Playing black in round 5 against a veteran Russian player Arkadiy Ugodnikov, I employed my pet Sicilian Defense and he replied with Rossolimo Attack. This variation caused me many troubles in my blitz games as the presence of the light colored bishop on b5 has a disturbing psychological effect pinning my black Knight on c6. We played through the opening until we exchanged Queens in moved 13. The position was so imbalance as white has pawn majority on the Queen side and a power pawn on e5. White on this instance has the advantage until Arkadiy commit a big mistake on moved 18. Here, I punished him with a paralyzing pin brought by exchanged rook sacrifice. He took the bait and this game becomes one of my favorite wins - a concentration of all my guns on his poor pinned rook on d4. He succumbed to my pressure and white just commit blunder after blunder until he resigned on moved 25.
Arkadiy is my fourth 1900+ victim in this tournament. Play this game and enjoy the ride below.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
The Power of Pin
Arkadiy Ugodnikov vs Rulix Batistil
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