Scintillating Skewers: Super Secret Stuff

Good morning-afternoon!  Today is another skewer day.  We will x-ray through to the tasty piece we want.  It is your job to capture stuff in chess.  Can you do it?  Skewers are tactics that can happen at any point in the game.  A skewer is also known as a shish kabob.

Just get three pieces in the same straight line.

Super Secret Stuff Quiz!

There will be ten questions.  If you get them all right, you are a scintillating student.  Straight smart!

1.)  This is an x-ray attack, you will look for a hanging piece and a checkmate square behind it.

What kind of checkmate did you create?

 2.)  Attack someone on the wrong side of the board.  Behind that piece is a vulnerable square...

3.) Here you will skewer through his majesty to attack a loose piece.  (A piece that is already attacked once.)

 4.) Capture the queen or checkmate in two moves.

What is the name of this checkmate?

5.)  Black to move and win the exchange (that means you get a rook and you lose only a minor bishop or knight).

6.)  What does the word "scintillating" mean?  (It's in this video if you forgot.)

7.)  White to move.  Easy.

8.)  Lure the king away.  Then skewer him to his lady.

9.)  What is the opposite of a skewer? 

10.) What are the only pieces that can create a skewer and why?

("Please don't eat me!")

Answers and Results:

1. Rd3!  Back rank mate.

2. Rh1!

3. Qh5+

4. Rf1.  Back rank mate.

5. Bb5!  This looks like a pin, but it's called a skewer.

6. Shiny and impressive! 

7. Qf1+

8. Ne5+ then Qg8super check

9. Pin.

10. Queens, rooks, and bishops because they are long-range pieces.