Hi there.
I just want to introduce you to the notion of this covert attack now, I discovered the tag, if it's
resulting in check, is actually often called a discovered check.
So the thing about discoveries is that sometimes you apply move and it looks as though you should just
be looking at what that particular move does.
But in fact, you should be looking at the whole position all the time because sometimes moves open
up all the pieces.
Now, here, white play, can you see, is this a very, very bad state of affairs or Rook's attacked
the opponents of Queen up?
Is it very, very sad or is there a silver lining here that we can use?
If I give you five seconds pause video, what do you think we can do here?
OK, we can actually play move which shields?
That rock and so we've showed it on rock and it's also check.
So actually we're going to be up here after the opponent moves, the queen, moves the king, rather.
We're going to take the queen and we're going to be up.
We're going to be winning.
So sometimes you have to look at the whole possession, the discovery of facts.
If, by the way, you know, we had moved here, then Rook takes Rook says that's that's not as good.
So we want to shield the rock and create this lovely discovered check.
It's a form of this covert attack.
It's more dramatic quite often, in my view, for discovered check.
Actually, it really depends on the example.
There are some really dramatic examples where, you know, whatever excites you, but here this is the
basic mechanism.
So quite often, you know, you're just looking at what the opponent's moves.
That's the mistake.
You're going to look at the whole position.
If they move, especially a pawn in the center, you know, they might vote, not the bishop.
The rook say, you know, in theory, you know, a pawn move from 845.
I hope you can visualize this.
Rook might have been open to age for a bishop, might be able to age seven.
So there's all these discovery effects of a pull move that could be potentially discovered attacks.
You know, by moving a pawn, you could be attacking something over there.
You could be attacking something over there.
Depends on where your pieces are.
So here you go, Bishop, every check and we winning the queen.
So for me actually is kind of one of my golden principles of calculation when you calculate in your
mind's eye.
Moves ahead.
You're not just looking at the move and thinking, well, what does that move threaten?
Like you might move a pawn.
You say, what does that pawn threaten?
No.
In fact, you've got to look at the weaknesses of the last move, the king of common squares and the
discovery of facts.
So if you move a pawn, especially in the center, they often do liberates other pieces and create the
potential potentially discovered attacks.
So you've got to like factor in this covert attacks, even in your mind's eye.
That, you know, definitely when you move a piece or pawn or move a piece of pawn, don't just be magnified
to just that section of the board.
You might have opened up something subtly say the opponent played for them out of subtlely.
I'm not a bishop.
Across the insides, I take on exposing an attack against your king.
So discovered.
You know, attacks discovered to tackle this kind of attack, it's a very, very powerful, subtle thing,
almost as if it's a secret that's been unveiled on the chessboard.
And the problem with a lot of interfaces, they have great big arrows or what the opponents you've lost
and you don't see these sometimes these discovery effects.
You've got to have a vision of the whole board.
What exactly has been liberated from the last move?
OK, but we're going to have a look at some concrete examples.
This is just an intro, intro, lecture.
I hope you got the point about discoveries a little bit and then we'll look at some examples, OK?
That's right.