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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Lex Fridman Podcast
Sacrificing Pieces in Chess
In chess, bishops and knights are fairly equivalent. We both give them three points, but bishops are a little bit better. Especially a bishop pair is a lot better than a bishop and a knight. So like sacrificing a pawn in order to get a bishop pair, that's one of the most common sacrifices in chess. In 2019 I was sacrificing a lot of pawns, especially. And it was a great joy. Unfortunately it's not so easy to continue to do that. People have found more solid opening lines since that don't allow me to do that as often.
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