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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?
🧩 Puzzle 1: Decoy
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White to play and win.
🧩 Puzzle 2: Decoy
White to play and win
🧩 Puzzle 3: Fork
Black to play and win a piece
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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Discovered Attack]
Today’s theme is about intermediate moves in chess.
💡 Key Insights:
Let us see an example to understand this
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White to play and win
Qb8 helps white to be in the same line as the black queen in the B column. After Black blocks the check with Bf8, White can play Bf7 to do a discovered attack and win the queen on B2.
Qb8 Bf8 Bf7 discovered attack and wins the queen.
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