Post Books About Positional Sacrifice

Please books about Positional Sacrifice here. In your post name the title,  author,  and if needed publisher of the book. 

In my threads, I follow a pattern,  approaching Chess  Theory from different point of view. The same holds true here. 

I appreciate your inputs beforehand. Regards

I have seen books about: openings,  tactics, positional, pawn structure,  endgame. Now this topic is another way to look at chess in general.  It brings a new way to approach playing chess too. 

So please a book or more here if you know about Positional Sacrifice. 

Here are four books that deal with the subject of positional sacrifices, but not exclusively

• The Art of Sacrifice in Chess, 21st Century Edition by Rudolf Spielmann
• The Modern Chess Sacrifice by Leonid Shamkovich
• Pawn Sacrifice!: Winning at chess the adventurous way by Timothy Taylor
• Dynamic Chess Strategy: New Edition of a Modern Classic by Mihai Suba

Here are two books that are strictly dedicated to positional sacrifices, but I only own the latter and have not read it ... yet.

• Positional Chess Sacrifices by Mihai Suba
• Positional Sacrifices by Neil McDonald

I have one caveat, the material in these books should be approached in good time but is not for beginners or even some intermediates.

Good to hear from you. As usual you are full of good advices. Will look for them definitely. 

True to the latter paragraph.  I am just collecting information for later.  That is what I have time for now.  So when I reach it,  it will be the time,  hopefully the appropriate time for them. 

Thanks.  I guess Bob didn't  leave much for you to add.  He is that good and more. 

As an NM, how often do you play positional exchange sacrifices?

You are quite correct, Pushwood.  The first was titled Sacrifice in Chess by Alfred Kalnajs & Son; it ran 189 pages.  It was reprinted by The Chess Player as Chess Sacrifices in 1976.  Lastly, the book was expanded to 225 pages in 1978, renamed to The Modern Chess Sacrifice and published by David McKay.

Interestingly, on the cover of TMCS it says New and Expanded Edition.  From my research, I failed to discover if they mean expanded from an earlier McKay edition, which I can't find, or expanded from the Kalnajs edition.  I suspect it's the latter.

I assume you're implying it does not happen very often!? Regardless,  there is a G. M. who sacrifices pieces for pawn(s).  A 12 year old GM comes to mind whose preference is that.

I am more interested in the theoretical aspect of this point anyway. 

I was just rereading The Art of Sacrifice in Chess the other day (the older DN version).  I think it's an excellent book, and it should be easily understandable and enjoyed by lower rating players.

I think you're right about Spielmann's work.  I should have made myself clearer by saying it's the material on positional sacrifices that comes in time.  I certainly wouldn't recommend Dynamic Chess Strategy by Suba or for that matter Watson's Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch or Aagaard's Excelling at Chess to beginners or most intermediates.  All in good time.

It's just another point of view to diverse the approaches. So you do it sometimes.  When do you do it?  What are the circumstances that you recommend sacrifices? What do you sac for what?

Other than level issues,  is there any other reason for not recommending it?

No, I can't think of any, Joseph.   

Thanks.  I look for it. 

Thank you. And keep fighting for all the good things in life!

Another book:

van Delft "Mastering Positional Sacrifices".

Buyers' ratings are very good, slightly better than McDonald's book.

Nikola Nestorovic, Dejan Nestorovic

Positional Sacrifice in Modern Chess

312 pages, Informant Publishing, 2023