What do you think? Are Sacrifices and Swaps usefull?

Today I am going to be posting a blog about what you think about sacrifices and swaps. 

First we will look at sacrifices....

A good sacrifice comes once it has been thought through possibly 6 or 7 moves Deep into the Game. 

Not common with children or amateur's.

Still though there is a chance that your opponent will see through it.

Lets have a look at a famous sacrifice!

Number 1 . - The peruvian immortal: Estabaan Canal vs NN

Many claim that this is the best sacrifice in chess history!

Now, any reasonable chess player would develop their light-squared bishop and castle. Especially considering that the black bishop and queen are eyeing down the white knight on c3.

And that's what Estebaan did. He played: 9. Be2 Nd7. Leading to a position like this.
 

Again, it's tempting to castle. But here, Estebaan wanted to set up a trap. And hoped that NN would fall for it. and NN did fall for it!! Watch what happens next:

10. a3 0-0-0

which looks like this

An untrained eye that is unable to see 5-6 moves ahead would not be able to see the following spectacular combination!

White played: 11. axb4!!

I went a few moves further into the combination.

And now after sacrificing 2 rooks white [ Estebaan ] sacrificed his queen!!

Please comment below on how you would rate that sacrifice checkmate!

White - Estebaan 

Black - NN

Swaps 

Many players of chess will prefer swap to sacrifice [ please comment your opinion below ] yet sometimes a sacrifice is a more convincing way to lead to a checkmate or say a way to win a piece in a good position. 

But swaps may be convincing still!

There may not be to many famous games with swaps in chess and sadly I could not find one so I thought I would share my opinion as well as some times on when to swap in a game.

First I will give out a few things to remember when doing swaps. 

When you have lots of space in the opening do not swap!

When you have less space in the opening swap!

When up in material exchange pieces such as knights, rooks, queens and bishops!

When down in material exchange pawns!

Should I do this opening swap?

I hope you liked this blog!