Get rid of the defender: X-ray attack
An X-ray attack is a super cool chess trick. You saw that in the previous lesson. You look right through another piece to place a dangerous attack.
In this lesson, we are going to use power of the X-ray attack to take out a piece that is defending. If you do this well, you can once free piece or even mate!
Watch the example to find out how it works.
What do you have to do?
Use an X-ray attack to crack your opponent's defences. Then win a piece or mate.
First look at the position. Then you see that the white queen wants to give mate on g7. But the black queen defends against that.
Also notice that the black queen and bishop are on the same line. That gives white the chance to make a nice X-ray attack!
Do you see how?
White moves the c-rook two squares to the right (Rc1-e1), on the same line as the black queen and bishop. This is an X-ray attack with real power!
If the black queen wants to keep defending against mate, the queen must move to f6 to keep covering the pawn on g7. Then white can take the black bishop for free (Re1xe8). If black chooses to keep defending the bishop with his queen (Qe5-b8), white is completely lucky.
White can now simply mate by capturing the pawn near the king with the queen (Qg2xg7#).
