Oh lord, this game was pure bliss to watch. #1613507, #1612279, #1610239, #1613507

FABIANO CARUANO ON FIIIIIIRE.

Five piece sacrifices, 3 of them given a brilliancy by Game Review
leeeesss go, bro.

Man woke up hungry and wanted blood. With a ten-minute time advantage and a nice juicy target on h6, Fabi went BOOM BOOM BRILLIANCE:

1. Bxh6!

And if you take back (bc honestly, what else?) king is butt naked, queen is in; bishop, knight AND OTHER KNIGHT incoming. Won't work out for black. (Computer says best line is Re8: just ignore the h6 bishop and DO NOTHING. Yeah, right.)

2. Bf5 -> !!

This didn't get a brilliance by Game Review but it's definitely the nastiest and most disrespectful.

you take the bishop... oops, rook is loose on the other side of the board. Didn't see that, did you? (Now you're down material and your position sucks as black) And if you don't... well, there's a checkmate on h7 so what gives?

Pragg hangs on with Ndf6, but EVEN AFTER THAT you can't even take the hanging bishop because a knight replaces it and there's unstoppable mate on g7.

3. Ne5!

I'm a little unsure why this is a brilliance (same reason, I guess? You're leaving the bishop on f5 to die); plan is to gallop into d7 and dislodge that annoying f6 knight which is preventing checkmate.

4: Rxd8

That one is barely a sacrifice; rook under attack, nowhere good to go... might as well start chopping down, and the bishop is a defender of the critical f6 knight.

...and THEEEEN

5: Nxe6!

Checkmate on g7 threatened AND your queen is hanging. You take the knight, it's forced checkmate (either with bishop on f7 after rook intercept; or, if you sidestep w king, knight on g6). You don't take the knight, and it's immediate checkmate.

Bye bye: GOOD (K)NIGHT!

Fucking poetry by Fabiano.