a question about sacrifices and sacrifice showcase

Try to solve this one taken from my Blog:

Incredible razor sharp games, giving your opponents so many chances to go wrong, a bit like Topalov or Tal..

Here's my best game involving sacrifices. Two knights sacrificed! My opponent  makes an error in moving his b-pawn, leading to mate in 4; this is annotated in the game.

tarikhk, in your latest game post, what happens if your opponent plays 10. ... d5 instead of 10. ... gxh6. Now the queen defends f7. So if you play 11. Bxd5 gxh6 it looks like black is coming out ahead. So maybe you have to play 11. Bxg7 Rg8, but you still have both bishops hanging.

Yes, that would have completely ruined my plan, I missed that. I'll be more careful. A lot of the time when I see a potential sacrifice plan , I stop doing the variations in my head and simply say to myself "f*** it, throw caution to the wind, it's more fun that way". Plus, there is the unnerving, surprising element in a sacrifice that, as someone mentioned earlier, makes your opponent more likely to make mistakes. Probably shouldn't rely on that, though.

to everyone else, I can't get enough of these sacrifice combos. Atomic; I've done that puzzle six or seven times already. Gonnosuke; Amazingly accurate games, I bow down in admiration. Steevemartuns; I would have completely missed that, must have been so satisfying.

What are you talking about? It's one of my old games, not a documented puzzle:

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The ability to recover from sacrifices or to know when they'll work best for you is a lot like balance and centrifugal force.  It's like in gym class when you stand a baseball bat up, put your forehead down on it, and spin yourself around in a circle a few times real fast, then try to run around the bases as fast as you can.  If you only spun around a couple times, there's not that much pressure on you because you're not that dizzy, but if you put the opponent under lots of pressure first before you hit him with the sacrifice, then it's like he was forced to spin around the bat 20 times----there's much less chance he'll be able to cover all his bases once you mess up the status quo with a sacrifice.  He'll wander off the baseline and fall down, because you put his position under sufficient strain so that it couldn't take any more, and then your sacrifice was the "more."  

Well that's the ideal time to sacrifice anyway.^^  Often times it also represents throwing a tantrum on the board when you sense that you're lost and might as well see if you can disrupt the sequence of events you fear is becoming inevitable.  

no, atomic, you misread, or i put it badly( damn internet). I enjoyed that combination so much, that I've done it( on this page only, today)about six or seven times.

Ahh.. Ok sorry I misunderstood.

thank you ........

This game is still going on, so I am not soliciting advice or comments on what to do next, but it is a good demonstration of a sacrifice.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=17864982

As you'll see I sacked my Q for a pawn, and I thought I was a lot better off than I ended up being, as I missed him playing Qxh2. For some reason I thought he only had Kh1 and Kf1 as options.

nice queen sac, worked out ok. A lesser opponent might have played kf1 or kh1, which would have been checkmate either way , seeing their own queen as a lofty advantage; position looks about equal now. Good luck.

here's a game where I made a passive sacrifice to make some attacking chances and by opening a file.

this is quickly becoming a showcase for my games etc. Please, more contributions please, I wanna see more sacs. here's another one in puzzle form from a game of mine;

Tarikh, why is your rating only 1264, you should have a much higher rating, maybe a 1450 or something. Loved those sacs from everyone

nice thnx

here's a game with a lot of unsound sacrifices and some very sloppy play from me that I still managed to win. Basically, I was tired to f--- and threw caution to the wind for a little enjoyment. I remember Andrew Martin saying that the sicilian was a race for time, and that Bobby Fischer quote about the sicilian dragon and.... well, you see for yourself.

p.s. it was much more fun to play than analyse. That'll probably come through in the analysis.

Hiarcs agrees with it, actually. Maybe it was pretty deep.

A game I played some time ago on another site

And a really crazy Facebook game I posted recently on a forum topic here (I tried to add annotations on that post's PGN but it wouldn't work, twice in a row - guess I'll try again soon) - where I sacced a rook on the fourth (!) move but proved to be unsound. I would still like to hear from you guys what I should have played instead (my rating is so low because I've only played two games and I lost them both!