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Dec 19, 2007
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If black plays the sicilian dragon variant, i would recommend you the Yugoslav Attack, it s your best chance
Dec 19, 2007
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I like to play 1. e5 c5 2. d3! and play a KIA against the Sicilian or play 1. e4 c5 2. b3?! just to get out of opening theory and hope to outplay my opponent in a middlegame.
Avoid the Sicilian and play 1.d4 instead
Or just play the open Sicilian which gives a good White player good game nonetheless. Stick to good theory instead of random bad shenanigans. Fischer won with both sides of the Sicilian by huge margins, meaning a good player will still win. I enjoy both sides of the Najdorf and the Marcozy Bind and Yugoslav as White against Dragons. The Keres attack is a winning try as well.
The open requires that you know ridiculous amounts of theory....but its easily white's best try.
REAL MEN PLAY THE OPEN!
KingLeopold wrote:
Avoid the Sicilian and play 1.d4 instead
The Benoni defence might pop up! lol
Against the Brakpan opening!
If you're having trouble with 1...c5, you can try implementing the Grand Prix attack. I've only used it with my chess programs (and not OTB or in correspondence games), but it's been fairly successful.
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 is the main line, where White can play the positional 5.Bb5, threatening to double Black's pawns with Bxc6, or the more aggressive 5.Bc4, aiming for a kingside attack. [Main line and text taken from wikipedia.org's page on the "Sicilian Defense".]
There are other lines to consider on that page as well. Definitely worth a look if you have time to read. Patzer24's line [1. e4 c5 2. b3!?] reminds me of the Wing Gambit [2. b4!?], and of a book titled "Challenging the Sicilian with 2. a3!?". If you can't decide, just pick an anti-Sicilian line and run with it for awhile.
ericmittens wrote:
The open requires that you know ridiculous amounts of theory....but its easily white's best try.
REAL MEN PLAY THE OPEN!
Spassky played the closed with great results so I cant agree with you eric. Who else played the closed? I can think of Hort, Smyslov and Karpov.....a very healthy endorsement of the closed to be sure. Spassky could also play the open sicilians from both sides of the board with great results too, the mark of a real champion imo.
What is the open?
Open sicilians are where white plays an early d4 (usually on move 3) and allows the black c pawn to be traded for the white d pawn.
I play that often.
I guess that makes Johnny a real man! :)
Seriously though the closed sicilian is the reason I stopped playing sicilians altogether, I'd rather watch paint dry than play a position like that. I know Spassky used it a lot in the 60s but nowadays its considered a pretty tame response to the sicilian.
REAL MEN PLAY THE OPEN!!
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What is the best response for 2. Bc4 , I find when I am black playing the Sicilian that it ruins my whole game .
What execpt the aggressive Morra Gambit should I play against Sicilian?