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I learned to play chess a long time ago, but have only started playing competitive chess for about three years. I have a USCF membership and I've done about 30 tournaments so far.
On Saturdays I play chess at the Newtown Chess Club. In the 2011 Club Championships I got 2nd place. In the Team Championships I finished 1st for board three with a score of 3.5/4. We have a chess club profile on chess.com and a group for all the members. You can also check out our facebook page if you want.
One time my friend jrcolonial98 (also on this site) and I were playing a blitz game, and we had a cool idea for a knight sac in the King's Indian. White didn't defend properly and was quickly crushed. Black does get a lot of compensation for the knight, but Fritz10 still claims white is better. Later we did some research, and we found out that Gligoric and Tal also used similar knight sacs on f4, though not in the exact same position as ours. We are calling our variation the "Flying Ninja Attack".
The Flying Ninja Attack:
We haven't gone very far with the concrete analysis, but just looking at the position after the accepted variation (gxf4 exf4), it seems that black has significant compensation:
-black has an active dark-squared bishop on the long diagonal, further helping to tangle up white's queenside and ready to go Be5 or Bd4(+) in many variations. Be5 is generally used to attack h2 and to block the e-file, trying to fight against white's superior center control
-black has a far advanced pawn storm on the kingside, while white may have to worry about his king before being able to get any queenside play
-black has a powerful knight on g6 that can go to h4, e5, or maybe even f4 (again!) later on
-black's queen is ready to come into h4 creating threats of g5-g4-g3 and Bd4
-black's light-squared bishop has a nice diagonal and may be able to exploit the weak light squares around white's king
-black may have ideas of playing Rf8-f6-h6 to attack white's king; this idea is especially strong if white tries to play Qh5 to defend his king
-black's queen rook may not be active, but at least it has an open file in this variation and does not even have to worry about being taken by Nb5-c7-a8, which what usually happens in the King's Indian. Again, because white needs to defend first and black has more active pieces
-black's king is safer than white's - it sits behind a wall of pawns and pieces
All this sounds good, but of course it needs at least some concrete variations to back it up. The position is pretty unclear, but I think black should have almost enough for the piece.