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Hi there.

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In this lecture, I would like to show you a particular type of skua, which is not absolute, it's

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just relative, so whites plain hair can actually further increase the advantage.

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Can you see how if I give you five seconds, pause the video.

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OK, Bishop Afri, it skewers this is technically obscure and it's a relative skewer, so it's not the

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king.

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So maybe there are some positions where even though we're attacking the queen and there's something

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of lesser value behind the line of the queen and it doesn't have to be a diagonal, you know, it could

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be a vertical, horizontal, any line kind of skewers, basically.

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But here, yeah, there might be cases where black to do something else.

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Black could ignore this.

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It's not a check basically.

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So it's a relative skewer and it increases essentially White's advantage once already doing well in

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this position, but even better, after taking out that rock, even less hassle.

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So, yeah, this is just a simple example of a relative skua.

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You can see that the queen is being secured against that rock.

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The bishop, in effect, is x raying this rock.

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There's a kind of x ray.

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You can think of it also like an x ray.

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So the skewer tactic is very, very handy.

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So when you have very valuable pieces like the Queen, then the option of a relative skewer is sometimes

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there to think about, sometimes occasionally, if you're lucky.

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So, yeah, Bishop Afri relative skua just want to get that time across.

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If it was a king and queen, that this would have been an absolute skua.

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But yet when it's the queen, OK, it's still a powerful tactical device disposal in some positions.

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OK, and so much.