# The DROP Method **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Chess\ **Created:** [March 10, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/the-drop-method/16128 "2012-03-10T19:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Triumph](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/triumph/32/1251_2.png) [@Triumph](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Triumph)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/the-drop-method/16128/1 "2012-03-10T19:42:54Z")
Greetings, CSCA President, Paul Covington, was looking for some feedback on 4 questions from top players about bringing a GM out and more stuff. See the survey at the end of the newsletter and let him know what you think. Also, I updated my photos with new pics and slideshows: Photos from the GalaxyFest Sci-Fi convention: [cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/alb … d=13059647](http://cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=13059647) Will the real Paul please stand up? [cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … =150871304](http://cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=150871304) Please God, don’t let him see the move. [cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … =150873896](http://cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=150873896) I refuse to make another move. [cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/pho … =150874020](http://cschess.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=150874020) Peace be with you, Paul Anderson The Newsletter ( [cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/ … rop-method](http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/12962454-drop-method) ) 1. Game Of The Week: The DROP Method 2. This Week In Chess 3. New Photos 4. President’s Survey 5. Game Viewer: Markus Petters v Paul Anderson ( [cschess.webs.com/](http://cschess.webs.com/) ) 6. Video: [youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLrcafDtkg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLrcafDtkg) 2012 Calendar Of Events for the Colorado Springs Chess Club: [cschess.webs.com/apps/calendar/](http://cschess.webs.com/apps/calendar/) For additional events, see the following websites: Denver Chess Club: DCC ([denverchess.com](http://www.denverchess.com)) Colorado State Chess Association: CSCA ([colorado-chess.com/](http://colorado-chess.com/)) Wyoming Chess Association: WCA ([wyomingchess.com/](http://www.wyomingchess.com/)) Kansas Chess Association: KCA ([kansaschess.org/](http://www.kansaschess.org/)) ps - Newsletter preview (for board diagram and video see The Newsletter): This week’s game comes from the Colorado Springs Open. This tournament is held in March and sometimes falls on Bobby Fischer’s birthday (March 9th). I was looking at this game yesterday because it was a rare tournament game I played on Fischer’s birthday. He would have been 69 on Friday, and I figured that I should chose a game with some Fischer connection since he is one of my most watched videos: Also, I found an old email in my chess account from Tim Brennan about doing a podcast for him on tactics. I had held off replying to him until I got my tactic notes a little more organized. Well, I keep putting that off. So, I decided to use my newsletter to help me move along the process. I will be chosing games to illustrate my new method of simplfying the myriad of tactics: The DROP method. The DROP method is a way to focus on those key tactics that appear most often and are most successful in chess games and cause a player to drop pieces. Hopefully, by mastering this method you will drop less material and cause your opponent to drop more. Of course, this is a work in progress. So, if you have any comments or suggestions to help develop the DROP method into a simple yet effective way to organize chess tactics, please let me know. The first idea in the DROP method is Discovery. Discovery is a chess move that attacks with one piece and unblocks (or frees) another piece for a different attack. It often occurs with the unblocked piece checking the king where it is called a Discovered Check. Here is a position where I got caught in a tactical combination that starts with a Discovery and ended when I resigned. It is white to move… ---
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