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Rook Sacrifice

Rook Sacrifice

A Rook Sacrifice is a deliberate move where you offer a Rook to your opponent. The first diagram above shows a tactical Rook sacrifice (calculation-based, risk-free, leading to immediate advantages like checkmate or gain of material): 1.Rxf6 gxf6 2.Qxf6+ Kg8 3.Qxd8+.

The second diagram above (Kramnik vs. Harikrishna, 2017) shows a long-term, intuition-based positional sacrifice: 1.Rxe5 sacrifices the Rook to gain powerful piece activity against the exposed black King.

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