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Concept in chess
In chess, compensation is the typically short term positional advantages a player gains in exchange for typically disadvantage. Short term advantages involve initiative and .

A rook on the seventh rank (the opponent's second rank) is usually very powerful, as it threatens the opponent's unadvanced pawns and hems in the enemy king. A rook on the seventh rank is sufficient compensation for a pawn In this position from a game between Lev Polugaevsky and Larry Evans, the rook on the seventh rank enables White to draw, despite being a pawn down .

+ Spassky vs. Fischer, 1960
A famous 1960 game between future world champions Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer began with a King's Gambit opening. White sacrifices a pawn on his second move:
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5
reaching the position shown (first diagram). Fischer examines an alternate fifth move for Black:

5 h5 6. Bc4 Rh7 7. d4 d6 8. Nd3 f3 9. gxf3 Be7 10. Be3 Bxh4+ 11. Kd2 Bg5 12. f4 Bh6 13. Nc3
reaching the position shown (second diagram), where Fischer explains "White has more than enough compensation for the pawn."

Possession of the often yields long term compensation for sacrificed material.

An unbalanced position has arisen straight out of the opening, in which, with an open center, Black has a pawn and the for the exchange.

A relatively interesting middlegame has been reached. White is up the exchange, while Black is compensated by two active bishops forming a crisscross pattern.

sometimes give the defender drawing chances in the long run, even if the opponent has a material advantage of one or two pawns or even the exchange.