This Brilliant Queen Sacrifice Deserves To Be Famous

June 15, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video I am analyzing a chess game where Cuban chess player Gildardo Garcia sacrifices his queen against Spanish chess player Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez! The sacrificed queen in Sicilian defense allowed Black to gain two minor pieces and two pawns vs queen and prevail over it! In the end Gildardo Garica finishes up the game with a brilliant rook sacrifice! A game which deserves to be famous! In the end of the video as usual you can solve the daily puzzle!
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Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez vs Gildardo Garcia
Cienfuegos (1976)
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Classical Variation (B84)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e6
7. O-O Qc7 8. f4 Be7 9. Kh1 Nc6 10. Be3 O-O 11. Qe1 Na5
12. Rd1 b5 13. e5 dxe5 14. fxe5 Qxe5 15. Bf4 Qc5 16. Bf3 Bb7
17. b4 Qxb4 18. Bxb7 Rad8 19. Nc6 Nxc6 20. Bxc6 Rc8 21. Bd2
Rxc6 22. Nd5 Nxd5 23. Bxb4 Bxb4 24. Qe4 Bc3 25. Rd3 Rc4
26. Qf3 Bf6 27. Ra3 Rxc2 28. Rxa6 Rfc8 29. g3 Rc1 30. Rxc1
Rxc1+ 31. Kg2 Rc2+ 32. Kh3 g5 33. Ra3 Be7 34. Qd1 Rb2 35. Ra7
f5 36. Rxe7 Nxe7 37. g4 Nd5 38. gxf5 Rg2
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Video Thumbnail Credits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gildardo_Garcia.jpg

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