My first successfull exchange sacrifice

Submitted by shadowc on Wed, 04/30/2008 at 8:36am.

This is a game I played against a much stronger player in a chess.com tournament... This is my first cool minded exchange sacrifice that happily went to a win. The game was crazy from the exchange until the end. Feel free to express your thoughts about it.

I have very little time to annotate, but I'll do my best:

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by shadowc - 15 days ago
Buenos Aires Argentina

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by Marc-BlackKnight89 - 46 days ago
Buenos Aires Argentina

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Increible, muy buen juego.

by achilleus - 10 months ago
Montevideo Uruguay

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buen posisionamiento "peonal"

by shadowc - 18 months ago
Buenos Aires Argentina

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We missed a lot of stuff...!

by Loomis - 18 months ago
Durham, NC United States

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Why not 11. ... Bxh4. Don't you win a piece this way?

Maybe 15. ... Bh3 was better. White has to give back the exchange in order to not get checkmated and the f3 pawn will remain weak.

by Phobetor - 18 months ago
Eindhoven Netherlands

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Couldn't white have played 23. Qxd7? It threatens Qxg7# and Kxg1, so you can't save your knight. Also 23. Qxd7 Qxe4+ 24. f3 doesn't work for black, so it seems like white missed a chance for a free piece there...

by Chesser777 - 18 months ago
Belgium

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Qf1+ is better then Qe1+ because of 35...Qe1+ 36.Kg2.

Well, when u got the the opponents king trapped in a corner, and u got a huge material advantage, start looking for mates =)

by shadowc - 18 months ago
Buenos Aires Argentina

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Nice... I actually saw Qe1+, I was quite nervous cause a few moves ago I was drawing... I guess I played for the secure...

by Chesser777 - 18 months ago
Belgium

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35.Qf1+ Rg1

36.Be4#

by shadowc - 18 months ago
Buenos Aires Argentina

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Wow, what a great spanish!! Lovely... Thanks for the comment, let me translate for the other 95% of the members, lol

By the way, yeah, we call it "tablas" only in chess.

"Your sacrifice was well calculated because it destroyed the pawn formation that protected white's king. Your opponent should have concentrated in stopping your d pawn on move 28, that way the game could have ended in a draw. I guess panic took control of your opponent when he realized that it was too late to stopyour pawn. Good game."

by kenytiger - 18 months ago
United States

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Tu sacrificio estuvo bien calculado porque destruyó la formación de peones que protegía el Rey Blanco. Tu oponente debió concentrarse en detener tu peón d en la movida 28, de esa forma la partida pudo haber terminado empate o tablas (No se como le llaman ustedes en Argentina). Me imagino que el pánico tomó control de tu oponente cuando se dió cuenta de que era tarde para detener tu peón. Buena partida.

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