Tactics for Everyone

Queen sacrifice - Part 1

What's the most beautiful, stylish and, why not, romantic way to win a chess game? Yes, you're right: sacrificing the Queen to checkmate the enemy King! In this new espisode of his Tactics for Everyone! show, GM Ronen Har-Zvi guides us throught this amazing piece of theory in the tactics department. As usual, it's a matter of patterns; when we learn to recognize the patterns, everything seems to fit perfectly over the board. By showing puzzles from famous games and problems he created, Ronen teaches us how to spot the patterns and, with the supreme and elegant sacrifice, win the game.

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