{"id":13804,"date":"2026-01-27T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/life-is-soup-and-you-are-a-fork\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:41:22","slug":"life-is-soup-and-you-are-a-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/life-is-soup-and-you-are-a-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is soup, and you are a fork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=918b5501-1c54-5910-bcbb-ddb2b2fa65ff&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"615\" height=\"612\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The word <em id=\"emphasis-1a224b51529bc7c31ecb3d88ebb94283\">fork<\/em> is derived from the Latin furca and dates back to about 2400 B.C. The ancient Egyptians and Chinese used forks. Forks are here to stay, you might say.<\/p>\n<p>During the Shang Dynasty, a Chinese mystic once allegedly opined, \u201cLife is soup, and you are a fork.\u201d With this hint in mind, try to find White\u2019s best move.<\/p>\n<p>The black king is cornered, which limits the king\u2019s options. White exploits this with rook to b8 for check. If the black king accepts the sacrifice, White\u2019s knight forks the black king and queen from c6 (see next diagram).<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ecbf8f92-c476-5e8b-b8be-1d791fd211a8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"611\" height=\"615\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Alternatively, if the black king declines the rook offer and moves to a7, the knight again forks the king and queen from c6.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson this week is that, in chess, a fork can scoop up pieces like a spoon.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-18d295ad190c9b1e6c3b4919f2cdbccf\">Reach Eric Morrow at <a href=\"mailto:ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com\">ericmorrowlaw@gmail.com<\/a> or (505) 327-7121.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>move and win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1091,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-columns","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19169,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions\/19169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13804"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}