The Game where White Sacrificed Everything

Here, White sacrifices all of his pieces except for a Knight and wins. Black resigns in move 21 since the required Rxe8 would have allowed White to move his Knight to f7 and checkmate him.

The man who was White in this game was Henry Ernest Atkins. He lived from August 20, 1872 up until January 31, 1955. Atkins was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven attempts. He won every year from 1905 to 1911, and again in 1924 and 1925. A schoolmaster, Atkins treated chess as a hobby, devoting relatively little time to it and playing in only a handful of international tournaments. In my humble opinion, he was an extremely gifted player who would likely have become one of the world's leading players had he pursued the game more single-mindedly. FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the International Master title in 1950 in recognition of his past achievements.