Who needs material?
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on Fri, 09/18/2009 at 2:29pm.
For a long time I was a very materialistic player. In the early stages of my "chess career" nearly all of my games were won by the player who won the most material. But also later on, I always preferred a bunch of material over some vague positional advantage.
Lately I've drastically changed my style in that matter, also because I now include openings like the main line sicilians in my white repertoire. Sometimes this leads to embarassing games where I play some highly dubious sacrifice and end up with a losing position (say two pieces down), while sometimes this leads to interesting and fun games. Below is a game that falls in the latter category (else I wouldn't be posting it here ;)) with some annotations. Enjoy! :)
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