Chapter 16: Double Rook Sacrifice
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content.
It takes a lot of confidence to see the opportunity or create the opportunity of such an expensive sacrifices as two rooks. Here are some examples analyzed on YouTube:
- Absolutely Insane Double Rook Sacrifice By Mikhail Tal
- Kasparov’s Double-Rook Sacrifice vs Topalov
- The First Recorded Example Of A Double Rook Sacrifice
Unlike most sacrifices of active moves made to expose the enemy king, here the rooks are given up in a passive manner. The opponent is allowed to capture one rook and then the other - with the rooks often being still on their original starting squares. The aim of a Double Rook Sacrifice is to misplace the enemy queen. After capturing the second rook, the queen is usually far from the main area of activity, and unable to assist in the defense of the king. The sacrifice of either one or two rooks is a huge price to pay and the attacker needs to ensure that:
- the mating attack will definitely succeed after both rooks are taken; and
- the opponent cannot capture just one rook and safely decline the second.
Example Patterns for the Double Rook Sacrifice
68) By sacrificing one 
the 
may have a second, but now that she has been deflected, she cannot stop a bishop-supported #.
prevents Boden's Mate. But, taking 
to set up a double rook sacrifice sets up a two-bishop mate after the further sacrifice of . sacrifice sets up a fork by which leads to gobbling up 's until she is tucked away on h1, powerless to protect the vulnerable 
.Chapter 17: Double Bishop Sacrifice | Chapter 15: Other Queenside Mates
