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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?
🧩 Puzzle 1: Skewer
White to play and win
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🧩 Puzzle 2: Skewer
White to play and win
🧩 Puzzle 3: Interference
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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Underpromotion]
Today’s theme is about intermediate moves in chess.
💡 Key Insights:
In underpromotion, you promote a pawn into something except for a queen as taking a queen will not be beneficial.
Let us see an example to understand this
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White to play and win
Rc8 Rc8 Qa7 Ka7 C8=N and forks the queen and the king
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Rc8 Rc8 Qa7 Kc7 B8=Q wins
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