Chess Videos | Dancing and Killing Knights

It is true that 21st-century chess is heavily influenced by computers in various ways . This undeniable reality can lead to the erroneous conclusion that intuitive, medium- or long-term material sacrifices—those whose consequences cannot be accurately calculated even by silicon monsters—are already a thing of the past or an endangered species sacrificed to the gods of accuracy.

The game in this video, from 2023, demonstrates that this is not the case, and in a beautiful way, because the White player follows his intuition, closely linked to pattern recognition, to sacrifice his queen in the middle of the opening in exchange for a long attack on the king, which his knights culminate with a very harmonious dance. The author of this marvel, Gergely Szabo (Bucharest, 1983), a Romanian grandmaster and coach in Canada, works at a school for young talents in that country whom he will be able to delight again and again with this immortal work.