Decoying

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Decoying is a sacrificial chess tactic to force a valuable piece, most often the queen and/or the king to capture on a poisoned square, so that it becomes co-target of a double attack, often a knight fork, which finally results in a tangible gain of the whole combination.

See also

External Links

Darryl Jones, Miles Davis, John Scofield, Bill Evans, Al Foster, Mino Cinelu

References

  1. Decoy receptors / bind to ligands and inhibit signaling through actual receptors, Wikimedia Commons

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