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The art of sacrifice

I wrote a new lesson titled “The art of sacrifice” – inspired by a game I watched on IGS today. It is about the following position (White to play):

Dia. 1

Read it if you want to find out how Dia.1 above is related to Dia.2 below

Dia. 2

Tags: lesson, sacrifice, samurai, tesuji

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2 Responses to “The art of sacrifice”

1. Imagist says:

   March 29, 2007 at 7:55 am

   These kinds of articles are great! Sacrifice is often talked about in passing but rarely are good concrete examples covered. My one request for this kind of article would be this: could you provide some further problems so that weaker players can learn to apply these concepts for ourselves? Often things seem obvious once they are explained but are much harder to find on one’s own. I know that would add a lot of work to each post, though, so I’ll forgive you if you ignore this request!
2. Sorin says:

   March 29, 2007 at 10:10 pm

   Hi Imagist,
   Thanks for the suggestion – I’ll try to come up with more examples and turn some into problems.