The Pin and Fork Chess Strategy
Chess has simple strategies for winning simple games. But as we progress we need to learn advanced strategies to win advanced games. Powerful strategies are often those that combine two basic strategies. A good example of a strong strategy is the combined pin and fork strategy.
The pin strategy is good for the following reasons: checking the king, taking a major piece, and wasting the enemy's round. A pin strategy is checking the king when a major piece allied to it is behind it in a horizontal or vertical line. Thus, when we check the king and it evades check it unwittingly exposes the major piece behind. Then we easily capture the said piece.
The fork strategy is a way of double-checking the enemy king plus a major piece simultaneously with our single piece. From the position of our checking piece the check route often forms a "Y" path. When our single piece checks 3 enemy pieces at the same time, the route or path forms a fork. Thus, a "fork" strategy.
When we combine the pinning and forking strategies we have a single piece checking the king and a major or minor piece even if they are not standing on the same horizontal or vertical line but standing separately on the forked path of our single piece. For instance, if our queen stands such that its right and left diagonal paths can check the enemy king and a rook separately we do a combined pin and fork strategy.
Another example is when our bishop stands such that its right and left diagonal path can check the enemy king and a rook separately, and then the enemy queen stands behind the enemy king diagonally so that when the king evades the check the queen gets captured by our checking bishop. If the enemy should find a way to block our bishop's check against the king we then capture the rook.
A combined pining and forking strategy is seldom possible but if we prepare well for it we can do it several times in a game. We just need the right timing, positioning, and pieces. The strategy is not possible if we're left with just our king and some pawns. Rooks are capable of this strategy and so is a knight.
A combined pin and fork strategy is a fatal tactic that aims to paralyze the enemy by taking major pieces using the enemy king as bait. If we learn it well it can make us formidable in chess.
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