[Puzzle Road] No choice, I need to sacrifice! (P16)

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Material advantage or no, the chess game is full of surprises and a chess player does need to know how to make them happen. The sacrifices are a very good way to surprise the opponent and if you find a good one, which helps you to win material or to checkmate, don’t hesitate: do it!

Calculate the variants, imagine the future position, the advantages your opponent could win and all the possible move (the illogical moves too) to know how to continue the game after having sacrificed! It’s not always the case, that a sacrifice gives you the possibility to win at the next move!

16/ No choice, I need to sacrifice! (Topic: sacrifice)

First move: Knight e6 + (!!)

Yeah! We force the f-pawn to liberate the f-column to advance our pawn. Our pawn needs then 2 moves to come o his promotion-square: this means, we need to force the king to go away from this f8-square!

Second move: Rook x d7 (!!)

The knight is a problem too. But you just need to take it! Don’t forget that your objective is to make a queen!

Third move: Rook x c8!

Black needs to take back with the king, which does permit us now to advance our pawn and to make a queen any problems!

Thanks for reading, have a nice day!
@Kyu13

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