09 May 2009

Greek Gift Sacrifice

Using Bishop to get the King out of his defence, and then using the Knight to finish off.

This is taken from the chessvideos.tv site. I found out to be very interesting.

I learned a great deal from this video. Not just from the patterns of attack in this particular sacrificial line, but the general ideas of not letting the king "out of the box" before giving the check, and the skeleton characteristics of the position. I just had a really fun and quick game featuring the Greek gift sacrifice, and here it is:



For detail explanation click here.