Fork Quiz 1
This week we invite you to try your hand at some simple tactics involving forks. Just as basketball players practice layups and free throws, chess players need to practice elementary tactical positions over and over until solving them becomes second nature. In each position it is White to move and you are asked to find the fork. Solutions appear after Diagram 10. Good Luck!
Thanks to Richard James and ChessKIDS.com for providing the positions for this week's quiz.
Diagram 1
Diagram 2
Diagram 3
Diagram 4
Diagram 5
Diagram 6
Diagram 7
Diagram 8
Diagram 9
Diagram 10
Solutions
1. Qf6+!
2. Qa1+!
3. Nd5+!
4. Qe5+!
5. Qa4+!
6. Nf7!
7. e5!
8. Bd5!
9. Qh5+!
10. Qd5!
Comments
Hi Jon,
The diagram numbers appear at the top of the diagrams not below. The solutions are correct.
Thanks for the lead on the Oshana game.
Dan
Posted by: Dan DeLuca | December 18, 2006 8:37 PM
OK, Dan...Got to tell you that some of the answers on the quiz are mixed up... e.g. 9. is Bd5, not 8. and 10. is definitely Qh5 picking up B, not Qd5. One other item before I let you go. You might post something about the game circa 1970 in the latest CHESS LIFE of our elder statesman, David Oshana, in an article by Jon Jacobs on beating much
higher rated players. The game showed Dave with Black
winning over Ed Formanek with a beautiful Q sac in an Albin counter-gambit. I showed it to several at the Arabica on Sunday A.M. but have not seen David Oshana lately.
Ah! The pleasures of recalling one's triumphs of youth.
Posted by: Jon Malev | December 18, 2006 9:19 AM