What is a sacrifice?
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I guess it’s a sacrifice
Los_Tenyos_Krowo wrote:
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Nov 28, 2018
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Hawksteinman wrote:
Los_Tenyos_Krowo wrote:
Shut the fuck up.
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Was I addressing u...
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Nov 28, 2018
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#6
A sacrifice means you lose X on purpose to gain Y (something better). If you don't gain anything back, it'd be a blunder or an unsound sacrifice. The example in the OP is definitely a sacrifice, albeit a simple one - you lose the Q to gain a checkmate.
Nov 28, 2018
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#7
A sacrifice is when you give up a piece of your position to better another part of your position. In this case, you are giving up material for mate so, yes, it’s a sacrifice.
Nov 28, 2018
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#8
I wouldn't call the OP mate a sacrifice, I'd just call it a forced mate.
But it doesn't really matter what we call it. You can call it a sacrifice.
Nov 28, 2018
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#9
The line between a sac and a pseudo-sac is hard to draw. Is it only a sacrifice if it's unsound? That seems rather restrictive. In common usage, it's a pseudo-sac if there is an immediate and obvious tactical follow-up, and called a sacrifice if the follow-up is harder to find.
Here is Troinov vs Popov, for example. Even though the win is forced and amenable to calculation, I would still call this a sacrifice, not a pseudo-sac.
Nov 28, 2018
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#10
Yeah, to me it depends on how hard the followup is to find.
Also on the evaluation. If it's just equal after the sacrifice, I'm more likely to think of it as a sacrifice. If it's just bad, then a blunder, if it's immediately winning then I'd think of it as a tactic or combination.
I understand that sacrifice means trading down or giving up material without taking any material in return.
However in this position -