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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?

🧩 Puzzle 1: Checkmate your opponent in the opening

White to play and Mate in two.

🧩 Puzzle 2: Checkmate your opponent in the opening

White to play and Mate in two

🧩 Puzzle 3: Checkmate your opponent in the opening

White to play and Mate in two

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Hook Mate]

Today’s theme is about Hook Mate in chess

💡 Key Insights:

  • In Hook Mate, A rook or queen checkmates the king while a knight protects the rook and a pawn protects the knight

Let us see an example to understand this

Black to play and mate in three

Ng4 Kh3 Rh1 Bh1 Rh2#

After Rh2, The knight on g4 protects the rook and the pawn on h5 and f5 protects the knight

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