i sacrifice all my pieces!

i sacrifice all my pieces!

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this was from a game i played a few days ago, where i sacrifice two bishops and two rooks for an attack! note that stockfish does NOT bless these sacrifices - they aren't completely sound, but they put my opponent in a really uncomfortable spot.

- first bishop sacrifice was a greek gift, pretty standard stuff

- second bishop sacrifice was because their pawn was pinned to their defending rook, so it couldn't actually take (later analysis shows that they actually COULD take because it also double attacks my other bishop with their queen. but neither of us saw that)

- first rook sacrifice was to take away their defending knight. (stockfish does bless this one!)

- second rook sacrifice was to attack their queen and also threaten a discovered check + mate in 2. at this point, the opponent's best move is to just let their queen die.