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Fork in Chess

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The Wiki pedia Definition: In chess, a fork is a tactic whereby a single piece makes two or more direct attacks simultaneously. Most commonly two pieces are threatened, which is also sometimes called a double attack. The attacker usually aims to gain material by capturing one of the opponent's pieces. In other words,Fork is a kind of Double attack against two or more targets at the same time. In the following example it is White to move first. White plays Rf7+(sse the position below)giveing check to king and palnning a beautiful fork in next move Let's say Black King goes to g6 square playing Kg6 then here comes Rb7! by white forking two Bishops on B-File(see diagram below) Let's take another example with white to move again. White applies a beautiful combination Qxf7!!. Now Black is forced to capture else checkmate is unstoppable. ..Rxf7

Paul Morphy king's gambit

my first project Hello Chess Lovers!!! I cuouldn't help it but publish this beautiful game played by Paul Morphy-All time great. Without taking much time i would embed the game taken from lichess.org. Iwan't give millions of thanks to the creator of the study. Enjoy!!!!

Prophylaxis

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The position is taken from test your skill section-article, Prophylaxis in Chess Solution: Black's Idea:- The Black's light Square Bishop is poorly placed at d7.The idea of Black is to simply open Queen side by playing c5 and hence activate the Bishop. Prohylaxis:- The White, if senses this, should play c5! and make the situation hopeless for Black.

Playing against Fritz