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The Exchange Sacrifice
There is an interesting article by American grandmaster Gregory Serper at chess.com on the exchange sacrifice.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/th...r-grandmasters
He manages to start off with a quote from Schopenhauer and to work in a Coca Cola jingle:
'The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said: "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed; in the second it is opposed; in the third it is regarded as self-evident."
There are many chess ideas that went through these stages.
For example, a positional exchange sacrifice was an extremely rare occurrence in the games played in the 19th century. In his annotations to one of the games GM Tarrasch, dismissed such a sac as losing for Black even though these days most of chess players would prefer Black's position after that exchange sacrifice!'
Good writing and exposition.
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Wikipedia - Gregory Serper (born September 14, 1969) is an International Grandmaster of chess.
He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (present Uzbekistan).
At age 6, he learned to play chess from his grandfather. In 1985, at age 16, he started studies at Moscow's famous Botvinnik-Kasparov Chess School.
In 1992, as a member of the Uzbekistan team, Serper won the silver medal in the 30th Chess Olympiad.
In January 1996 he moved with his family to the United States.
There is an interesting article by American grandmaster Gregory Serper at chess.com on the exchange sacrifice.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/th...r-grandmasters
He manages to start off with a quote from Schopenhauer and to work in a Coca Cola jingle:
'The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said: "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed; in the second it is opposed; in the third it is regarded as self-evident."
There are many chess ideas that went through these stages.
For example, a positional exchange sacrifice was an extremely rare occurrence in the games played in the 19th century. In his annotations to one of the games GM Tarrasch, dismissed such a sac as losing for Black even though these days most of chess players would prefer Black's position after that exchange sacrifice!'
Good writing and exposition.
_________
Wikipedia - Gregory Serper (born September 14, 1969) is an International Grandmaster of chess.
He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (present Uzbekistan).
At age 6, he learned to play chess from his grandfather. In 1985, at age 16, he started studies at Moscow's famous Botvinnik-Kasparov Chess School.
In 1992, as a member of the Uzbekistan team, Serper won the silver medal in the 30th Chess Olympiad.
In January 1996 he moved with his family to the United States.