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This Thanksgiving, Try a Skewer! | Beginner Breakdown

Alex Moellering teaches a beginner chess class on skewers. A skewer is an attack upon two pieces in a line and is similar to a pin. A skewer is sometimes described as a "reverse pin."

2022.11.22
Andrews vs Franciscus G Janssens, London (1864): C55 Two knights defence
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224582
Robert James Fischer vs Edward D Stepans, 58th US Open (1957): B77 Sicilian, dragon, Yugoslav attack, 9.Bc4
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044063
Wolfgang Unzicker vs Mikhail Tal, Milan (1975)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1140266
Itzchak Veinger vs Gennadij Timoscenko, Seefeld op 9th (1998)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1300188
Hikaru Nakamura vs Stephen Muhammad, Chessmaster US Championship 2005 (2004)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1322027
Viswanathan Anand vs Vasyl Ivanchuk, 14th Amber Tournament: Rapid (2005)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1334604
Magnus vs Emil Schallopp, Blindfold simul (1868)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1337372
Valery Salov vs V Terentev, UdSSR UPandolfini,B Chess Life, (1982)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1120320
Yury Shulman vs Allan George Savage, 30th World Open (2002)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1252323
Gosta Stoltz vs Wolfgang Unzicker, Stockholm Interzonal (1952)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1152984
Roland Berzinsh vs Josef Pribyl, Czech Extra League (2000/01)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1195594
Garry Kasparov vs Stefano Tatai, Dubai Olympiad (1986)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070198
Jose Raul Capablanca vs Frank Marshall, Capablanca - Marshall (1909)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1094815
J Smith vs George H Derrickson, Philadelphia (1860): C55 Two knights defence
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224571