The Exchange Sacrifice: A Practical Guide

The Inscrutable Exchange Sacrifice!

The exchange sacrifice, giving up a rook for a bishop or knight, is one of the more mysterious concepts for most players to fathom. In this book — the first of its kind dedicated exclusively to the various types of positional exchange sacrifices — Belarussian grandmaster Sergey Kasparov weighs the pros and cons of this sacrifice — when it should be "on," and when not.

With almost 200 annotated games, he examines common themes in exchange sacrifices, inclu...