D Is For Discovery IX

Game Of The Week

A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics. I called it the DROP Method. The DROP method is an acronym for the basic kinds of tactics. It is meant to remind you not to drop your pieces and help you get your opponents to drop theirs.

I said that the DROP Method was a work in progress, and it was. So, I thought I would revisit each of the four kinds of chess tactics to provide more examples. The first kind of tactic in the DROP Method is Discovery.

Discovery is a chess move that attacks with two pieces.

The Discovery is played when a player is going to make an attack with the piece that he moves, but also he will make an attack with another piece that was blocked by the piece that he moves. When the Discovery is successful, the opponent can only avoid one of the attacks. This means that the other attack will gain material or mate. The second attack is often a check on the King, which is called a Discovered Check.

"Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard."

(Reuben Fine)

Here is a position from a game played between Mark McGough and Rhett Langseth in the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday night, online event, Cancel Chess.  There are actually two good moves here.

White to move

Mark discovered one of the moves and was certain that he had blown-up the competition with his 300-point upset in the final round and was sure to be awarded a medal for his valor.  Unfortunately, he was stunned by the discovery that my guns had knocked him out of the sky and taken his place on the medal stand.

Lyrics from Iron Maiden's Aces High

Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers

Let off a sharp burst and then turn away

Roll over, spin 'round to come in behind them

Move to their blindsides and firing again

Bandits at eight o'clock move in behind us

Ten ME-109s out of the sun

Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them

Heading straight for them, I press down my guns...

D Is For Discovery IX

[Event "Cancel Chess Online"]

[Site "https://cschessnews.blogspot.com/"]

[Date "2021.06.06"]

[Round "4.3"]

[White "McGough, Mark"]

[Black "Langseth, Rhett"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "B07"]

[WhiteElo "1617"]

[BlackElo "1939"]

[PlyCount "95"]

[EventDate "2021.06.06"]

[TimeControl "600+10"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. f4 e5 5. Nf3 c6 6. Be2 Qc7 7. O-O Be7 8. a4

b6 9. Be3 Ng4 10. Qd2 a6 11. Kh1 Rb8 12. Rad1 b5 13. axb5 axb5 14. d5 Bb7 15.

Bg1 b4 16. dxc6 Bxc6 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. Qxd5 Qxc2 19. Bb5 Ngf6 20. Bxd7+ Nxd7 21.

fxe5 Rd8 22. Nd4 O-O 23. Nxc2 dxe5 24. Qb3 h6 25. Qg3 Kh8 26. h3 Bf6 27. Rd5

Rc8 28. Rxd7 Rxc2 29. Qb3 Re2 30. Rxf7 Rg8 31. Qxb4 Bg5 32. Qb7 h5 33. R1f5 Bh6

34. Rxh5 Kh7 35. Rxh6+ Kxh6 36. Qd7 Re1 37. Qf5 g6 38. Qxe5 Ra1 39. Kh2 Raa8

40. Be3+ g5 41. Qf6+ Rg6 42. Qe7 Rh8 43. Qe5 Rhg8 44. Rf5 Kh5 45. Rxg5+ Rxg5

46. Bxg5 Rg7 47. Bf6+ Kg6 48. Bxg7 1-0

https://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game-replayer.php?id=116628

This Week In Chess

On June 6th, the Colorado Springs Chess Club held the Cancel Chess Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10). John Brezina won the gold, Jose Llacza claimed the silver on tiebreaks, and Paul Anderson got the bronze.

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/cancel-chess-2383030

Place, Cancel Chess Rapid Online, Score

1 "#1 Czechmate1972 (1725)" 3.5
2 "#2 JJ7X (1907)" 3.0
3 "#3 cschessnews (1765)" 3.0
4 "#4 msmcgough (1617)" 3.0
5 "#5 pretbram (1500)" 2.0
6 "#5 bazinga2 (1583)" 2.0
7 "#7 jfoxhoot (1675)" 2.0
8 "#8 KingVed (1527)" 1.0
9 "#9 CosmicNovaGalaxy (1486)" 1.0
10 "#9 Termenoil (1939)" 1.0
11 "#11 Cocomcfrecal (1031)" 1.0
12 "#11 grahamjcjg (781)" 1.0
13 "#13 albertgardner (1397)" 0.5