Trickiest and Most Effective Sacrifices

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Greetings, all! I'm overall more of an aggressive chess player so I was wondering what sacrifices you think are good, and maybe tricky and hopefully effective. I personally like the Greek Gift but I was wondering what others are out there. Also, if you want to list some of your favorite traps rather than sacrifices, that's fine. Thanks, all!

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I love the Halosar Trap! Very tricky.

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There are a lot of typical sacrifices... but AFAIK none that are named (liked the Greek Gift).

Here are two standard ones that come to mind.

 

In e4 e5 structure.
The key attacker is the knight on f5, which is often a dangerous piece.
Black has moved his pawn to h6.

 

In isolated queen pawn structures.
Knight on e5 is often a key attacker.
Black has moved in a way that makes his light squares weak.

 

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I also personally like the "Noah's Ark Trap", which goes like this:

 
Black ended up capturing white's bishop... which is pretty good for an opening...

 

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I also found this trap for white in the Ruy Lopez and I liked it a lot.

 

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I don't know the name of it...

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The Kieninger trap. From the Budapest gambit

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Elephant trap is non-obvious and the moves are strong.

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I love the queen sacrificing, légal trap to! mate at first sight wink.png

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Yep, the Elephant Trap is strong. Goes like this:

Pretty solid.

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There's also the Würzburger Trap from the Vienna Gambit which is pretty good. White ends up with a position that will soon be a bishop ahead.