Greek gift sacrifice

That will lead to much deeper learning.

For example, it's white to play in this position, strong players will notice a tactical idea in this position for white, an attacking pattern that usually works in those positions, okay? First things first, what is the tactical pattern? If you have seen the Greek gift sacrifice before in your life, I'm sure your attention is directed on the move bishop takes h7 sacrifice.

That's a Greek gift sacrifice.

You usually follow it up with knight g5 check, followed by queen h5 to h6.

quickly enter into the king's side with your pieces, use your local superiority, and checkmate the black king, right? I'm sure you've seen countless examples of the successful Greek gift.

We still have to calculate and find the best response for the opponent and even notice those similar and very typical ways to refute our ideas.

For example, from this example, we can extract the underlying abstraction is that Greek gift usually fails if they have a piece covering the h7 square, 1, cf9, g5, and Qh5, right? Now compare that Greek gift with this position.

This game was played around 400 years ago by the man called Greco, which gave the name Greek Gift Sacrifice.