Skewer to Use Enemy Strength Against Itself
In chess, strength is not always a winning virtue. A shrewd player can easily turn enemy strength into a liability. We should learn how to use our strength for our benefit, and especially to use enemy strength for our advantage. In short, we use skewering in chess.
Skewering always looks for major enemy pieces to victimize. But our goal is not to capture them but to just use them to capture lesser ranking pieces. We look for instances when a major piece is in front a minor piece, and they're in a straight line vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The farther they are from each other the better. We check the enemy major piece with our supported piece. When the major piece evades, it exposes the minor piece behind it for easy capturing.
For instance, the enemy queen stands in front of its rook horizontally facing our rook supported by a pawn. The queen is under check here. It may opt to capture our rook but would be countered by our pawn; the enemy is unlikely to agree with this. And neither would the enemy let the queen be taken without a fight, or at least a good escape. Thus, the option is to flee and leave the rook open for capture. We used the enemy's strength against itself.
Skewering in chess may also be aimed at the queen by using the king. We check the king when the queen is behind it and when the king dodges our line of fire the queen is hit instead. We can also target lesser pieces this way.
For instance, we aim at the knight or bishop by checking the rook. We may use our bishop if the enemy rook and knight or bishop is in a diagonal line and the lesser piece is behind the greater one. Of course, the enemy will opt for saving the rook and let us take the knight.
Skewering can be countered by blocking the path of the check with a lesser and supported ally piece. We may also capture the checking piece with an available piece we have which the enemy overlooked. If the checked piece is near the piece to be skewered, we may simply get out of the firing line and stay close to the piece to be skewered for countering the capture.
Skewering in chess is a good way of out-numbering the enemy through skewered captures. With this tactic remember to have the higher piece in front the lower piece.
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