My funniest game: Suicidal Sacrifice
When great players sacrifice pieces, most of the time something beautiful is coming in six, seven, ten moves. They do that with something in their minds: a powerful attacking line, a nice value capture, and a winning position. If you watch very carefully, most of those sacrificial plays are not obvious (and that, as a fact, IS obvious - would those plays be easy to spot, same-level opponents wouldn't fall for them. Very nice paragraph here with no information at all. Good writing).
But that's talking about great players, not insanely great. About me, however, sacrificial plays are more than just to crack enemy lines in a brilliant move. For me, sacrificial is merely adjusting the handicap of my galaxy brain and the lesser mortals with something as high as 900 rating, a better use of this incredible Excalibur called "pre-moving", a way to forever humiliate my enemies who will never forget this outstanding chess lesson.
Seriously talking, paying attention to all the variables during a game takes time and effort. I'm a very regular newbie in that sense (and... ern... all the others), hanging pieces more often than not, and today I had a very special game where, just like every time, I started to pay attention to the wonderful little bug that felt inside my ears and bled my brain to death, therefore couldn't keep my attention up with the game.
Spoilers: That's literally called "being bad at Chess"
However, after hanging at least 2 major pieces and severely behind, I saw ONE move. A move that would bring the eternal glory of winning this world cup's final. A move that would change forever the course of Chess, make it deviate from just dragging the pieces. An immortal move. It's nice to say that I found that move in less than a second, having all planned around, but that, of course, would be a lie.
Take a quick peek at my horrible board state in the 9th move. I stared the board for a while, maybe 5 seconds, and just when I was about to resign (not realizing that a3 is a mistake, obviously), it all came to my mind. How do I win this game? By attacking my opponents soul, crushing them, as Yugi Muto would accidentally kill Pegasus if he tried hard enough. It became very clear to me that I had only one hope: That Queen was threatening a seriously dangerous move. But the pawn on g2 would make me lose at least a piece, if not the game right away. So I had to MOVE THAT PAWN. That's how I usually attack: "Well is that piece blocking my attack? How do I move it from there? How do I KILL it? Do I need to sacrifice my Queen just in order to have a decent attack (that won't end the game)? SUPER I'M INTO IT". So I found the absolutely only good move. A move that would give me the win.
I'm furiously SHOCKED that Chess.com didn't make that move an exclamation. I mean, Chess isn't all about Chess sometimes AMIRITE? This is gravely biased: Even the computer didn't understand my SOCIAL SKILLS here. The thought process was simple: "This game is lost. But... If he falls for it, I will win."
Now you guys have to understand something very noticeable in us, players with less than 1000 ELO. We don't plan ahead. We simply don't care. Not only that, but we're deeply focused in obtaining material and controlling the center, trying to apply the very basics of chess - something more than that can be incredibly difficult. I know that. I've fallen for that. If you have an opportunity to win material right away, it's always better to do so, because otherwise your opponent is thinking in a way to kill you (when you start to actually get good at the game, I've been told that the situations are the opposite). And honestly that's correct most of the time. That's why my opponent didn't even blink before deciding his next move.
He took the bishop.
Everything else is history.
