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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?
🧩 Puzzle 1: Mate in one (Discovered Attack)

Black to play and mate in one
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🧩 Puzzle 2: Mate in one (X-Ray attack)

Black to play and mate in one
🧩 Puzzle 3: Interference

White to play and win
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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Trapping Piece]
Today’s theme is about trapping pieces in chess.
💡 Key Insights:
Here, you will be trapping your opponent’s piece where you will play a move and attack a piece and restrict its movement
Let us see an example to understand this
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Black to play and trap a white piece
Bg5 traps the queen on h6.
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