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sacrifice definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta chess strategic giving up of chess piece: in chess, an act or instance of allowing or forcing an opponent to take one of your pieces or pawns so that you can gain an advantage position transitive verb chess strategically give up chess piece: in chess, to allow or force one of your pieces or pawns to be taken by an opponent so that you can gain an advantage in position intransitive verb baseball hit sacrifice bunt: in baseball, to bunt the ball, expecting to be put out, in order to advance a base runner encarta.msn.com /dictionary_/sacrifice.html   (345 words)

Chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chess is one of the world's most popular games; it has been described not only as a game but also as an art and a science. Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art", and teaching chess has been advocated as a way of enhancing mental prowess. Chess openings are a sequence of moves, often memorized, which will help a player build up their position and prepare for the middlegame. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess   (3660 words)

Chess Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) When one side or color in a game of chess is winning the game, then that side is said to have the advantage, edge, pull, or plus. A gambit usually involves the sacrifice of a pawn or minor piece when a game is in a complex phase such as the opening or middlegame. An apparent sacrifice of material for a clear advantage is called a combination; not a gambit. www.logicalchess.com /info/reference/glossary.html   (4519 words)

Info and facts on 'Chess'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Chess is not a game of chance (A game that involves gambling) ; it is based solely on tactics (The branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy) and strategy (The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war). Chess is one of the world's most popular (additional info and facts about popular) games; it has been described not only as a game, but also as an art (The creation of beautiful or significant things), science (A particular branch of scientific knowledge), and sport (An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition). Chess eventually reached Russia (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) via Mongolia (A landlocked socialist republic in central Asia), where it was played at the beginning of the 7th century (additional info and facts about 7th century). www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chess.htm   (3295 words)

chessterms Chess games stored in a cross-platform software format (.pgn) which may be read by all major chess database programs. Another type of sacrifice is giving up a piece in order to break down the pawn shield in front of the enemy king as part of a mating attack. Sacrifices are often risky, since the eventual consequences are not always calculable. www.angelfire.com /games5/chessodyssey/chessterms.htm   (12983 words)

Sacrifice Explorer A sacrifice in chess is the action of intentionally losing material with the expectation of future benefit. A sacrifice for intiative, with no clear route to recovering the material, is sometimes called a speculative sacrifice. A sacrifice which can be conclusively demonstrated to recover the material with an advantage is referred to as a temporary sacrifice, a sham-sacrifice, or simply a combination. www.chessgames.com /perl/sacrifices?help=1   (871 words)

Chess: openings Throughout your 9 year hiatus in chess I am sure you will have become familiar with this term or that of "removing the guard" An example might be if the opponent knight, which is protected by a pawn, is protecting their queen. The purpose of sacrifices is often to open up the area surrounding the king and then deliver the final blow, a checkmate. Sacrifices here usually only serve to open up the board and use up already dormant pieces thus only threat in the moderate to long-term game plan. en.allexperts.com /q/Chess-1332/openings-1.htm   (1678 words)

CHESS; Exchange Sacrifice, Perfectly Exemplified - New York Times TO sacrifice the exchange is to give up a rook, a major piece, for a minor piece, either a knight or bishop. It is similar to ordinary exchanges, like that of pawn for pawn, in that quantitatively the transaction is even; but it differs in that qualitatively a piece of greater value, a rook, is given up for a knight or a bishop, either one being of lesser value. The justification is that in the specific situation on the board, the extra minor piece that the sacrificer is left with exercises greater power than the opponent's extra rook. query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DC113DF93BA25757C0A965958260   (479 words)

Tactic in chess A combination is a particular case of a tactical maneuver in which a sacrifice is being done. One of the great chess players of the world, Botvinnik, gave a good definition of this notion: " The combination is a forced version of sacrifice". Botvinnik states that the forced tactical maneuver, without a sacrifice, must not be mistaken with the combination. www.chessguru.net /tactic   (424 words)

[No title] Sacrifices of pursuit that feature a sequence of forced moves are easiest to calculate. Sometimes, a sacrifice of pursuit will drive the defending king into a mating net which may require a small adjustment before it becomes fully operational. The game is analyzed in The Modern Chess Sacrifice (McKay, 1978) by GM Shamkovich who bases his comments on Nezhmetdinov's own observations about this game. www.chesscafe.com /text/sunil07.txt   (1570 words)

qed's Chess page Kasparov's thoughts on the 1996 match between him and IBM's super chess machine "Deep Blue" are at the end. Because chess is a game of virtually limitless possibilities, even a beast like Deep Blue, which can look at more than 100 million positions a second, can go only so deep. While the computers did not seem to be playing up to the standards of these champion GMs from a pure chess point of view, they definately demonstrated that their accuracy, depth, and relentless energy and resourcefulness to compensate. www.azillionmonkeys.com /qed/chess.html   (961 words)

Chess-centered drama 'Sacrifice' fails to move - The Boston Globe In ''The Art of Sacrifice," receiving its world premiere at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Anthony Clarvoe uses chess as the generational battleground, and if you think chess isn't the most dramatic way to illustrate father-son problems, you're absolutely right. A chess move illustrating the art of sacrifice foretells what happens in the plot, though given the title of the play, this is not a particularly shocking development. The latter has been the chess equivalent of a stage mother since Aron's childhood, pushing him beyond bladder control to get all the right moves. www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/11/19/chess_centered_drama_sacrifice_fails_to_move   (525 words)

X-bit labs - Articles - Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer (page 2) And there was a miracle: the computer took 15 minutes to consider the next move, although it had made all its previous moves in three minutes exactly. That’s why one of the common methods against programs is to sacrifice for a positional compensation, which cannot be evaluated correctly by the program. This can happen to a chess master, especially, as Kasparov was quite tired after the previous games. www.xbitlabs.com /articles/editorial/display/chess_2.html   (590 words)

John Henderson Reviews the film "The Luzhin Defence" It tells the story of the shambling, shy, unworldly chess grandmaster, who has retreated and found solace through the logic of chess after witnessing the failure of his parents' marriage. In chess circles the best-known part of Nabokov's story - which is basically a sort of chess equivalent of Hamlet - is the fact that the novel's main character commits suicide by jumping out of a window. Nabakov, a chess problemist and amateur player, knew what he was writing about: then and now, tragedy has always been a key player in the game. www.chesscenter.com /twic/luzhin.html   (628 words)

Rahul Subramaniam Initially, people are attracted to chess to watch the splendid fight between opposing forces. Chess, as well as life, is too complicated to calculate far into. The way to handle this is by basing actions (or moves!) on a set of time-tested principles and then calculating major alternatives into the near future. www.chessdryad.com /articles/rahul/art_01.htm   (637 words)

ChessBase.com - Chess News - Sacrifice your rooks, not your wife! As we said before, chess, or its variations like shatranj, was played everywhere, even in royal palaces, and even there they played it for stakes. This story is also a clear proof of two things important from the chess point of view: one is that even in that medieval era, when women's rights were so strongly limited, they played chess. Another is that players of that time, too, observed certain chess etiquette because Dilaram did not directly tell her husband the solution she found but hinted at it through a song. www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=872   (1690 words)

.::. Checkers & Chess .::. I recall hours spent playing chess with my father, then flipping the chess pieces in a box and pulling out the checkers when friends came over, and spending more hours playing fast tournaments of draughts with them. Both games have been entertaining adults and children in parlours and nurseries for centuries and, even in the age of computers and electronic gadgets, the games of checkers and chess have not lost their appeal. A player is said to sacrifice in chess if he allows a certain amount of his forces to be captured without recapturing han equivalent amount of his opponent's forces for some strategic reason. www.checkersandchess.com   (470 words)

Chess: play online chess I have reached the point in my chess career when to progress further I must learn to sacrifice material in order to gain the initiative, time, space etc. The problem is I can never seem to do this especially when there is no certain way to regain the lost material or mate the king immediately. One thing about playing an aggressive style, with a desire to sacrifice pieces, is that one becomes attuned to possibilities that material considerations would rule out of court (indeed, that are invisible to one not willing to see past material considerations). Possibly there is a stage in one's chess development that seeks to overturn material considerations, not so much consciously to explore the potentials existing in terms of time and space - though no doubt that is where it will lead - but just to 'win against the odds', in a manner of speaking. uskidscompute.com /online/chess/3787.shtml   (4527 words)

Chess Glossary, Chess-Theory's Glossary of Chess Terms, Alphabetical classification of chess terms, Comprehensive Chess ... After the judicious sacrifice of some figures, the remaining chessmen are strongest, because they benefit from a greatest freedom and they are facing a weakened enemy position. A Deviation Sacrifice is a sacrifice whose the goal is to deviate an enemy chessman either from the square that he occupies, or from lines which he controls, or again from the sector where he is useful for a given role. An Obstructing Sacrifice is a sacrifice having for objective to block off a line (file, rank or diagonal) useful for the opponent. www.chess-theory.com /enva04s_glossary_chess_theory.php   (4931 words)

Sacrifice chess Some of my experience with the rule has made me suspect the pawn sacrifice is seldom worthwhile -- perhaps the rule might come into play once every other game. Obviously, the pawn sacrifice introduces a new style of skewer attack, but it the only times in my games where it has been worthwhile to actually sacrifice the pawn is when the unveiled attack gives check or focuses more materiel onto a critical central square, and in doing so, forces one's opponent to retreat. Often, the threat of a pawn sacrifice attack is more valuable than actually carrying the sacrifice out. www.chessvariants.org /usualeq.dir/sacrifice.html   (358 words)

Inerrancy Method - The Chess Gambit. - Page 2 - TheologyWeb Campus In chess there are pawn gambit openings, what people like Bellin would characterize as beginning moves in chess in which a pawn is sacrificed in order to obtain an advantage in another element of chess other than material, such as position. The original definitions would be something like a cultic act required for atonement or to otherwise satisfy the demands of a divine figure in which a tangible object is destroyed or a living creature is slain by the officiant. Another definition, achieved by borrowing and semantic shift is that a sacrifice is any act in which one thing is given up to gain something else: i.e., a sacrifice fly in baseball. theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=90693&page=2   (4432 words)

Inerrancy Method - The Chess Gambit. - TheologyWeb Campus In chess, the phrase 'minor piece' has the specific connotation of knight or bishop (the queen and rooks are 'major' pieces). A chess glossary would define 'gambit' along the lines of: A sacrifice of material in the opening, usually a pawn, in order to obtain an advantage in another element, for example in time (manifested as a lead in development). In case you're ignorant of chess terminology, this chess definition is not an oddity. www.theologyweb.com /forum/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=90693   (1761 words)

The Campbell Report - "Hard Chess" Columns In recent months since my joining the wonderful repartee on John Knudsen's TCCMB (The Correspondence Chess Message Board), I've been asked by many participants about my preference (it could be fairly called a "love affair") for gambit play in the chess openings. In chess, which we like to view as a counterpart of life, a sacrifice arouses similar feelings in us. The glowing power of the sacrifice is irresistible; enthusiasm for sacrifice lies in man's nature. www.correspondencechess.com /campbell/a000531.htm   (1642 words)

Ask BACKSTAB Computer chess has made great strides on the user interface level....making it very easy to find opponents and actually play the game. What i mean is, dont just sacrifice for the fun of it....if it's the only way to secure the advantage, then go for it. These two types of sacrifices are explained in depth in Rudolph Spielmann's great work "The Art of Sacrifice in Chess". www.chess.net /learn/backstab/1999-03-15.html   (429 words)

Kenilworth Chess Club The reason "Complete Chess Strategy" is slightly superior to "Modern Chess Strategy" is because all the games are given in their entirety. He was nicknamed the "chess psychologist" because he would have a tendency to steer the game into positions that would be difficult for his opponents, and would be able to play well in a variety of different positions. The book starts out by describing how chess began and how people strategized the modern version of the game during its primitive years (circa 1500-1700), and finishes up by showing a few games that were played in the early to mid-nineteen-seventies and predicts what is in store for the future of chess. www.kenilworthchessclub.org /articles/books/minkov.html   (3261 words)

Chess: play online chess As to discrete sacrifice positions - likely the correspondence player with more time will deflect these before they occur - hard to see it coming over the board. There are also unsound and unclear sacrifices that succeed in otb play because of time pressure. Normally sacrifices in CC do not lead to an immediate win but to a complicate, doubtful position and lots of variations difficult to calculate and to decide who has an advantage. play-online-chess.com /online/chess/3310.shtml   (631 words)

Chessville - Reviews - How to Be Lucky in Chess - by David LeMoir - Reviewed by Rick Kennedy After the reviews in My Chess Psychology Bookshelf appeared at Chessville, I received a friendly but gently chiding e-mail from David LeMoir, who noticed that I had overlooked his How to Be Lucky in Chess. Chess players are much more mature than that – the endings of their games, especially at the club level, are due to either I won or You were lucky! After an Introduction,“Luck in Chess,” Part I is “Getting out of Jail” and Part III is “The Successful Speculative Sacrifice.” It should be no surprise that the role models for these chapters are Lasker and Tal, respectively. www.chessville.com /reviews/HowtoBeLuckyinChess.htm   (1262 words)

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