Sicilian French Normal
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on Sun, 05/24/2009 at 1:20am.
Recently, I have sponsored three thematic tournaments: Sicilian Pin, Sicilian Pin Koch, and Sicilian French Normal. I currently have 12 wins and 2 defeats in the Sicilian Pin Tourney and 11 wins, no defeats, and one draw in the Sicilian Pin Koch Tourney. I currently have 2 wins and no defeats or draws in the Sicilian French Normal Tourney which started on March 30, 2009. I have not analyzed many of these games because everyone is playing the same opening and I do not want to give these strong players too much help. However, in this game, one of the mid-range players in my Strongest Tournement Ever section, boylim from the Phillipines , plays what I consider to be the main line of the Sicilian French Normal Variation which no one has tried against me in the actual Sicilian French Normal Tourney. (Everyone is playing the Pin Variation or Four Knights Variation!) I introduced a technical novelty at move 7 that I could not find in any of my databases. For the first 6 moves, boylim played the main line of this variation which I have faced many times over the last 35 years. Then at move 7, he played Bg5 against me which I have never faced and which appears only twice in the master DB. The 7. .. Be7 game won for black and 7. .. Rb8 gained a draw. Obviously, Be7 is the safe move with black winning the stem game. However, I saw some weak white moves in the stem game and was suspicious of the position after Be7. So I boldly launched into new territory with a TN (Theoretical Novelty) of 7. .. d5 which looks ugly but gives black control of the center. It has not been played before at the master level, but here leads to a pretty mate for black! Enjoy!
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