Remove the guard & discovered attack
In this lesson, you will again deal with a defender by combining two tactics. This time, the discovered attack (or short: disco) is your extra weapon.
Take a look at the example to see how it works.
Chess fact
If two (or more!) pieces are lined up and ready for an attack (as in the example the white knight and the bishop), this is called a battery in chess.
The term battery is used in the army when there are several types of weapons lined up. So it has nothing to do with a battery as a source of energy.
What do you have to do?
Win material or checkmate your opponent with one of the techniques to remove defenders (capturing, deflection or decoy) in combination with a discovered attack.
There are two things that stand out in this position:
- The white knight and the bishop are nicely lined-up. If White moves the knight out of the way, the bishop attacks the queen (discovered attack).
- The black king is smothered by his own pieces.
White is going to use these to his advantage.
White moves the knight to e5 (Nf3-e5).
Now Black has a big problem. Do you see why?
If Black captures the knight with the bishop (Bf6xe5), then of course the white bishop takes the queen (Be2xh5).
But the queen cannot move comfortably either. If the black queen takes the white bishop (Qh5xe2), f7's defender is lured away and White's knight delivers a smothered mate.
In short, Black has the choice between losing a queen or being checkmated.
Poor Black...
