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In Today’s Newsletter, we will learn about a middle game tactics called Fork

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Fork

A Fork is a tactic in which a single piece attacks 2 or more pieces at the same time. Fork concept is also called as double attack

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Let us understand this concept with an example

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Here, the white knight can go to e7 and can attack the black king on g8 and black queen on c6 at the same time, now after the black moves, white knight can capture the c6 queen for free. So, by going to E7, the white knight forks the queen and the king (See the image below)

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I hope you are loving this tactic, let us do a couple of more puzzles

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Here, white can play rook to g4 and attack both the black king and the bishop at the same time.

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Here, the pawn on d4 can move to d5 and attack the black queen and king at the same time to do a fork.

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Generally, chess players associate fork with only a knight double attack. However, fork can be performed even with other pieces like pawn, rook, bishop or a queen.

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Puzzle of the day

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Challenging Puzzle

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Try the below puzzle, only if you are 1-2 years of experience in chess

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Share your answers to [email protected]

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^{_{Download the below file below to solve more fork puzzles}}

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That concludes this edition of our newsletter. Keep practicing, keep learning, and keep pushing the boundaries of your chess skills.

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In the next newsletter on Thursday, we will learn about a concept called Discovered Attack and Discovered Check.

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Author,

Ramalingam Karthik

Chess With Ramkar

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