Friday, October 10, 2008
Protecing Your Attacking Pieces
White can checkmate with his queen at g5 because his knight will protect his queen from being taken by black's king. This can be a very effective method of checkmating, because only one piece is needed to cover all of the squares to which the king might move.(Ignoring options for black's pawn) black could protect himself from checkmate by moving to h6. Then, when white moved his queen to g5, he could retreat to at h7. If black had a piece other than the king protecting g5, that would also save him from this attack. (Note that moving to h4 would just postpone checkmate, because after moving to h3, the white queen would checkmate at g3).
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