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In chess, decoying is the tactic of ensnaring a piece, usually the king or queen, by forcing it to move to a poisoned square with a sacrifice on that square.

The diagram on the right, with Black to play, illustrates two separate decoys. First, the White queen is set up on c4 (see algebraic chess notation) for a knight fork: 1... Rxc4! 2. Qxc4. Next, the fork is executed by destroying the sole defender of the a3 square: 2... Qxb2! 3. Rxb2 Na3+ 4. Kc1. Finally, a zwischenzug decoys the king to b2: 4... Bxb2+. After either 5. Kxb2 Nxc4+ 6. Kc3 Rxe4, or 5. Kd1 Nxc4, Black is two pawns ahead and should win comfortably.

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