Queen Sacrifices

in chess •  3 years ago 

One of the greatest feeling on a game of chess, is sacrificing your Queen on purpose so that once your opponent captures it, you deliver a devastating tactic to win the game. Of course, we don't want to typically give our Queen away but we must be prepared for anything if it means winning the game.

A queen sacrifice is always worth it if you can force checkmate. Sometimes it's also worthwhile if you have good compensation in the form of other well-coordinated pieces.


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In order to keep the King in the center, we are prepared to make some sacrifices that will end up in checkmate very soon.

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By checking the queen on the B file, white forces the knight to take the Queen, opening the D file for the rook.

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After this, checkmate with Rd8 is unavoidable.

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