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Coercion theme missing from puzzles.

"Coercion involves forcing your opponent to move a piece to a square where it will be vulnerable to another tactical motif."

In this puzzle lichess.org/training/Z3hzJ, the king is being coerced to a square it will be forked. This theme should be added IMO. Upvote if you agree.
This sounds very similar to what lichess calls "attraction".
Lichess says Attraction is: An exchange or sacrifice encouraging or forcing an opponent piece to a square that allows a follow-up tactic. Coercion is when you force the piece with threats, not exchanges or sacrifices.
True, that's a difference, although I think it's small enough that the two could be filed in one category. So maybe lichess should expand the definition slightly: "A move encouraging or forcing an opponent piece to a square that allows a follow-up tactic."

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