Robert Ris' Fast and Furious: Sacrifices in the Sicilian

by Robert Ris
9/14/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at a game from the Chess Olympiad, in which White crushed the Sicilian in typical sacrificial style. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Robert Ris: "I have a look at the spectacular 1st round game Christiansen-Lee from the match Norway-South Korea. In a 6.Bg5 Najdorf the players soon left theory behind and set the board on fire with some thematic sacrifices.

In this episode I'll try to explain some of the main ideas behind these sacrifices and how Black should deal with them. In the game Black quickly lost his way and White got the chance to finish the game in style."

Question: White has just sacrficed his knight on d5. How should he follow-up?

Johan-Sebastian Christiansen - Junhyeok Lee, Chess Olympiad Budapest 2024
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Robert is an International Master who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On the PlayChess server The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous DVDs and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He has started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.

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