What kind of sacrifice do you prefer?

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Avatar of Armalando06

Do you prefer positional or tactical sacrifices? For who doesn't know, sham (tactical) sacrifices are also divided into:

  • deflection sacrifices, when the aim is to distract one of the opponent's pieces from a square where it is performing a particular duty.
  • destruction sacrifices, when a piece is sacrificed in order to knock away a materially inferior (but tactically more crucial) piece so that the sacrificing player can gain control over the squares the taken chessman controlled.
  • magnet sacrifices (or decoys), which are similar to a deflection sacrifice, but the motivation behind a magnet sacrifice is to pull an opponent's piece to a tactically poor square, rather than pulling it away from a crucial square.
  • clearance sacrifices, often similar to a discovered attack: the sacrificing player aims to vacate the square the sacrificed piece stood on, either to open up lines for his own pieces, or to put another, more useful piece on the same square.
  • tempo sacrifices, when the sacrificing player abstains from spending time to prevent the opponent from winning material because the time saved can be used for something even more beneficial, for example pursuing an attack on the king or guiding a passed pawn towards promotion.
  • suicide sacrifices, when the sacrificing player aims to rid themselves of the remaining pieces capable of performing legal moves, and thereby obtain a stalemate and a draw from a poor position.

p.s.: I copied this from Wikipedia beacuse I couldn't give definitions, if you need some examples I can send them

Avatar of Chuck639

I enjoy playing the Catalan, Grunfeld and Dragon to find myself using the discovery attack, tempo sacrifice, double attack and positional sacrifice frequently. Perhaps it’s also a theme and understanding in those lines as well.