Rooks and Exchange Sacrifices (Part 2)

Resembling a castle, Rooks love open files, ranks and the right placement of the rooks helps chess players to attack their opponents and cover critical squares but they can also be traded for minor pieces (Exchange sacrifice) for strategic play, opening up lines against enemy king removing defenders and also for positional play, stopping opponent's threats and so on. The knowledge of this ideas might help you to form plans ,and to give exchange sacrifices .As the first part wanted to show exchange sacrifices against knights. It's time for bishops and some puzzles.

While attending FIDE trainers' seminar in 2018(Kathmandu).I came across this game  played by Alexander Grishchuk whose. concept was hard to gasp at that time, but now  my understanding has gotten better. 

White has achieved following things as compensation for his exchange sacrifice:
1. Destroyed Black’s pawn structure.
2. The bishop pair.
3. Potential pressure along the e-file and the e6-weakness

Game:1

When I was looking for similar games, I found that Grishchuk might have found inspiration from these games played by Tal. 

The open file and pass pawn creation.]

I played a game ,where my opponent had to give an exchange sacrifice  with similar  ideas discussed above. The knowledge of Kaprov's  24.Ba7  also helped which is also include as a reference game.

Double exchange sacrifices are rare but they have different aurora to them. World champion Botvinnik showed how dangerous it could it be.

Bareev used the similar concept of the following game. Hope you can find it.

Tigran Petrosian was the ninth world chess champion (1963-1969) and is also known for positional exchange sacrifice. The next position has been published several times in puzzles book. Hopefully you can find the moves.

And the next iconic move speak volumes about exchange sacrifices.

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