Greetings everyone, welcome to my new blog. Today, I will share with you my best tactic in my chess games. These games were from April 2023 when I was around 500 elo up until now as I'm above 1000. The way that I can visualize and see these types of tactics is because I play a LOT of puzzles and if you want to improve I highly encourage you to do so. Let's check the games together!
The first game that I will show you is when I was 500 and at that time I didn't play that much. I wanted to learn an opening trap which would let me be in a winning position. So I did. I learned Englund Gambit in which you sacrifice multiple pieces so that you can win your opponents Queen. This also happens to be my first brilliant move!
And here's the full game if you want to check it out:
The next game that I will show you happened when I was 600 and did this really cool sacrifice in the middle game. After a couple of trades, I realized that the knight on f6 was pinned so I decided to take the pawn and attack it. After thinking a little bit, I came to the conclusion that his queen needs to move out if the pin in which I would take the knight with the bishop, he would capture it with his bishop and I would try to do a fork on his king and queen.
And here's the full game if you want to check it out:
After a couple of weeks, I got 700 elo and continued to play better every single day. I started to watch chess instructive videos and I learned about the Greek Gift, a famous sacrifice. This is when you sacrifice a bishop on h7 and deliver a checkmate with your knight and queen.
And here's the full game if you want to check it out:
After 2 months I reached 800 elo. I didn't play that much but then I started playing more and I got this brilliant sacrifice. What this does is it clears the path for my bishop to go to e6 where I can pin black's queen to the king.
Here's the tactic behind this move:
And here's the full game if you want to check it out:
I started to do a lot of puzzles and I found it to be really fun to learn different ideas and tactics. After doing a lot of them I reached 2400 on puzzles. As I was improving and doing more puzzles, I started to pick up more tactics from puzzles and implement them in my games. They really helped me to gain more elo and I reached 900 in a few weeks. The game that I will show you made me proud of myself because I did my best tactic with 2 brilliant sacrifices to win the game.
In this position (you can see it below) I realized that by luring Black's queen on d4 it would be on the same diagonal with mine so I would just have to check their king with my knight and I would win a queen. But the problem was that there was a pawn on d3 and it became clear to me. His rook is on the same file and by luring it to d3 their queen would be undefended. You can check the tactic and the full game down below.
In the end, I just want to say one thing. I'm really proud of my chess abilities and I look forward to being a better chess player every single day.
Thank you so much for reading this and I hope you improve as well, whatever it may be. See you in my new chess adventure!
