Winning with Positional Sacrifice by GM Victor Mikhalevski

Winning with Positional Sacrifice by GM Victor Mikhalevski Positional sacrifice is a very delicate, yet very powerful technique that mostly advanced chess players perform. Some of the greatest chess minds in history of the game employed the positional sacrifice as the weapon of choice to win tournaments, matches and even World Championship titles. Number one chess player and the reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen is no exception. He proves over and over again, against the toughest competition that the positional sacrifice is something that can blow up an otherwise equally looking position and score a crucial win.The amateur players typically DO NOT understand the relative value of chess pieces well enough and prefer to simply keep the material. To make a “sound” positional sacrifice one must understand that value of the material can be well compensated in the form of: Initiative Centralization Attacking possibilities Pawn structure Space advantage Often the positional sacrifice c