[Puzzle Road] Sacrifice like a Grandmaster! (P22)

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Today’s puzzle is a beautiful sacrifice to win material! You are surely a future (or maybe already actual) great chess player if you see this one in the first second you watch this puzzle! The position didn’t come in the game I played, because it was only a possible variant, and I blundered a bit the moves I played… (I still drew with a second brilliant move!)

In this position, Black has 2 pawns more and played f6 (best move, recommended by Stockfish) The solution to win material is not easy to find and you will need to calculate all the possible variations, the possible moves that your opponent could play. My advice: start with the strangest one, to get in your head something like a schema of the position.

22/ Sacrifice like a Grandmaster! (Topic: sacrifice and X-Ray)

First move: Knight x g5 (!!)

Here, we take the g5-pawn back with the queen if he takes our Knight. This does give check to the black king and destroys the position of our opponent. With the Knight, we want to play next Knight f7 for the fork. If Black play Rook f8, we have Knight x e6. If Black play Rook e8, we have Knight f7 followed by Knight d6 and win the Bishop.
We will suppose in this puzzle, that Black takes our Knight.

Second move: Queen x g5!

We check the king, which needs to go on the e8 square and does not defend anymore the Bishop, that we attack two times! If we directly take now the Bishop, Black can escape with the king on the f7-square and the two black rooks would be on the same rank, protecting each other.
That means, we need to first take the f7-square, without losing any tempo!

Third move: Queen x g7!

Only possibility to control the f7-square and attack the rook on h8. After this, Black can play Rook f8.

Following moves: Rookxc8, Rookxc8, Rookdxc8 and Queen d8!

Here, we attack two times the bishop which is protected only 1 time by the rook that stands on a8. By taking back the rook on c8 after having taken the bishop on c8, the king cannot move and Black needs to play Queen d8 and to give us too much material!

That’s really a brilliant move!
Have a good day,
Have fun in playing chess,
@Kyu13

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