuff above needed a few sub-bullets, and that's why it looks a bit confusing now with all the footnotes below. (Previously, the destinction between text and footnotes was more obvious.)

Thanks.

We can probably fix the footnotes issue by putting examples on subpages - which would also clean up the confusion between sections about game types and the section about a specific game.