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Catching Up A few issues back, we asked you to send in examples of how you used a pin as a winning tactic in one of
your games. We didn’t get any responses! But we did 22 April 2016
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get this neat game from 12-year-old Carlos de Leon of Texas. Never give up! Sometimes a blunder isn’t a blunder at all.
French Defense, Advance Variation White: Carlos de Leon (1571) Black: Jonathan Wilson (1770)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 Bd7 7. Bc2 cxd4 8. cxd4 Nge7 9. 0-0 Rc8 I’ve played this position many
times before, and I’m comfortable with it. 10. a3 Ng6 11. Nc3 Be7 12. Re1 0-0 13. Qd3 Rfd8 14. h4 My plan was to advance the h-
pawn and move his knight back to f8 14. … Nf8 15. h5 I still moved the pawn to h5 so if
he moved to g6, I would go to h6. I think that I’m better at this point
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