Pulling A Rabbit Out Of A Hat

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KnightRapture

Sometimes I'll play like an attacking maniac. I sacrificed the pawns on the kingside, then a knight so I could attack the enemy queen with tempo. I do things like this often to keep games a bit more interesting, forcing players to come out of book. Not a perfect game by far from my side, with some blunders, but a really exciting one. I calculated I would get a queen 11 moves deep in the endgame. I was studying a lot of Tal games today (again) including his losses. Some online youtube socialites who love to annotate the games and act general after the war, often say, "This is a typical Tal game, sacrificing lots of pieces, solidly or not." Really such a statement couldn't be further from the truth... yes he had many games that sacrificed material, but there's an equal share of games that he didn't. In fact, I noticed many of the games he lost, made him look like an ordinary player. Tal said, more times than not he'd play like a maniac so that he could hear the roar of the audience, admitting he loved their reactions. Anyway, enough of the chit chat on Tal, here's my wild game I complicated for fun. It would be fair to say, I prefer open positions. I find it easier to see tactics than in closed ones.

 

KnightRapture

Curtosy of my opponent since I used up my analysis on a game, it showed I played it with 91% accuracy to boot.