Step by Step: Tactics #61
By Mark Donlan
Step by Step: Tactics is designed to test and improve your basic tactical skills. For best results, play the position out over-the-board and think for as long as you need without moving the pieces. You can also print out this page and use it as a workbook exercise in a classroom setting.
After the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 g6 4.Bb5 Nd4 5.Nxd4 cxd4 6.Ne2 Bg7 7.d3, how did Black win?

[FEN “r1bqk1nr/pp1pppbp/6p1/1B6/3pP3/3P4/PPP1NPPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq – 0 7”]
Circle the type of tactics that were involved in this puzzle:
- Checkmate
- Deflection
- Discovered Attack
- Double Attack
- En Prise
- Fork
- Pin
- Removing the Guard
- Skewer
- Trapped Piece
Sebe,F (2286) – Jicman,L (2229)
ANC POST IM Miercurea-Ciuc ROM (8), 28.09.2001
Sicilian Defense [B30]
7…Qa5 Forks the white bishop and king.
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