Susan Polgar · Chapter I

The Fork Club

Five positions built around the tactic that never goes out of style: one move, two targets. Find the fork before you move the mouse.
PUZZLE 1 / 5
White to move

Select the piece that creates the fork.

Once you find the fork, the idea behind it appears here.

Puzzles A and E follow the exact lines given in the book's opening trap and in "Susan's Corner." B, C and D are built to isolate one forking idea each — knight, pawn, and queen — since several of the book's own diagrams didn't survive scanning cleanly enough to reproduce square-for-square.