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| Posted by nathanman22 uskidscompute.com 4/15/2008 15:54:03 play online chess |  Subject: The Best Rook Sacrifice I've ever made!Message:  gameknot.com
I was recently playing a league game that I had to win. Early in the game, I pressed forward with my pawns knowing this was important to the end game. Then the crucial move came. I forced an attack on his king that won me a pawn and forced his knight to move up supported by two pawns. However, if I was to take that knight, no matter how he took back with his pawns, he would leave an open passed pawn that from every calculation I did could not be reached by his king or his remaining rook... The sacrifice on move 40 has got to be one of the best ever sacrifices I have ever played, but the thinking started back several moves... Any thoughts on this game are welcome. The game is still in motion....but soon will be done I believe as I am going to get a queen and he can't stop it.... I would appreciate if someone could annotate it--let me know if anyone is interested. Thanks. -Nathanman22 |
| Posted by nathanman22 uskidscompute.com 4/15/2008 15:54:32 play online chess | actually Message: -Nathan |
| Posted by chessnovice uskidscompute.com 4/15/2008 16:34:35 play online chess | ... Message: |
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 4/16/2008 13:58:33 play online chess | Very nice sac: Message: Having played through the game I guess I could annotate it... Some rather interesting positional decisions by White earlier on didn't help the mobility of his knight. Quite ironic that once it did find a good square, it got axed by that rook (Exchange) sac. Cheers, Ion |
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