{"id":15746,"date":"2025-11-10T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pseudo-pins\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:50:33","slug":"pseudo-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pseudo-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudo pins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=21a8027c-a287-5b85-a4da-3ed404569a28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1273\" height=\"1271\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lions use teamwork to hunt bigger prey like water buffalo and giraffes. In chess, black\u2019s bishop and knight use teamwork to take down bigger prey \u2013 namely, white\u2019s queen.<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s king and queen both sit on the same e1-a5 diagonal. Without any support, black\u2019s bishop slides onto that diagonal at b4, creating a pseudo-pin because white\u2019s queen can simply capture the bishop. This lures the queen onto the b4 square.<\/p>\n<p>Just like one lion thwarting a giraffe\u2019s flight by sacrificing its body in a frontal assault and allowing another lion to leap on its back and bite down on the giraffe\u2019s throat, the knight leaps onto c2, forking the white queen and king with check (see next diagram)<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=09f2c812-060a-53f2-8ae5-7364e6b24cf9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1275\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After the king moves, the knight captures the queen, and white is lost.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson this week is that in chess pseudo pins are the real thing.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-669f7373f50923cc832a8af76d0bcea4\"> 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":15747,"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-15746","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\/15746","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=15746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19821,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions\/19821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}