sacrifices
Selection of chess games featuring a player making a sacrifice for his advantage
sacrifice a pawn to open diagno for the bishop and a spot for the knight
1... d4 2.Nxd4 Nd5
white sacrifice a pawn to get a positional advantage!
1.d5 Bxc3 2.Qxc3 cxd5 3.Nd4 Qd7 4.c5 Nh7 5.b4 a6 6.a4 Rc8 7.b5 axb5 8.axb5 Rf8 9.c6 bxc6 10.bxc6 Qd8 11.Rc1 Nf6 12.c7 Qd7 13.Qe3 Ne4 14.f3 e5 15.fxe4 f4 16.gxf4 exd4 17.Rg2+
white sacrifice pawn to get a positional advantage!
1.d5 exd5 2.exd5 Bxd5 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bf4 Qxf4 5.Bxd7+ Kxd7 6.Rxd5+ Kc7 7.Re1 Bd6 8.Rf5 Qc4 9.Re4 Qb5 10.Rxf7+ Kb8 11.Re6 Rd8 12.c4 Qc6 13.Ne5 Qc8 14.Qb1
white sacrifice a pawn to get a positional advantage!
1.f6 Kh8 2.d5 Na5 3.Ng3 gxf6 4.Nf5 Bc8 5.Qh5 Bxf5 6.exf5 Rg8 7.Rf3 Rg7 8.Bh6 Rg8 9.Rh3
white sacrifice 2 rooks for a winning position!
1.Rxa5 Bxa5 2.Rxa5 Rxa5 3.Bxh6 Nh7 4.Nxg7 f5 5.exf5 Kh8 6.Nh5 Rg8 7.f6