Suggestions On How Not To Get My Queen Forked With My King A Lot

There are times when it seems as though my queen gets forked with my king on a lot of my games.   Any suggestions as to how not to get this to happen often.

A lot of it is just pattern recognition and practice looking out for forks, so that you don't fall into them as often.

There is one "easy-fix" thing which might help though. Knights can ONLY fork pieces on the same color as another. A Knight on a light-square can fork two pieces on dark-squares, or a Knight on a dark-square can fork two pieces on a light-square, but it can NEVER fork pieces on different colored squares from each other. Just keep your King and Queen on different color squares and it will be IMPOSSIBLE for a Knight to fork them both in one move.

Maybe just play 15/10, it's easy to not make one move blunders because yo7 have more time.

when you place a piece two squares away from a knight he will never be able to attack you

Any piece can fork but the problem you're experiencing is probably Knight forks. Over time you'll learn the forkable patterns and when to avoid them. As an exercise set up the board with just two pieces in all the Knight forkable patterns you can find. After doing so, you'll be surprised how easy they are to remember.

Don't let it happen. Don't put them on squares where they can be forked.

Yes, Craig, they're the knight forks (with the king and queen).

Awesome bit of advice! Thank you.

Puzzles will help too.

I personally use this--though of course you can't "always" keep them on different colors. But you can at least notice when they are on the same color and close enough together to be forked. Use that as a reminder to double check you aren't setting up a fork--and don't leave it that way any longer than you have to.

Great follow up! Thank you.

in your exemple; the is one squares, I have explain with two sqares

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