Considering a spin-1/2 chain, we suppose that the entanglement passes from a given pair of particles to another one, thus establishing the relay transfer of entanglement along the chain.Therefore, we introduce the relay entanglement as a sum of all pairwise entanglements in a spin chain. For more detailed studying the effects of remote pairwise entanglements, we use the partial sums collecting entanglements between the spins separated by up to a certain number of nodes.The problem of entangled cluster formation is considered, and the geometric mean entanglement is introduced as a characteristics of quantum correlations in a cluster. Generally, the life-time of a cluster decreases with an increase in its size. PACS numbers: