Talk:Fork (chess)

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Aren't there some opening traps that involve queen forks that would make a good example. ... I've had both of these happen to me:

• n. Qh5+ ... n+1. Qxe5
• m. ... Qe5+ m+1. ... QxRa1

If nobody has a ready example, I'll try to dig one up... Jeff 18:24 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

There are a couple of almost unbelievable examples of this sort of thing from games at quite a high level. Combe-Hasenfuss, Folkstone Olympiad 1933 went 1. d4 c5 2. c4 cxd4 3. Nf3 e5 4. Nxe5 Qa5+ 5. resigns. This is given in Mike Fox and Richard James' The Complete Chess Addict (1987) as the shortest ever loss by a master. I'll let somebody else put it in the article if they want, though—I'm not sure how to best format it. --Camembert

Postscript: see World records in chess for a shorter game with a similar fork. --Camembert

After only a few times playing over IRC, a long time ago, I once quadruple forkchecked him with my knight, checking his king (duh), queen, rook, and pawn. Is that good? :) lysdexia 03:52, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Example queen rook fork

i'm not really into chess algebra, but shouldn't it be Nd2 instead of Nd3 -- the knight is on f3, so he can't move along line 3 can't he?

Besides, it is perhaps not impossible that after a king queen fork, you don't loose your queen. This happens when moving your king opens the way for a piece that checks the other king. --Selach 23:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC)