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An X-ray can be used to look right through somebody. Doctors use it see if a bone is broken.
An X-ray defense is quite the same. You protect a piece by looking right through another piece!
Do you want to know how this works? The example shows it.
This manner of defending is not easy. If you master it, you have added a another great tool to your chess toolbox!
What do you have to do?
Protect your piece with an X-ray defense.
Defense: smart protection
This lesson teaches you another super smart way of protection. This is sometimes called an X-ray defense.An X-ray can be used to look right through somebody. Doctors use it see if a bone is broken.
An X-ray defense is quite the same. You protect a piece by looking right through another piece!
Do you want to know how this works? The example shows it.
This manner of defending is not easy. If you master it, you have added a another great tool to your chess toolbox!
What do you have to do?
Protect your piece with an X-ray defense.
The knight has no safe squares. So moving is not an option. But you can protect the knight.
This can be done in two ways, but only one of them is correct.
If the rook follows the red arrow to the red square, the queen will capture.
White loses even more points than by simply handing over his knight!
But the rook can also follow the green arrow. Click on the play button to see what happens.
On the green square, the rook looks straight through the queen. Thereby, he protects the knight.
Should the queen take the knight, the rook simply takes back.
Notice that on the green square, the rook is protected by the bishop.
If that weren’t the case, the queen would take the rook.
So, white defends his knight by moving the rook to a protected square.
This can be done in two ways, but only one of them is correct.
If the rook follows the red arrow to the red square, the queen will capture.
White loses even more points than by simply handing over his knight!
But the rook can also follow the green arrow. Click on the play button to see what happens.
On the green square, the rook looks straight through the queen. Thereby, he protects the knight.
Should the queen take the knight, the rook simply takes back.
Notice that on the green square, the rook is protected by the bishop.
If that weren’t the case, the queen would take the rook.
So, white defends his knight by moving the rook to a protected square.
