New Pin Theory, Black Redemption
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on Sun, 06/28/2009 at 1:36am.
I just completed my third game with my good friend sergio61 from Turin, Italy. He is a fine player and crushed my Sicilian Defense Pin Variation in our first game. He destroyed a line that I had played for over 30 years and sent me back to the drawing board. I used Chess.com, Fritz, and Chessmaster to look at several positions in the game for the necessary P.N. (Personal Novelty) in the Sam Musil opening repetoire. The improvement 10. .. Nc6 has been played before in the master database in a computer vs. computer game, so we do not have to argue about a T.N. (Theoretical Novelty), but it is a PN that leads to an even or slightly better game for black after just 21 moves. This game was part of a match between Team Italy and Team USA South Central where the USA team was behind 78 to 6 when I offered the draw before my move 21. Sergio accepted my draw offer because he claimed the game was even and he had too many other games to continue the hard fight against me.
Of course, I think that black is slightly ahead and sergio thinks that the game is even. I would have played on if this was a close match or a tournament game. At this time I am involved in 78 games at Chess.com and winning from sergio would take me at least 3 to 6 months of hard work, so we agreed to the draw. This is the latest theory in the main line of the Schoenmann Variation (7. Bd2) which was introduced by Wilhelm Schoenmann in the German Championship of 1935. Chess is supposed to be above politics, but Wilhelm does not get the credit that he deserves for introducing the line and
winning the inaugural game with it because it was played under the Nazi regime! This variation is still the most popular line chosen against the Pin Koch Variation, so the theory is important! The final position is very interesting and has a lot of play left in it!
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