Publisher's Synopsis
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Compensation is a chess concept
that we only fully understand when we enter the world of serious chess.
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The relative value of pieces is
perhaps the most difficult chess concept of all to explain.
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It is one that every player
must feel and believe in and can only be accepted with the help of our own
practice, and when we feel it come together as though a part of us.
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Why so much talk about such or
similar sacrifices? Quite simply because we are afraid! We have been taught,
and practice shows and proves the clear fact, that the closer we get to the
last part of the game, the ending, the more pronounced a material advantage
becomes.
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If in the middlegame we can
still hope for sudden turns, for the influence of other pieces, this is
negligible in the endgame.
- · Maybe less so with tactical sacrifices, where we immediately see what the sacrificer gets in return.
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How can we not accept the rook
that the opponent offers us, when there is nothing concrete to see? One or two
weaknesses perhaps, but they can be eliminated, and the material advantage and
a secure victory in the endgame remains.