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King Chase

The document describes a King Chase in chess where Black pursues White's king across the board. Black begins the chase by moving its queen to check White's king. White is forced to retreat its king to avoid capture. Black continues pressuring White's king with checks from its rook and queen, limiting the king's movement. Black decides to continue the chase over capturing White's bishop. The chase culminates with Black's bishop blocking any escape for White's king, leaving it vulnerable to imminent checkmate.

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King Chase

The document describes a King Chase in chess where Black pursues White's king across the board. Black begins the chase by moving its queen to check White's king. White is forced to retreat its king to avoid capture. Black continues pressuring White's king with checks from its rook and queen, limiting the king's movement. Black decides to continue the chase over capturing White's bishop. The chase culminates with Black's bishop blocking any escape for White's king, leaving it vulnerable to imminent checkmate.

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Eight Square™: In Hot Pursuit of the King

The king is both the most venerable and vulnerable chess piece on the board.
Especially in the opening, the king should be protected. Protection for the king can
be accomplished by castling or forming a defense. If not, as the game develops,
the king can be susceptible to a check that forces the king to move. This check
precludes the king from performing the castling special move in the future. A king
that has neither castled nor formed a defense may be chased out of the safety of a
back-rank and most-likely pursued into checkmate. This hot pursuit is called a
King Chase. A King Chase may require sacrificing pieces or passing up
opportunities to capture material. Queens are especially effectively at King Chase.

Here is an example of King Chase.

It is Black’s move and the Black queen begins the chase. The Black queen
moves from d5 to d3, taking the pawn and checking the White king. The White
king has only one legal square to move f1 to g2. If White blocked the check with
its queen, the White queen would just be captured because of the rook on e8.

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It is Black’s move and the Black rook moves from e8 to e2 checking the
White king. Also, this move is attacking both the White king and bishop. The
White king retreats from g2 to the h3 square.

Black has to make a decision to capture the White bishop on d2 or continue


to chase the king. Black continues the chase by moving its queen from d3 to f3
capturing a pawn and checking the White king. The White king has only one legal
move and retreats from h3 to the h4 square.

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Black continues the pressure on the White King by bringing in its bishop
from c5 to f2 which checks the King. The Black bishop to e7 move would allow
for White’s bishop to block the check, while Black bishop to f2 forces the king
from h4 to g5 across its protective pawns into the wild and towards the Black
king’s protective phalanx of pawns on h7, g7, and f7.

Black’s bishop now blocks any hope for escape by the White king. Where
can Black move for checkmate?

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