The Sacrifice

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23rd September 2008, 08:32pm
#1
by TheOmerta
The Place with the most Prisons is the United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 12
I am posting this only to show that position is
sometimes better than holding on to a piece
that will be deadlocked.
My knight works to clear a path
Sacrifice in move 8
(also..I think my opponent played perfect)

23rd September 2008, 09:05pm
#2
by vijaykulkarni
Pune India
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 8188

Seems Ur opponent did not concentrate on initial development and cramped himself too much.. I felt he could have recovered by playing more accurately.. Keep posting.. I enjoyed the review

24th September 2008, 11:00am
#3
by TheOmerta
The Place with the most Prisons is the United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 12
MBickley wrote:

No, sacrificing to unlock a position is completely wrong.


Why? I won the game.

So it is not "completely wrong", is it?

24th September 2008, 11:15am
#4
by Thanatos19
Pennsylvania United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 233

"Sacrificing to unlock a position is completely wrong?" I think every Grandmaster would entirely disagree with you. Kasparov did this many times, and he was arguably the best chess master ever.

24th September 2008, 07:51pm
#5
by vijaykulkarni
Pune India
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 8188

Sacrificing itself is not wrong.. but Na3 took the N in to wrong position and then Black advanced the c pawn to c4 instead of cxd4.. so it created a sort of position for white to sac N.. Follow up by black was not as solid as it should have been.. many weak moves thereafter..

24th September 2008, 08:14pm
#6
by Magryx
Selangor Malaysia
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 49

Sacrificing to open a position isn't wrong, as long as once the position is open ,  Ur opponent doesn't have a development lead!

 

And another thing, if u wanted to open the position, why did u close it with c5 anyway?

24th September 2008, 08:22pm
#7
by TheOmerta
The Place with the most Prisons is the United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 12
Magryx wrote:

 

And another thing, if u wanted to open the position, why did u close it with c5 anyway?


The pawn in move 4 to C5?  This did open my position. I use my bishops alot, sacrifice the knights

 

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