1. d4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nbd2 e6 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. Re1 O-O 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. e4 Qb6 11. Qe2 Bd7 12. e5 Nh5 13. Ng5 g6 14. Nxh7 Nf4 15. Nf6+ Kg7 # 16. Nxd7 (16. Qf3 Nxd3 17. Nxd7 Bxf2+ 18. Kh1 Qd8 (18... Nxe1 19. Qf6+ Kg8 20. Nxb6) 19. Rf1 (19. Nxf8 Bxe1 20. Qxd3 Qxf8 21. Nf3) 19... Qxd7) 16... Nxe2+ 17. Rxe2 Qc7 18. Nxc5 Nxe5 19. Rxe5 Qxe5 20. Nd7 Qh5 21. Nxf8 Rxf8 (21... Qd1+ 22. Bf1 Rxf8 23. Nb3) 22. Nf3 e5 23. Bc2 Rc8 24. Bd2 d4 25. Re1 f6 26. Re4 g5 27. Bb3 g4 28. Be6 f5 29. Rxe5 # 29... Rf8? (29... gxf3! 30. Rxf5 dxc3 31. bxc3 (31. Bxc3+ Rxc3 32. bxc3 Qg6) 31... Qxf5 32. Bxf5 Rd8 33. Be1 Rd1 34. gxf3 Rxe1+ 35. Kg2) 30. Nxd4 g3 31. fxg3 Qd1+ 32. Be1 f4 33. Bb3 Qc1 34. gxf4 (34. Ne6+ Kf6) 34... Rxf4 35. Ne6+ Kf6 36. Nxf4 Qxf4 37. Re2 Qg4 38. Bd1 Qd7 39. Bh4+ Kg6 40. Bc2+ Kh5 41. Bg3 Qd8 42. Re5+ Kh6 43. Bf4+ Kg7 44. Rg5+ Kf8 45. Rf5+ Kg7 46. Be5+ Kh6 47. Bd4 Qh4 48. Be3+ 1-0

Of course he saw 21.Qxf8+.
The reason he didnt play it was because Kupreichik obviously missed the strong 21-Nce5! after 21.Qg1

Here's a game where technically there's a queen sacrifice, as well as a ton of other great sacrifices:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1340086

This is the coolest came I've come across in a while.

1.e4 d6
2.Qh5 g6
3.Qh4 e6
4.d4 Qxh4

Played in the ICC 5-minute pool, circa 2007.

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3 b5 9. Be2 Bb7 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Ne5 Bg7 12. Nxd7 Nxd7 13. Bd6 a5 14. e5 Bf8 15. Ne4 c5 16. Nxc5 Nxc5 17. dxc5 Qd7 18. Bf3 a4 19. Bxf8 Qxd1 20. Bxb7 Qd4 21. Bg7 Rb8 22. Bc6+ Ke7 23. Rad1 Qxc5 24. Rd7+ Ke8 25. Rd6+ Ke7 26. Rfd1 f6 27. Rd7+ Ke8 28. exf6 Rf8 29. Re7# {Black checkmated} 1-0

The position after 21.Bg7 is pretty amusing. Black's king is totally stranded in the center while I've managed to fianchetto my bishops to b7 and g7

It took me about 10 minutes and 3 read throughs to figure out what the hell went on here.

Also played in the ICC 5-min pool.

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 Bb4+ 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bd2 Nf6 7. O-O-O
O-O 8. f3 Be6 9. g4 Ne5 10. g5 Ne8 11. f4 Nc4 12. Bxc4 Bxc4 13. f5 c6 14.
Nf3 Qa5 15. g6 fxg6 16. fxg6 h6 17. Nd4 Bxc3 18. Bxc3 Qxa2 19. Nf5 Nf6



20.Rxd6 Qa1+ 21. Kd2 Qxh1

Find the win.

Very nice. I enjoyed playing over this game, and you really did sacrifice your queen (and it looks sound enough to me).

Pretty slick. You should be proud, it's rare to play such a nice combination in 5 minute.

Finally! I have one.
Some things to consider tho. Villain is clearly a weak player and i was playing at 4:30 in the morning after saturday night (lol), so it was a quite poor game, speciallly in the opening. But the sac is awesome!

[Event "rated standard match"]
[Site "FICS"]
[Date "2010.07.18"]
[Round "1"]
[White "DONCASTI"]
[Black "bokken"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "1777P"]
[BlackElo "1745"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4 e6 6. Nc3 Qc7? 7. Be3? Nf6 8. 0-0-0 Qa5 9. Kb1 Be7 10. Be2? 0-0 11. g4 Bb4 12. g5 e5



13. Qxb4!! Qxb4 14. gxf6 g6 15. f3?

(Here 15.Nd5! is winning)

15. ... d6 16. Nd5

(Now this move is not that strong as before, but 16. Rd5! wins the Q back with big advantage. Unfortunately i didnt see any of them, but finally managed to draw in an inferior position. Here's the rest of the game, but its not interesting).

16. ... Qa5
Bh6 Re8
h4 Be6
Ne7+ Rxe7
fxe7 Qxa2+
Kc1 Qa1+
Kd2 Qxb2
h5 Rc8
Bd3 Qc3+
Ke2 Bc4
Bd2 Bxd3+
cxd3 Qc7
Bg5 Kg7
hxg6 fxg6
Rh3 h5
Rg3 Qc2+
Rd2 Qc5
Kf1 a5
Rdg2 Rg8
Be3 Qxe3
Rxg6+ Kf7
Rxg8 Qxd3+
Kg1 Qd1+
Kh2 Kxe7
R2g7+ Ke6
Re8+ Kf6
Ree7 Qe2+
Kg1 h4
Ref7+ Ke6
Game drawn by mutual agreement

1/2-1/2

wow really nice Q sac, reminiscient of the Nezhmetdinov game(s) which I know are linked in this thread. I wouldn't be too worried that the computer finds big improvements for both sides, it's the same in that Nezhmetdinov game. Except that you don't mention 17. Ne7+ which seems like a big improvement and quite straightforward.

1. c4 e5 2. e3 d5 3. d4 exd4 4. Qxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 c5 6. Qd1 d4 7. exd4 cxd4 8.
Nd5 Nxd5 9. cxd5 Qxd5 10. Nf3 Nc6 11. Be2 Bc5 12. O-O O-O 13. Bd3 Bg4 14.
Re1 Rfe8 15. Be2 Re6 16. Be3 Rae8 17. Rc1 Bxf3 18. Bxf3 dxe3 19. Bxd5 exf2+
20. Kf1 Rxe1+ {White resigns} 0-1


Game against a 15 or 1600 a month or so ago when I was making a comeback.

Here's a game I played as white, with 5 days per move. It doesn't quite fit the criteria, but I pseudo-sac my queen twice on the same square (well, maybe technically they were 2 different queens).

It was all made possible by my opponent's unexplainable 19...Kf7. 19...Kxh7 looks so much more natural and is a much better move.

After 21...Nf5 we have:



22. Qxf8+ Bxf8 23. h8=Q Nce7 24. Qxf8+ and black resigns.

For the record, I think 24. Bh5+ is better (like in terms of what a computer eval would be), but 24. Qxf8+ is cooler and gets the queens off the board after 24...Kxf8 25. Nxd7+. When I'm up that much material, I really like to make sure that the queens are gone, because otherwise they create too many perpetual check threats and the like that I'd rather not have to deal with.

wat

Edit: err nevermind, I see it.

I don't. What's going on here?

that's racist!

queen sac on f8. promotion of a new queen, another queen sac on f8, Nxd7+ ---> Nxb6 in the end.

There was a Queen sac in the Nimzo Indian that I used to play in blitz - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 c5 5.d5 Nxd5 6.Bxd8 Nxc3

Can't remember how it goes from there.. not very good for Black but gives reasonable practical chances. I probably scored about 50% with it.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1539950

Karjakin played with some nerve here

Rybka: 40. Rc2 +2.29 for white

Most serious chess players know this one. Its always been one of my favorites.

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 d6
3. Bc4 Bg4
4. Nc3 g6
5. Nxe5 Bxd1?
6. Bxf7+ Ke7
7. Nd5++

An OTB tournament game I played where I'm White and it's my move. Black just played 19 ...d5 and I've been kicking him around in the opening I an know he's just dying to play 20 ...d4 with his first real threat of the game.

So I play 20. Nc6 and he doesn't see the threat and quickly plays 20 ...d4:




WHITE TO MOVE


SOLUTION AND FINAL POSITION BELOW


21. Nxd8 dxc3 22. Re8+ Kg7 23.Bxc3 the Queen is pinned to the King and White wins the back the Queen and the exchange.

So this was really just a pseudo-queen sac, but it's the only Queen sac I've played in an OTB game and I kind of like it as the knight really does a heavy-duty job:

-by moving to c6 it clears the e-file for the White rook
-it then moves off of c6 which opens the b5 Bishop's diagonal controlling the e8 square
-at the same time it then takes out the rook at d8,which clears the back rank for white's rook,
-but most importantly and perhaps trickiest of all, it covers the f7 flight square of the Black King, so the King must move to g7 where it gets pinned.

Here's the position after Bxc3:

the last tournament I played, there were two games where my opponent could have sacrificed a Queen.

one of them was here


White to move

The other was this theoretical line in the Panov-Botvinnik:

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Qb3 Bxf3 9. gxf3 Nb6 10. Be3 e6 11. d5 exd5 12. O-O-O (instead he played 12...Rc8? 13. Bh3+/- and lost quickly, because he didn't like the look of the Q sac line) Be7 13. Bxb6 (13. Nxd5+=) 13...axb6 (13...Qxb6!?) 14. Nxd5 O-O! 15. Nf6+ (15. Rg1) Bxf6 16. Rxd8 and it turns out Black is doing just fine.