Combination


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 * [[image:Ouch-boxing-footwork.jpg link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striking_combination"]] ||~  || A **Combination** is a sequence of moves which uses tactical means and exploits specific peculiarities of the position to achieve a certain goal . Combinatorial motives may include tactics like pins, discovered checks and attacks, double attacks, forks and so on. It often starts with a sacrifice or decoy, and leaves the opponent very few forced options to reply.

The search routine of a chess program may take some plies to recognize an initial sacrifice pays off, to distinguish it from a [|blunder]. Extensions are designed to recognize successful combinations earlier, often triggered by forced and often singular replies from the defending side. A so called //Petite combination// involves only a few moves. || toc =See also=
 * Striking combination ||~  ||^   ||
 * Danny Kopec - How to ... Video
 * Decoying
 * Deflection
 * KnockOut
 * Sacrifice
 * Zwischenzug

=Publications=
 * Jacques Pitrat (**1976**). //Realization of a Program Learning to Find Combinations at Chess.// Computer Oriented Learning Processes (ed. J. Simon). Noordhoff, Groningen, The Netherlands.
 * Jacques Pitrat (**1979**). //A Program which Uses Plans for Finding Combinations in Chess//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 2
 * Jacques Pitrat (**1980**). //The Behaviour of a Chess Combination Program using Plans.// Advances in Computer Chess 2
 * Kevin Coplan (**1982**). //A Special-Purpose Machine for an Improved Search Algorithm for Deep Chess Combinations//. Advances in Computer Chess 3
 * Azlan Iqbal (**2010**). //Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations//, Part I Combinatorics and Weights. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3
 * Azlan Iqbal (**2010**). //Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations//, Part II Normality. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4

=Forum Posts=
 * [|What is a combination? Define it please!] by Don Dailey, CCC, September 06, 1998

=External Links= > feat. John Lee, Gerry Brown, Philip Catherine, Jasper van 't Hof, [|Rob Van Den Broeck], [|Jan Huydts], [|Robert Jan Stips], [|Henny Vonk] > media type="youtube" key="MH51IL4gikI"
 * [|Combination (chess) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Combination (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Combo from Wikipedia]
 * [|Improve Your Middle Game (Part 2 - Combinations)] by Mark Weeks
 * The Chris Hinze [|Combination] - Skyrider, from [| Sister Slick] (1974), [|YouTube] Video

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