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Setting up a skewer: capture
In this lesson, you will learn how to set up a skewer by means of capturing. After an intelligent capture, a skewer wins material.
Take a look at the example.
What do you have to do?
Capture a piece from the opponent, which forces two pieces on the same line (file, rank of diagonal).Then win material with a skewer.
The black rook and bishop are on the same row, but white cannot take immediate advantage of this. By capturing the rook first, a new piece appears on d5: 1.Rxd5! Kxd5. Now the king is a lot easier to attack. With 2.Re5+, a skewer, white wins a bishop: 2...Kd6 3.Rxa5.
