Your best or most beautiful sacrifice

"Chess is not about how much pieces you have, it's about how many ACTIVE pieces you have" : That's completely true !

And guguloiul said : "the soul of chess is the enemy king ,because you can hunt him like CRAZY!"

Oops, sorry about that. I'll fix it.

That's not my best sacrifice, but surely the most spectacular. I really don't like difficoult sacrifice (I mean sacrifice that doesn't give an immediate vantage) cause It's always impossible to calculate all of the positions, and if you forget to analyse something, can be dangerous. My sparring always says "Why give pieces to your opponent? It's not his birthday." Surely true.

I've created, or at least come across them on my own, opening lines. Here's one that could be called a "sacrifice": 

this is theory

Just a game that I played today.It might not be very spectacular,because it's not really the type of sacrifice where you throw away a piece and in 3 moves you win the game.It's actually a very dubious sacrifice and with correct play,my opponent could've easily won.

This is a lovely game

Gosh, I've had a few good ones, I'm on the verge of going through all my chess.com games and finding the best one (would be over 500 of them) but one that's always stood out to me was the following game.

For some reason I really liked your sacrifice !

Why, thank you!

Unfortunately the game is not recorded since it was just a casual game, but a few days ago I beat a 1700 OTB with a 3-move mate combination that started with a knight sac. I was very proud of this victory :) and there were no witnesses, currently there are so few players at our club evenings, everyone seems to be on holiday, no one will believe me ;)

thanks, there was one more that I put in there. WIll have to do it some other time. Great games everyone.

It's a sacrifice with long term compensation in my oppinion.

I actually consider this the greatest game I have ever played (in my limited experience!). 6. ...h6 gave me the opportunity to attack the black king with my light-square bishop, and then 7. ..Bd4 allowed my the opportunity to get the opposing bishop out of the way and complete the checkmate, via a sacrifice of a knight, and offering of a free rook.

AnthonyCG: A discovered checkmate, I love those!

Two of my greatest sacrifices (easily top 5, perhaps even top 3) were OTB, against friends. I think the one which was my greatest was against my brother: Funny story, he knows the rules of chess and that's it. I was already around 1300, but he played a somewhat legitimate opening and the first part of our middlegame was surprisingly positional, not something you'd see out of someone who never studies the game. I slowly garnerned a better position and made an excellent knight sac to set up a discovered attack on the king, winning his queen. Poor guy never saw it coming, neither did my dad who was helping him and was a little more knowledgable.

Another one came from a game against a friend where I botched the opening and dropped a knight. I later sacked a Rook to put the opponent's king in position for a discovered attack which, again, won me my opponent's queen, and the game. You should have seen his face when I threw the sacrifice. Unfortunately for him, accepting the sac was the best thing he could do.

Played this game at the Irish Junior Championship tournament and was extatic that it was sound, and nearly won me the game, but I couldnt manage to keep the attack going and it ended up a draw.

It was an interesting game ! Good sacrifice