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Chess tactics

Overloading

One defender, two jobs. Make it choose.

Example

The rook on d8 has two jobs: guard the knight and guard the back rank.

  1. 1. Rxd5: Take the knight.
  2. 1... Rxd5: If the rook takes back…
  3. 2. Re8#: …it has left the back rank. Mate.

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