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I Fork Myself, Or Let The Fork Happen
Compiled by Gilmoy
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Canonical self-fork:
1. Alice moves a piece where it can be taken by a pawn. 2. Bob doesn't take it.
3. Alice moves a 2nd piece where it is forked by that same pawn. 4. Bob can't take them both.

Partial self-fork:
1.5 Bob moves a pawn to attack Alice's piece.
2.5 Alice doesn't retreat the piece; goto 3.

Partial, 14..g5 16.Nf4
Kotov vs Keres, 1950 
(E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 33 moves, 1-0

GotD 2015/05/21 "Big and Tal"
Fischer vs Tal, 1959 
(B87) Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5, 52 moves, 0-1

Partial, 15..g5 19.Nf4
L Mista vs J Fichtl, 1974 
(C16) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 1-0

Canonical, 13.Nf5 b5 14.Bd5
Fedorov vs Z Lanka, 1997 
(B89) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Canonical, 14..Bf5 15.a3 Nbd5
P H Nielsen vs T Hillarp Persson, 1998 
(E97) King's Indian, 33 moves, 0-1

Canonical, 13.Nf5 b5 14.Bd5 -- is theory through 16!?
V Palciauskas vs V Andriulaitis, 2001 
(B89) Sicilian, 52 moves, 1-0

Partial, 17.Bb4+ c3 18.Nd4
W Al-Tarbosh vs Kuzubov, 2011 
(A04) Reti Opening, 27 moves, 0-1

Partial, 14..g5 16.Nf4 (after Kotov vs Keres, 1950)
M Prilleltensky vs M Molner, 2011 
(E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 26 moves, 1-0

Canonical, 31.Nxe5 f4 32.Qxc5!!
Y Yu vs S Li, 2012 
(C95) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer, 47 moves, 1-0

Partial, 35.f4 Bxg5
Leko vs Mamedyarov, 2012 
(B07) Pirc, 54 moves, 1/2-1/2

GotD 2013/01/15 "Nerves of Steel" - Canonical, 14..Bc5 15..Nde5
Aronian vs Anand, 2013 
(D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 23 moves, 0-1

11.Nf5 b5 12.Nd5
M Rydell vs J Rapport, 2013 
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 31 moves, 1/2-1/2

15..Nde5 16..Bc5
A Greenfeld vs Short, 2015 
(A09) Reti Opening, 22 moves, 0-1

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