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Hi there.

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In this lecture, we're going to introduce the concept of a fork, a fork is when you use a single piece

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and you double take two of the opponent's pieces.

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So it's a great way of winning material quite often.

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So here won't play.

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Can you see a way of using a so-called fork if I give you five seconds supposably a.

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OK, well, your knights attacked as the first point to note, so you shouldn't really be using the

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rock here in general unless you can do a check, but you can do much better than this check.

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You can actually turn the balance of material in your favor here by using this check.

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So not moving on this track and we're forking the queen and the king.

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And then after we win that coin, we can win the end game quite easily.

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Broken King versus King.

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We can win that position quite easily.

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So the fork is essentially it uses the same piece to kind of double attack pieces and the opponents

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camp.

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So that's a basic fork.

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It's a very, very useful device.

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It's an example of overwhelming the opponent with a single move.

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Sometimes they cannot respond, especially if the fork includes a check because they're legally required

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here to respond to the check.

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So they really have no time in this particular case.

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After this check, they have to move their king here.

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OK, I hope that's clear.

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That's how much.