Chess Club

SACRIFICE

In chess, a sacrifice is a move giving up a piece to gain tactical or positional compensation in other forms. A sacrifice could also be a deliberate exchange of a chess piece of higher value for an opponent's piece of lower value.

Because players usually try to hold on to their own pieces, offering a sacrifice can come as an unpleasant surprise to one's opponent, putting them off balance and causing them to waste precious time trying to calculate whether the sacrifice is sound or not, and whether to accept it.

CHESS IS LIFE; MAKE YOUR MOVE

Original art by Lloyd Goudie 
Printed locally here in Melbourne at Redwood Press on a 60z Classic Fit T-shirt.