In fact, Leela in her evaluations doesn’t assign any value any material. All she cares about is if a position is winning or not so she doesn’t even think about points. It’s a good lesson for all chess players to learn.
Sacrificing Pieces For Positions
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Jan 18, 2021
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The value of anything depends on its placement. A rook on a8 is of little value if you’re being checkmated on the kingside. In one somewhat famous game Leela Chess Zero, one of the top two engines in the world, sacrificed a bishop on move 8 to keep a pawn. That pawn on d6 stifled all of black’s development on the queenside, and helped keep essentially 17 points worth of material out of the game until it was too late for Stockfish.
In fact, Leela in her evaluations doesn’t assign any value any material. All she cares about is if a position is winning or not so she doesn’t even think about points. It’s a good lesson for all chess players to learn.
In fact, Leela in her evaluations doesn’t assign any value any material. All she cares about is if a position is winning or not so she doesn’t even think about points. It’s a good lesson for all chess players to learn.
Jan 18, 2021
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What’s the point of sacrificing pieces for position , if can’t maintain that position through lack of pieces ! 🤷♂️........just saying .
Jan 18, 2021
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Woolly. Say you two pieces of kibble. They aren’t worth very much. Say there is a mouse that’s worth much more, so you put one of your pieces of kibble in front of a mouse hole. The mouse comes out and eats it, but you pounce on it and have a tasty mouse!
It’s kinda like that.
It’s kinda like that.
Jan 18, 2021
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ill sack a bishop to open a castled queen some times " the greek gift" iv played the nahkamonson gambit in a game where i mated with a queen an rook left on the board an saked everything else. other guy was up like 12+ but had no peices off his first two ranks due to unlimited checks.
Jan 18, 2021
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Jeez you learn something new every day ! .....OK thanks for the tip 👍......next time I go on a mouse hunting safari, I’ll make sure I’ve got some kibble with me ✌️😹
Jan 18, 2021
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NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
Woolly. Say you two pieces of kibble. They aren’t worth very much. Say there is a mouse that’s worth much more, so you put one of your pieces of kibble in front of a mouse hole. The mouse comes out and eats it, but you pounce on it and have a tasty mouse!
It’s kinda like that.
It’s kinda like that.
Brilliant!
In my last game I won by sacrificing my bishop. I was playing white and I sacrificed my white square bishop which would be my fourth strongest piece, what with the queen being the strongest piece, the two rooks being the 2nd and 3rd strongest pieces and the white square bishop being the 4th strongest piece if you're playing white. So anyway, if anybody wants to check out my last game at the time of this post, you will see that I sacrifice my white square bishop and then in the next few moves Im able to get checkmate. So sacrificing pieces, even very strong pieces, can be good if it gets you in a good position, especially if it gets you in a position where you can win.