Intentionally Sacrificing the queen

Hi....I was just wandering if any of you employ this tactic of intentionally sacrificing the queen early in the game to throw off an opponent......and have you tried to do that on successive games to try and come up with best defenses with no queen. Let me know .

It is a famous meme of Inernational Master Eric Rosen,
but not really early:
"Oh No My Queen; Sacrifice your Queen for mate"

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/what-is-your-rosen-score/PuSIsIum

https://rosen-score.vercel.app/

Example game:

My game:

@Benyam_Alem said ^

Hi....I was just wandering if any of you employ this tactic of intentionally sacrificing the queen early in the game to throw off an opponent......and have you tried to do that on successive games to try and come up with best defenses with no queen. Let me know .

Hi, yes. In this game I won by queen sacrifice. If my opponent took the queen I could play Bxf7#

@fin34601473braunpaul said ^

It is a famous meme of Inernational Master Eric Rosen,
but not really early:
"Oh No My Queen; Sacrifice your Queen for mate"

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/what-is-your-rosen-score/PuSIsIum

https://rosen-score.vercel.app/

Example game:

https://lichess.org/heNcmap1#39

My game:

https://lichess.org/s8p6cbvt/black#22

You were not sacrificed the queen just you lost your queen. If your opponent played any other moves, probably you were losing.

You were not sacrificed the queen just you lost your queen.
If your opponent played any other moves, probably you were losing.

@ParhamSepehrikia1390 Don't tell that to the Rosen Score tracker. ;-)

@fin34601473braunpaul said ^

It is a famous meme of Inernational Master Eric Rosen,
but not really early:
"Oh No My Queen; Sacrifice your Queen for mate"

Wow that eruc risen play was devious and funny at the same time.

@ParhamSepehrikia1390

Your queen "sacrifice" is actually a textbook tactic.

Plenty of classical OTB games where one side gives up the queen for insufficient material and long-term compensation.
Like Spassky v Bronstein, candidates 1956 where black had two minor pieces for the queen. You can find games in Korchnoi's and Larsen's game collections - Korchnoi against Filip and Larsen I believe against Ivkov. And there are modern examples with the benefit of engine preparation like Poh v Navara where white won with R+N against Q.

@Benyam_Alem said ^

Hi....I was just wandering if any of you employ this tactic of intentionally sacrificing the queen early in the game to throw off an opponent......and have you tried to do that on successive games to try and come up with best defenses with no queen. Let me know .

I have never intentionally sacrificed my Queen early in the game, but I have had several bullet games where I pre-moved my opening to fast & hung my Queen near the start; fought on and won. Here is a game I was pre-moving my opening and on move 5 my opponent played 5. Bg5, not expecting this dubious move I pre-moved 5... a6 then lost my Queen. I fought on and won the game by back rank checkmating my opponent.