Saturday 26 September 2009

The Knight Fork



The Knight fork is the most popular tactical theme aside from the pin. Actually, the Knight fork is the special case of the Double attack-- an attack on two units by a single unit. But knight fork is particularly effective, and particularly dreaded, especially by inexperienced players. Sometimes Knight Fork appears in a simple setting. It is merely necessary to give a knight check as a preliminary to the winning fork. A Knight fork is often deadly in combination with a pin. Generally speaking, the most effective Knight forks are checks. Here in this diagram White attacks King and Queen; king must move; The Queen is lost. Finally, a Knight fork may often come at the very end of a combination, with an effect which is all the more Powerful.

1 comment:

  1. The proceeding of double attack may be led to this knight fork attack. It can’t be a planned one, because the piece set up must be suitable for it. Since this is a random process it can’t be pre planed, when the knight fork is successful it always terminate high powers.

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