The ROOOOOOOK and The KNIIIIIIIIGHT

Let me see what I can find recently...

I'm assuming that you're not just interested in opening traps, so here's some longer games that are good.

Here's two relatively recent ones - sorry I can't find more exciting ones it's not all flashy sacrifices! I chose the second one as it shows how even strong players can make mistakes when under pressure.

And this one was interesting - theory gave me a very nice position (mengarini has some tricks!) but an interesting conversion and quite visibly satisfying checkmate.

an under-rated weapon! I find that a lot of the main-line openings that they play at the Super GM level aren't practical for amateurs, when there are hundreds of rarer, trickier, easier to remember and understand openings out there that opponents are less prepared for. The way I see it, if Gary Kasparov himself had so much success with the off-beat Evan's Gambit, then openings like the Ponziani, the King's Gambit, the Mengarini Sicilian can all work wonders for people who aren't generational superstars.

Chess gods cursed me after this post lol I wasn’t sacrificing pieces over the last few days, I was straight hanging them. As a ~2000 level player. Disgusting.