Sicilian Pin White Crush
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on Mon, 03/09/2009 at 10:27pm.
Since I joined Chess.com, I have completed 8 games against the Sicilian Pin Variation playing the white pieces. I have won 7 of the 8 games with one draw versus Marjan Lacic, who plays under the handle "lac." Marjan is a very strong master with a chess.com rating of 2652 today. I am still disappointed in allowing Marjan the draw since he played the Exchange Sac Extension to the Koch Variation. This gives white an early win of the exchange and is the ONLY DRAW that I have allowed with this variation in 35 years! I am trying to interest players in trying the Pin as a playable variation, so Marjan's victory works to aid that cause!
Many of these 8 completed games were in my two thematic tournaments in which I am playing 20 games with white: Sicilian Pin and Sicilian Pin Koch tournaments. This is one of my early wins in the Sicilian Pin tourney against a friend from Japan who always plays brand new lines against me to get me out of Chessbase. He does it again here with a piece sac at move 6 that wins the exchange by force! I feel that the game definitely explores new theoretical ground with a beautiful white win by force. Enjoy!