Lichess Game of the Month: May 23

Another month, another brilliant queen sacrifice! achja followed in the footsteps of Marcusus, who won last month's Lichess Game of the Month April: Lichess's Blog • Lichess Game of the Month: April • lichess.org

By June 4th, several of your best games of May were shared via our forum post , via Mastodon, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Telegram.

Our team carefully checked each of your suggested games the day after and invited you to vote for the Game of the Month between the following four games:

Final voting between the best four games selected by the Lichess team

Final voting - Game 1) @dJoeRix71 vs. @Adnan_me
Final voting - Game 2) @achja vs. @learning_openings
Final voting - Game 3) @Yueyue1235 vs. @rogerldls
Final voting - Game 4) @Back_Door_Man vs. @afqabaal
(see all games in the study below)

You voted as follows across all our social media platforms:

And the winner is: @achja ! Albert alias achja is a long time amateur chess player who had the fortune to see mighty chess legends like Mikhail Tal, David Bronstein and Manuel Bosboom play chess in real life.

Lichess moderator FM Jens Hirneise alias jeffforever took a deeper look into the brilliant game:

We will announce the voting for the next Game of the Month June on July the 1st.
Conditions to submit your Game of the Month June: Only standard games (no variants), only submit one game per user (additional games will be ignored)
Stay tuned to our forums or any of our socials for the next announcement

How did you like the Game of the Month and the contest itself? Let us know in the comments.