The perfect sacrifice is every chess player‘s dream. You give your opponent material, but in return you receive overwhelming piece activity, which together with creative ideas, can lead to an unforgettable game. However, sacrificing can also turn into a nightmare if the compensation is not enough, or the combination does not work. That is why the Indian top player and eleven-time(!) Olympic participant Krishnan Sasikiran has made it his mission to show sacrificing in all its aspects.
Throughout the video course, he shows various examples from his career to explain sacrifices for initiative, an attack, a better pawn structure and much more.
Being a conceptual player, he explains the thought process and emotions during his games and dives into his decision making over the board.
Occasionally, the student is asked to calculate blindfold along with him, so that visualization and calculation of variations are also part of the training process.
- Video running time: 9 hour 27 min (English)
- You can save all the games and variations from the video clips in your ChessBase database!
Krishnan Sasikiran is a chess Grandmaster from India, the second Indian to reach 2700 Elo after former World Champion Vishy Anand. His peak Elo was 2720 (2012) which made him number 21 in the world rankings. Asian Games gold medallist 2006 and Olympiad Bronze medallist from Tromso, Norway 2014, Sasikiran has been one of the key members of the Indian national team from 1998 to 2022 winning several medals for his country over more than two decades. He has won many closed and open events, and assisted Vishy Anand as a second for his matches against Magnus Carlsen in 2013 (Chennai, India) and 2014 (Sochi, Russia).
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