The book you have just started reading is about a very interesting
and difficult concept: the exchange sacrifice. This is the moment
in chess when basic mathematics breaks down, the moment when 3
counts equal to or even more than 5. So let us leave the
mathematics aside and try to figure out why this simple calculation
is so difficult to understand. The answer is largely hidden in
psychology, as the ninth World Champion, Tigran Petrosian, has
often told us, as the man who brought this strategic-tactical chess
concept to its first peak. Chess beginners were taught the value of
pieces by their teachers (parents, grandparents, perhaps at school
or even later in the beginners’ sections of chess clubs). We
explain the difference between piece values to children in the
simplest way possible, with the help of a unit of measurement, and
in chess those units are the pawns. They tell us that a rook is
worth five pawns (units) and a knight and a bishop are worth about
three each. They also tell us to always be careful, especially
during exchanges, to ensure we take at least as much from our
opponent as he or she took from us. So, one rook at a time, perhaps
for a bishop and a knight next to two pawns. This “chess
thinking” is done quickly and very strongly subconsciously in
most, one could even say all. Therefore, when choosing moves, we
will automatically reject unfavorable exchanges. But who trades a
queen for a knight, a bishop for a pawn, and the like? We know from
our own life experience that it is better to have ten coins in our
pocket than three, and I prefer three to one! This psychological
barrier is the most difficult step in making the decision to
sacrifice. And so it is with the sacrifice of an exchange. Five for
three, that is! Even five for four, if we get a pawn for the rook
along with the knight or the bishop. “I am not stupid,” you
think. The Exchange Sacrifice Unleashed brings different games or
coaches try to explain this and that to us, we see that a material
advantage is not always something to celebrate about.
General
Imprint: |
Thinkers Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
Belgium |
Series: |
Power of Middlegame Knowledge |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Georg Mohr
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 170mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
496 |
ISBN-13: |
978-9464201864 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
946420186X |
Barcode: |
9789464201864 |
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