New: Krishnan Sasikiran: The Art of Sacrificing
The perfect sacrifice is every chess player's dream. You give your opponent material "for free", but in return you gain overwhelming piece activity, which, combined with creative ideas, can lead to a memorable game. In his new FritzTrainer course, Krishnan Sasikiran - who played no fewer than 11 Olympiads - shows how to correctly sacrifice a piece and obtain sufficient compensation for the material! Grab this Fritztrainer, increase your understanding of the art of sacrificing. You can now stream videos and study from ChessBase books on any device - laptop, smartphone or a tablet. Photo: ChessBase
Krishnan Sasikiran: The Art of Sacrificing
Throughout the video course, he shows various examples from his career to explain sacrifices for initiative, an attack, a better pawn structure and much more. Being a conceptual player, he explains the thought process and emotions during his games and dives into his decision making over the board. Occasionally, the student is asked to calculate blindfold along with him, so that visualization and calculation of variations are also part of the training process.
Free video sample: Introduction
Free video sample: Sacrificing a Pawn for Initiative
• Video running time: 8 hours
System requirements
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation.
Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11 and internet access for program activation.
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Streaming: for iPad & tablet
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About the Author
Krishnan Sasikiran is a chess Grandmaster from India, the second Indian to reach 2700 Elo after former World Champion Vishy Anand. His peak Elo was 2720 (2012) which made him number 21 in the world rankings. Asian Games gold medalist 2006 and Olympiad Bronze medalist from Tromso, Norway 2014, Sasikiran has been one of the key members of the Indian national team from 1998 to 2022 winning several medals for his country over more than two decades. He has won many closed and open events, and assisted Vishy Anand as a second for his matches against Magnus Carlsen in 2013 (Chennai, India) and 2014 (Sochi, Russia).
