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An Infestation of Forks

An Infestation of Forks

Silman
| 18 | Tactics

We'll finish up our study of forks by looking at Bishop, Queen, Rook, and even King forks. Instead of waxing poetic, I'll just jump right to the puzzles since, by now, I expect all of you to be fork experts.

As always, make sure to look at the hidden prose and variations embedded in the puzzles!



White is daring Black to chop on e4. Should Black take the bait?



Should Black take on e4?


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