Destructive rook sacrifice on h3

Submitted by rollingpawns on Wed, 10/01/2008 at 3:10pm.

Destructive sacrifice - "sacrificing material to destroy the pawn cover or other protection around the enemy king. Usually a point of no return" (dictionary).

Many of us are familiar with the bishop sacrifices - Bxh2/h7/h3/h6/... etc. Rook sacrifice is a bit less common, maybe because it takes time and effort to get the rook into the striking position.

The first example is from my online game. My time was running out, and after I made move Qd6-e6, I had 7 seconds left. Luckily for me, my opponent didn't suspect anything and played c4-c5.

After Rxh3+, gxh3, Qxh3# I still had a few seconds.

Second, more complicated example is also from my online game. Rxh3+ with mate in 8 - can you calculate it?

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by figrock - 6 months ago
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Thanx..!

by OOPIT - 13 months ago
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Nice

by Mohamed010 - 13 months ago
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co0oL

by 90sharmaankit - 13 months ago
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good one!!!!!!!!!

by rollingpawns - 13 months ago
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ShahidAnwer - good question. I think, the more you play, the better you see tactics, you have to calculate it and that's how you improve. Also you do tactical exersises, now it's very popular, you can find a lot on the Web.

chawil - thanks

by ShahidAnwer - 13 months ago
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Nice lesson but you have to be sure that sacrifice will work before you do that in an end game like this. How can one improve upon the number of moves it can see ahead?