What’s on the Discovered Attacks poster?

5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Two pieces on a line, with one of yours between them. Find the battery — Your long-range piece, your own piece in front, an enemy target be…; Move the front piece — It unveils the attack from behind.; Make it a threat too — The strongest discoveries create a second threat with the movi…; Discovered check — Even stronger — they must answer the check and cannot address the…; Double check — The strongest of all: only a king move is legal.. Against a double check, capturing the checking piece and blocking are both impossible. Only the king can move.

Who is the Discovered Attacks poster for?

Discovered Attacks belongs to the Chess section rather than to a school year, because games is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tactics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Discovered Attacks poster?

The moving piece can do anything it likes, because the threat comes from behind it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Discovered Attacks belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Discovered Attacks?

Tactical Motifs, Back Rank Mate and Calculating sit alongside Discovered Attacks in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.

Is the Discovered Attacks poster free to download and print?

Yes. Discovered Attacks downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chess section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.

What size does the Discovered Attacks poster print at?

Discovered Attacks is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Discovered Attacks loses nothing.

Discovered Attacks — free printable poster

Discovered Attacks — printable games wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

Discovered Attacks, step by step

Two pieces on a line, with one of yours between them.

Find the batteryYour long-range piece, your own piece in front, an enemy target behind.
Move the front pieceIt unveils the attack from behind.
Make it a threat tooThe strongest discoveries create a second threat with the moving piece.
Discovered checkEven stronger — they must answer the check and cannot address the other threat.
Double checkThe strongest of all: only a king move is legal.

Strength order

Discovered attack
Discovered check
Double check — the king must move

Against a double check, capturing the checking piece and blocking are both impossible. Only the king can move.

Questions about the Discovered Attacks poster

What’s on the Discovered Attacks poster?: 5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Two pieces on a line, with one of yours between them. Find the battery — Your long-range piece, your own piece in front, an enemy target be…; Move the front piece — It unveils the attack from behind.; Make it a threat too — The strongest discoveries create a second threat with the movi…; Discovered check — Even stronger — they must answer the check and cannot address the…; Double check — The strongest of all: only a king move is legal.. Against a double check, capturing the checking piece and blocking are both impossible. Only the king can move.
Who is the Discovered Attacks poster for?: Discovered Attacks belongs to the Chess section rather than to a school year, because games is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tactics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Discovered Attacks poster?: The moving piece can do anything it likes, because the threat comes from behind it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Discovered Attacks belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Discovered Attacks?: Tactical Motifs, Back Rank Mate and Calculating sit alongside Discovered Attacks in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Tactical Motifs Back Rank Mate Calculating
Is the Discovered Attacks poster free to download and print?: Yes. Discovered Attacks downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chess section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Discovered Attacks poster print at?: Discovered Attacks is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Discovered Attacks loses nothing.Printing guide

Discovered Attacks, step by step

Questions about the Discovered Attacks poster

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