No matter how experienced and sophisticated a chess player may be, he is always thrilled by a queen sacrifice. This is understandable, for the queen is far and away the strongest of all the chess forces.
Precisely because the queen is so powerful, the sacrifice of the piece must necessarily bring in substantial returns. Mate in usually the sequel of queen sacrifice. Let us explain this with an example. See the given diagram. Here White offers the queen in a manner which is surprisingly but hardly generous. He threatens mate, and when the queen id captured, he mates just the same. Still, such a sacrifice deserves our praise, for it take real imagination to see the possibilities in such a position.
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