1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too

White to play
Solutions on page 131
We should always be on the lookout
for a sacrifice that draws an opponent's
piece onto a critical square. A decoy
sacrifice's objective could be to deliver
checkmate or to win material.
Let's look at a combination that finishes
with mate; the first step is an initial
sacrifice to clear the g6 square;
then a decoy sacrifice to drag the black
king onto f8 and then the bishop and
rook quickly finish off the defenceless
king.
another tactical motif; in our first
example it is a fork, in the second a
pin.
1. f7+! (a pawn fork that forces either
the king or queen onto f7, allowing
a devastating knight fork) 1...
Wxf7 2. l2lh6+; otherwise 1... mxf7 2.
l2ld6+ and White wins easily.
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1. l2lf6+! gxf6 (not accepting the sacrifice
leads to immediate mate) 2.
Wf8+! (the decoy sacrifice) 2 ... 'tt>xf8 3.
.th6+ 'tt>g8 4. :!::\e8#
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In the following positions the decoy
sacrifices result in a gain in material;
As always, in the following two examples
the decoy sacrifice is followed by
1 . .td4 Wxd4 (the pinned queen cannot
escape its fate) 2. l2lb5+ and White
wins.
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