Chess World.net Instructive Game: A pawn sacrifice which turned out okay! White vs Sicilian

[Event "Herts League Div 1"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.01.31"]
[Round "?"]
[White "T, Gavriel"]
[Black "M, Boyce"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[Annotator "Tryfon"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2012.02.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bc4 (5. Bb5 Nd4 6. O-O Nxb5 7. Nxb5)
5... e6 6. a3 Nge7 7. Ba2 d5 8. d3 Bxc3+ (8... O-O 9. h4 h5) 9. bxc3 dxe4 10.
Ng5 (10. dxe4 Qxd1+ 11. Kxd1) 10... exd3 11. cxd3 (11. O-O dxc2 12. Qxc2) 11...
b6 12. O-O O-O (12... Ba6 13. Rf3) (12... Ba6 13. Rf3 Nd4 14. cxd4 Qxd4+ 15.
Be3) 13. Rf3 h6 14. Ne4 Kg7 15. Qe1 f6 (15... f5 16. Nf2 Qd6 17. Re3 (17. Bb2
Nd5 18. Qd2 Bb7 19. Re1) 17... Nd5) 16. g4 e5 (16... f5 17. gxf5 exf5 18. Ng3)
17. f5 (17. fxe5 Nxe5) (17. fxe5 Nxe5 (17... fxe5 18. Bxh6+) (17... fxe5 18.
Bxh6+ Kxh6 19. Rh3+ Kg7 20. Qh4 Rh8 21. Qf6#) 18. Bxh6+ Kxh6 19. Qh4+ Kg7 20.
Rh3 Nf3+ (20... Rh8 21. Qxf6#) 21. Rxf3 Nd5 (21... g5 22. Nxg5 (22. Qg3) 22...
fxg5 23. Qxg5+ Ng6 24. Rf7+) 22. Rh3 Rh8 23. Qxh8+ Qxh8 24. Rxh8 Kxh8 25. Bxd5)
17... gxf5 (17... g5) (17... g5) 18. Bxh6+ Kh7 (18... Kxh6 19. Rh3+ Kg7 20. Qh4
Rh8 21. Qxf6#) 19. Bxf8 Qxf8 (19... fxe4 20. Qh4+ Kg6 21. Qh5#) 20. Rh3+ (20.
Qh4+ Qh6 21. Nxf6+) 20... Kg6 21. Qh4 1-0

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• grand prix attack
• david rumens
• Gawain Jones

[EK22able]

KC why take the exchange Bxf8 instead of playing Qh4 which keeps the attack and if Ng6 then Qh5. His useless rook on F8 is way worse than your bishop on H6

[kingscrusher]

@EK22able How does Bxf8 not keep the attack?! It seemed completely winning to me

[northlondonguitarist]

@kingscrusher as supported by the fact that your opponent resigned two moves later. If that is not keeping up an attack, I don't know what is

[Papajack55]

i was acualy pondering the unfortunate g5 for white on move 17.only because some times lines that appear to be dangerous or losing upon further analysis contain some double exclams

[WalkerH4O2]

@selfoe we should always try to do the best that we can in chess and all other parts of life. if we are making good moves in chess then it is likely that we are also making good moves in the rest of life.

[selfoe]

@WalkerH4O2 I agree with that...But I also believe that as humans, it is impossible for us to achieve a state of mind that exclusively focus on "good moves"...How do we decide what are good moves anyway?...We can only tell objectively after the game is over...We can assume perhaps we are making good moves and focusing on that exclusively, but I believe there's at least some thought in the back of our minds, which is unrelated to "finding good moves" operation.

[Kasparovwannabe]

Kings I am not sure that Ng5 was actually a zwischenzug. An in between move is were you play a move before you play the routine move. In this case you never played the capture so Ng5 was not in between anything it was just a sacrifice.

[WalkerH4O2]

@selfoe if we make decisions based on our state of mind, what does that tell us? it tells us that state of mind is important to achieve good results, right? so, what is the "best state of mind" for playing chess. imagine that we could prepare our state of mind before a game. how would we want to prepare it or design it before the game? is it possible to remove everything except for our focus on "good moves"? and maybe "good moves" is our "best possible state of mind".

[WalkerH4O2]

@mattiassollerman sometimes there is a common word like "confidence" that refers to a concept, but we honestly don't know what the concept is. can you define or explain what the word "confidence" means to you? it seems to me that (speed+good moves=wins). speed and good moves require energy. so i tend to consider how we use energy to be very important in our results. but "confidence" and other similar concepts, are not things that i reflect on much.

[mattiassollerman]

@WalkerH4O2 Fischer also said "Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself". The addition of "and this confidence should be based on fact." makes the quote somewhat ambiguous but then again, quote mining never was a solid foundation for an argument. Isn't sport psychology a rather well developed field anyway, regardless of anecdotal evidence (e.g. sometimes playing well even when nervous)?

[selfoe]

@WalkerH4O2 Sorry about that...I am only trying to state that psychology is an important part of chess, as we make decissions based not only in the game itself, but also in our state of mind...I think Fischer's statement intends to point out the opposite, and with that I disagree...You may disagree with me as well, I don't have a degree in psychology so you probably know better...It's my humble opinion only...xD

[Otherguylb]

Generally I try to take the pawns near king with my pawns because it gains time and doesn't let the opponent to close the position. I saw the Bishop sac easily when you asked about it, but I could not have seen it with other variation which is better according to engine...