Zhukov has an amazing capacity for finding beautiful sacrifices, but this one does not impress me. Sure, the try is nice, but you sacrifice the quiet, thematic key. Moreover, the bishop disappears on the first move.
There are many good malyutki in the literature, but there is perhaps only one great study with four pieces. It should stay like this.
The theme of this study is promotion. The bishop sacrifice is thematic because it doesn’t let the rook stop promotion. You may enjoy the original study more if you wish but you should admit that its thematic content is less impressive. Instead, you try to convince us that the sacrifice is not thematic, the bishop is a guest here because it dissappears on the first move (of course, pieces dissapear when they are sacrificed!) and the quiet key has to be missed. Don’t you know that a quiet move only gains in power when it follows a sacrifice? Even Zhukov knows it.
Замечательно! Красота вступает в игру с самого первого хода.
Zhukov has an amazing capacity for finding beautiful sacrifices, but this one does not impress me. Sure, the try is nice, but you sacrifice the quiet, thematic key. Moreover, the bishop disappears on the first move.
There are many good malyutki in the literature, but there is perhaps only one great study with four pieces. It should stay like this.
The theme of this study is promotion. The bishop sacrifice is thematic because it doesn’t let the rook stop promotion. You may enjoy the original study more if you wish but you should admit that its thematic content is less impressive. Instead, you try to convince us that the sacrifice is not thematic, the bishop is a guest here because it dissappears on the first move (of course, pieces dissapear when they are sacrificed!) and the quiet key has to be missed. Don’t you know that a quiet move only gains in power when it follows a sacrifice? Even Zhukov knows it.