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Sicilian: White exchanges minor piece for Black's a+b pawns

@Mahith1708 It is not about engines. White played it too simplistic. For example I would have preferred 7.c4. And instead of Bxh6 I would have considered Bf4 or Bg5. The Nh6 is not so well placed, why exchange it against that nice bishop. Black already has some problems, eg the pawn h5 and the weak black squares. No need to hurry.
@selfbrain
I play for Fun. If this is an OTB rated game, I will play the simplest way to win. I share this game to encourage Fun and Adventure spirit in Online Chess.
There's a huuugeee difference between Tal's deep sacrifices and easily refuted piece sacs that just don't work.

You can't say "GMs make bad moves and win" as justification for playing bad chess. 90% of the time your opponent plays anything but the obvious blunder he played and you lose.

You can cherrypick what games to talk about and say "see look I sacced badly but still won" but that doesn't change the fact that 99% of the time you're not going to draw a royal flush and you're going to be walking away with nothing.

You can still play exciting chess without throwing games away for literally no reason.

I say this because this is one of the top things I see holding players back.

Just because I move has an idea you've see before doesn't mean it works everytime.

You're not going to improve if you're trying to justify your bad moves. That's just not being objective.

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