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Knight Fork: King and Queen

Theme: Fork | Difficulty: hard

White to move. This is the biggest kind of fork — find it.

Answer Key

Solution: Ne6+

Ne6+ is a "family fork": it checks the king on f8 and attacks the queen on d8 at the same time. The king must move out of check, and then White plays Nxd8 to win the queen.