Pawn Fork Tips

In a Chess Game pawn is minimum valued piece and so many of player juts forget of pawn’s power until he was in fork attack. Due to this low cost idea & slow movement so many players will not see any threat from pawn. But keep in mind that pawn is very powerful with this pawn fork technique. I’ll explain few patterns which can be help to identify & how we can proceed with pawn forks.

Here is a very simple pawn attack. you can see that 2 Chess knights are in a row number 4 and locations e4 & g4. Now these 2 knights are going to be forked by f2 pawn. Just  a single step forward will make a very simple but powerful pawn fork attack.

Here is the Theory:

In any rank(row), when 2 chess pieces are standing with a gap of exactly 1 block apart from each other There is a possibility to get pawn attack.

Tips:

Don’t keep chess pieces in a single row without any protection.

Don’t keep Chess knights  in a single row when enemy pawns are close enough.  

Tricks:

If you are in a pawn fork try to find a Check by using forked chess pieces.

Try to capture any other chess pieces by using forked chess pieces.

Try to get out one forked chess piece & place a attacking position on major chess piece like Queen or Rook.

Advice:

Don’t make a pawn fork unless you can’t make a profit of it. Profit means that by time or points.

Sometimes we can’t find a pawn fork situation but doing small adjustment we can have it. I’ll explain how that can done in next article.

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Chess Fork

In a Chess game we have a special tactic called FORK. Fork is a technique which a single chess piece attacks two or more chess pieces simultaneously. Most of the time we called this tactic is double attack. The reason behind is that is most of the cases fork happens attacking 2 chess pieces. But in some cases for can be happen on more than 2 chess pieces. Attacking chess piece is called by FKORKING chess piece & attacked are called by FORCKED chess pieces.

Major and most Common fork chess piece is Chess knight. When a Chess knight is moving all player should aware of forking situations. So it is bit hard to get forked by knight since all players aware of fork master.  Then we used Chess pawn for this tactic. We can use all chess pieces for fork attacks. But we get more chance or more benefit if we can use lower rank chess pieces for forking process. 

Knight fork is very powerful tactic and that may cause huge damage to the opponent like losing Queen or Rook.  Most of the time is one of the forked chess piece will be King. So we have to scarify major chess pieces to protect King. Also there are few techniques which can be useful to overcome fork situation. But that is more or less depending on the game plan.  

Queen fork is more valuable in end game situation. When we have more space in the chess board we can use Queen to attack unprotected chess pieces by making Check to King.

In Above image shows how powerful Knight Fork is. Opponent will lose Queen and Rook by few forks.

There will be few articles about Fork Tips in near future with images & steps. This article is only for basic understanding of Chess fork. 

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Checkmate

Checkmate is a state in a Chess game. Only one player can be Checkmate at a time means that both players can't be in Checkmate states same time. Player who is under Checkmate state is a looser of the game. Delivering checkmate is the ultimate goal in a chess Game.

Checkmate state is a position of a chess game & in this position one player's King is Directly attacked by other payer's Chess pieces. First payer don't have any legal movement to protect his King. Normally in Chess games it has a practice to say that "Check" before Checkmate movement. But that is not necessary. Finally it can say that "a player who is checkmated loses the game".

Most of the time players resign before they get Checkmate. Sometimes game will Ends without a checkmate. That can be stalemate or Draw. stalemate is a State which player don't have any legal move and King is not under check state. There are lots of tricks behind to reach ultimate goal. In that Major Chess pieces will play major role in Later game. Queen & Rook are the Major Chess pieces.

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