[Puzzle Road] Pin-Pong! (P9)

Welcome to Puzzle Road!

The puzzle road seems to work! You told me the puzzles are always easier, but it’s you that get better! The tactic is essential in a chess game and some players will have more difficulties on this topic than others: but you will still need to train it!

Today’s puzzle will be about a very important topic of chess in the tactic: the pin: to pin a piece means to make your opponent in the incapacity of play it, until the important piece is on the same diagonal as the pinned piece!

9/ Pin-Pong! (Topic: pin)

First move: Rook x f7 (!!)

We want to play Bishop f6, but we lose a tempo if we play the queen on another square f the g-column. That’s why we just take the pawn! Our Bishops will pin the opponent’s Bishop if he takes with the bishop. And if we take with the rook, we can easily take the bishop with our own bishop and continue the attack.

Second move: Bishop f6!

Alright, the opponent’s bishop does not attack our queen, because this one is pin by our bishop, and no black piece can protect the g7-square! Checkmate at the next move!

GG! Again, a brilliant tactic has been solved!

See you tomorrow for the next puzzle!
@Kyu13

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