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My tips for being a 1200 (4) How and when to do discovered attack

My tips for being a 1200 (4) How and when to do discovered attack

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Have you ever wondered what a discovered attack is , usually it’s when you do an unexpected attack on your opponent without them noticing it, it’s usually very natural, even some gms make this mistake. Ok after the explanation of it. Let me show u a real one! Can you find the discovered attack for white.

If you think you have found it, then that’s the position on the above picture. Now white is attacking the knight on the g5 square, but most importantly, you can see white is attacking the queen on g2 as well! In this position, white used a discovered attack on black, the only not losing material move for black is trading the queens, and then black knight will escape. But if not, and the black knight escapes first, then white will definitely win a free queen! Isn’t this attack useful? Ok let me give you a few more example! 
in this position, white to move to escape the discovered attack. 

In this kind of position, there’re a lot of options here, the best move is just to move your king somewhere so black won’t do a discovered attack on you. Here’s another one! Black to move to escape!
Here, there’re a lot of options, but the best one is just to trade off the queens and then move the black rook to a safe square! In the end I just wanted to say that discovered attack is sometimes a very organised plan and sometimes it’s an accidental one. Therefore i hope after reading this forum, I hope you can find these discovered attack, usually under 800, people won’t find out about it! Try to set up a trap like this! Good luck on your games and have a nice easter holiday!

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