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." 2022.11.22Andrews vs Franciscus G Janssens, London (1864): C55 Two knights defencehttps://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224582Robert James Fischer vs Edward D Stepans, 58th US Open (1957): B77 Sicilian, dragon, Yugoslav attack, 9.Bc4https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044063Wolfgang Unzicker vs Mikhail Tal, Milan (1975)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1140266Itzchak Veinger vs Gennadij Timoscenko, Seefeld op 9th (1998)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1300188Hikaru Nakamura vs Stephen Muhammad, Chessmaster US Championship 2005 (2004)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1322027Viswanathan Anand vs Vasyl Ivanchuk, 14th Amber Tournament: Rapid (2005)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1334604Magnus vs Emil Schallopp, Blindfold simul (1868)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1337372Valery Salov vs V Terentev, UdSSR UPandolfini,B Chess Life, (1982)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1120320Yury Shulman vs Allan George Savage, 30th World Open (2002)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1252323Gosta Stoltz vs Wolfgang Unzicker, Stockholm Interzonal (1952)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1152984Roland Berzinsh vs Josef Pribyl, Czech Extra League (2000/01)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1195594Garry Kasparov vs Stefano Tatai, Dubai Olympiad (1986)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070198Jose Raul Capablanca vs Frank Marshall, Capablanca - Marshall (1909)https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1094815J Smith vs George H Derrickson, Philadelphia (1860): C55 Two knights defencehttps://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224571