Tacking

A term introduced by Nimzowitsch, who defined tacking as follows:

"The process of tacking against two enemy weaknesses could be described roughly like this: two weaknesses, each perfectly defensible on its own, are brought under fire in turn, while the attacker relies mainly on his territorial superiority — on the better state of his lines of communication.

The game is lost because at some point the defender finds it impossible to match the opponent's speed in regrouping his forces...

You can also tack against a single weakness; in that case the variety of attacking methods (for example, frontal, flank, and turning attacks) must make up for the missing variety of weaknesses."

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Tacking is thus one type of maneuvering.