Hi there.
In this lecture, I would like to show you a particular type of skua, which is not absolute, it's
just relative, so whites plain hair can actually further increase the advantage.
Can you see how if I give you five seconds, pause the video.
OK, Bishop Afri, it skewers this is technically obscure and it's a relative skewer, so it's not the
king.
So maybe there are some positions where even though we're attacking the queen and there's something
of lesser value behind the line of the queen and it doesn't have to be a diagonal, you know, it could
be a vertical, horizontal, any line kind of skewers, basically.
But here, yeah, there might be cases where black to do something else.
Black could ignore this.
It's not a check basically.
So it's a relative skewer and it increases essentially White's advantage once already doing well in
this position, but even better, after taking out that rock, even less hassle.
So, yeah, this is just a simple example of a relative skua.
You can see that the queen is being secured against that rock.
The bishop, in effect, is x raying this rock.
There's a kind of x ray.
You can think of it also like an x ray.
So the skewer tactic is very, very handy.
So when you have very valuable pieces like the Queen, then the option of a relative skewer is sometimes
there to think about, sometimes occasionally, if you're lucky.
So, yeah, Bishop Afri relative skua just want to get that time across.
If it was a king and queen, that this would have been an absolute skua.
But yet when it's the queen, OK, it's still a powerful tactical device disposal in some positions.
OK, and so much.