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In this lesson, we are going to trap pieces without help from your opponent’s pieces. You need to move your own pieces to really good squares.
Look at the example to see how this works.
What do you have to do?
Trap an enemy piece. Find a piece that has few squares it can move to and attack it.
Special attacks: trapping pieces (2)
In the previous lesson, you learned how to trap pieces that couldn’t escape. Their own pieces were in the way and you could make use of that.In this lesson, we are going to trap pieces without help from your opponent’s pieces. You need to move your own pieces to really good squares.
Look at the example to see how this works.
What do you have to do?
Trap an enemy piece. Find a piece that has few squares it can move to and attack it.
The black queen has no freedom of movement.
Here, it are the enemy pieces that stop the piece from fleeing.
Wherever she goes, White can capture.
White places his rook under the queen (protected by the knight).
This wins him material.
Here, it are the enemy pieces that stop the piece from fleeing.
Wherever she goes, White can capture.
White places his rook under the queen (protected by the knight).
This wins him material.
