Amazing Sacrifices for a Big Win

This is the first game on Chess.com that I am proud of. I sacrifice two knights for what looks like nothing but I had an idea....

This is an incredible game. I'm ranked higher on this site and I wish I could play with that kind of sacrificial forsight. Well done!

Thank you very much! The Nf5 trick I learned from a Capablanca game I studied. In the King's Indian where Black tries to play h6 and Kh7 then Nf5 shows up as a really nice tactic that allows you to blow open positions. There was a defense there but it was not obvious what was going on I suppose.

Again, thank you very much. Put the game into Fritz and watch what it says. It's pretty funny how it changes it's mind a few moves in.

Well done!  Thanks for posting, and the interesting commentary. 

Rob- Why do you consider '7  ... c5' a "weak" move?

I have never lost a rated game against 7 ... c5 OTB. It takes away squares that I feel are crucial for Blacks Knights to use. The idea behind c5 in the Kings Indian is to try and prevent the minority attack on the queenside, which is a typical idea for White. I feel that this works better if I play Nf3 and not f3. In the Saemisch it is more important for a Knight to try and control or occupy c5 and for black to play f5 as soon and as effectively as possible. Without that, Black has too little space and not enough counter play IMHO.  Notice that I never had to castle in this game because no lines were opened up. Against the Saemisch, if play can play f5 and open the f file he can prove the backward f pawn to be a liability. Thats my two cents about it anyway.

I'd like to add my $.02 that c5 just really seems to weaken the pawn structure IMO, giving a weak backward pawn at d6 as the base of both chains. This isn't so easy to exploit immediately, but in a closed game like this, it seems to be very anti-positional to me (but note that I very rarely play closed positions like this)

Wow... I loved that game! You should bring it to the attention of whomever selects the game of the day. Everyone should see it!

RobK and WanderingW - Thanks for your responses.  I feel my brain growing...  :)

I don't know the King's Indian too well, and I don't have Fritz, but Rybka increased the advantage after 7...c5 for white, if only a little. The knight's tour decreased a pawn-or-so advantage to an even game by 18. Nh3, but 19. Ng5+ doesn't freak it out at all. 20. Nf5 gives roughly a 2-pawn disadvantage for white. Finally, after 23. g6, the advantage flips back to white, and increased to 10 points by move 31. Overall, the analysis is generally positive, but I wonder if black could have reversed the game? Who knows.

sweetness, total sweetness.  i hate when i make a move that im REALLY proud of (or series of moves) then the computer tells me im a moron and i made a blunder...but in game play i end up winning...i guess 1700-1900's dont defend as well as computers rated 2500...anyway, entertaining, informative and original.  good work

Thanks for the awesome comments guys! Black did have better defenses but it takes a very long search with Fritz for it to realize that the Knights aren't free. In fact the computer engines used to analyze games on this site also said that the Knights were free but they aren't! Once both of my Knights were taken, White has the advantage and I don't think Black has an adequate defense. The blunder by black is taking the second Knight I beleive. If after ...gxf5 gxf5 and then ...Ne8 or Re8 then black seems to defend by keeping the h file closed, but I still get some play on the g file. I'm not sure and I haven't had time to let the computer do a long search on those ideas.

Overall I am very happy with how this game went. It is probably one of the most complicated piece sacrifice ideas that I've ever come up with.  I think it really could take a computer not to take those two Knights and see why you couldn't. Honestly they were the first moves I thought of in that situation and I made that little Knight tour just to play them. I don't know if I would have the balls to play them OTB in a rated game but maybe someday. 

If anybody else has better offensive or defensive ideas for me thatd be awesome.

Awesome game