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Hi there in Atlanta, we're going to have another example of checks, and this highlights when checks

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can be quite bad.

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In fact, this particular example say we moved our bishop.

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Here it is.

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Check.

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And your opponent has three options.

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The bear in mind all the time they can move that king away here, in here.

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So these would be legal moves.

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They can obstruct, for example, like that.

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And here, ideally, if our rook was on D one, then we could actually capitalize on that.

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We could take that bishop.

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But here we can't capitalize on that.

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That is legal move.

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I mean, we can change off Bishop.

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Sure.

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But not too much damage.

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But the snag is the blanks.

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Third option.

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I wonder if you can spot what blanks third option is here.

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I remember that architecture, you know.

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You about to remember, I hope that the world can just take yeah, we've got to be careful of our checks.

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Can the opponent just take our checking piece so the free option of the king moves away?

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The check is obstructed.

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Or are checking pieces actually taken?

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There is a very, very special case I'm going to show you in the next election, though, of how this

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third option of taking the checking piece is not available.

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So I hope you digest this one, though, the three major options here.

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The best one is just to take the checking piece.

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OK, that's so much.