The Bishop Sacrifice

I have always loved experimenting with material sacrifices in chess. While some of the sacrifices force the opponent into losing, other sacrifices don't give you a clear picture if you are winning or losing. This particular game is significant, because this was my first win against a chess program (rating 1674 on FICS). And defeating black in Sicilian - Scheveningen Variation made the victory even better. In this game I made a bishop sacrifice on move 20 and the game was over 5 moves later.

[Event "rated standard match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2011.01.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "rmnforever"]
[Black "LochChessMonster"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1524"]
[BlackElo "1674"]
[ECO "B23"]
[TimeControl "900"]


1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. a3 d6 5. d3 Ne5 6. Ba2 Bg4 7. Nge2 e6 8. 
O-O Be7 9. f3 Bh5 10. Ng3 O-O 11. Nxh5 Nxh5 12. f4 Nxd3 13. cxd3 Nf6 14. Qf3 
Qc7 15. Qg3 Nh5 16. Qg4 Nf6 17. Qh3 Rad8 18. f5 e5 19. Rf3 h6 20. Bxh6 gxh6 
21. Qxh6 Ng4 22. Qh3 Nf6 23. Rg3+ Ng4 24. Rxg4+ Bg5 25. Rxg5# 
{LochChessMonster checkmated} 1-0

Happy New Year 2011

Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous New Year 2011.

Place : Bryant's Park, Kodaikanal
Camera : Sony Cybershot DSC-W35
Flash : No
Post Processing : No
ISO : 100
Exposure : 1/250 (Automatic)
Focal Length : 6.3 mm (Automatic)
Aperture : 2.8 (Automatic)