Fork (chess), the Glossary
In chess, a fork is a tactic in which a piece multiple enemy pieces simultaneously.[1]
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- Chess tactics
Alexey Dreev
Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (Алексей Сергеевич Дреев, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player.
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Check (chess)
In chess and similar games, check is a condition that occurs when a player's king is under threat of on the opponent's next turn. Fork (chess) and check (chess) are chess terminology.
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
Chess tactic
In chess, a tactic is a sequence of moves that each makes one or more immediate threats – a check, a threat, a checkmating sequence threat, or the threat of another tactic – that culminates in the opponent's being unable to respond to all of the threats without making some kind of concession. Fork (chess) and chess tactic are chess tactics.
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Chessgames.com
Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.
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FIDE World Chess Championship 2004
The FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13, 2004.
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King (chess)
The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess.
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Knight (chess)
The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck.
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Mohamed Tissir
Mohamed Tissir (born 1976) is a Moroccan chess player.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess.
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Rook (chess)
The rook (♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess.
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Rules of chess
The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess.
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The exchange (chess)
In chess, the exchange is the difference of a rook for a (i.e. a bishop or knight). Fork (chess) and the exchange (chess) are chess terminology.
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The Oxford Companion to Chess
The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference book on the game of chess written by David Vincent Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.
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Two Knights Defense
The Two Knights Defense (also called the Prussian Defense) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: First recorded by Giulio Cesare Polerio (c. 1550 – c. 1610) in the late 16th century, this line of the Italian Game was extensively developed in the 19th century.
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See also
Chess tactics
- Alekhine's gun
- Back-rank checkmate
- Battery (chess)
- Block (chess)
- Castling
- Chess tactic
- Clearance sacrifice
- Combination (chess)
- Corresponding squares
- Cross-check (chess)
- Decoy (chess)
- Deflection (chess)
- Desperado (chess)
- Discovered attack
- Exchange (chess)
- Fork (chess)
- Fortress (chess)
- Greek gift sacrifice
- Interference (chess)
- Key square
- King hunt
- Opposition (chess)
- Overloading (chess)
- Perpetual check
- Pin (chess)
- Queen sacrifice
- Réti endgame study
- Sacrifice (chess)
- Skewer (chess)
- Smothered mate
- Staircase maneuver
- Trapping the queen
- Triangulation (chess)
- Undermining (chess)
- Windmill (chess)
- X-ray (chess)
- Zugzwang
- Zwischenzug
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(chess)
Also known as Double attack, Forking (chess), Knight fork, Royal fork.