To win a chess game, you will need to checkmate. To checkmate, you will need to attack your opponent. And to attack your opponent, you will need to correctly develop your pieces. Developing the pieces is probably the most complicated part of the opening and you can always fall in a trap if you put your pieces on the wrong squares.
The most common example is the queen trap: when your opponent’s queen cannot move on a square without being captured! That’s the most common imprisonment of a pieces, but the Knights, Rooks and Bishops can be captured too! In this puzzle, we will see a beautiful Bishop imprisonment, but don’t forget the preparatory moves!
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To win a chess game, you will need to checkmate. To checkmate, you will need to attack your opponent. And to attack your opponent, you will need to correctly develop your pieces. Developing the pieces is probably the most complicated part of the opening and you can always fall in a trap if you put your pieces on the wrong squares.
The most common example is the queen trap: when your opponent’s queen cannot move on a square without being captured! That’s the most common imprisonment of a pieces, but the Knights, Rooks and Bishops can be captured too! In this puzzle, we will see a beautiful Bishop imprisonment, but don’t forget the preparatory moves!
20/ Escape me if you can! (Topics: imprisonment of a piece + preparatory move)