Sicilian defence - you can laugh at my pathetic chess, studying in vain

You can look up my last game (or perhaps not even bother) and laugh the whole day at my pathetic play. Of course I broke my mouse again and this will be my third I have to buy because of my chess losses. So I thought it would be a great idea to study the Sicilian defense. All these guys were praising it that it is a surefire way to beat your opponents. Unfortunately, all of that only to lose in the most embarrassing way ever to a total newbie amateur, who does what? Throws f-ing pawns at me from both f-ing sides with his King in the middle! That opponent couldn't have played chess for more that two weeks judging by his pathetic play, what's even worse is my play is even more pathetic, but joke is on me because I am the one who actually put some time to studying the game. I should quit totally after this pathetic game, stop watching Nakamura and others, who only give me false hope because all roads lead to losing to these noobs, who play like me when I first installed Battle Chess as a kid.

Is there an opening for black that is safer to play and yet avoids the boring lines of the Italian where I just lose focus? I can't focus when the game gets so boring. But Sicilian, unfortunately, leads to what the 'genius' did to me the last game, so I don't know if there is an opening where a 4-year old kid doesn't steamroll me.

Caro I believe fits both of your prerequisite. The petroff is very safe but boring. I've seen your other posts on this man, why do you keep playing if it puts you through this much pain

Btw, I know my posts are probably annoying etc, but why is the Thread "Losing games due to my bad play" more popular and getting more attention? The guy says chess.com is rigged, it is due to bad luck etc. and I don't know in what way I am worse or more annoying. I have studied chess before and it should be apparent from my games, yet I lose to those lower level noobs. So perhaps more people can relate to that and discuss why I am losing etc. On the other hand, the guy seems a beginner who leaves his Queen hanging for 7 moves and that pretty much sums up why he is losing. I don't want to make fun of the guy, but I don't get why his thread is so popular compared to mine. Is he more funny or something?
I also started posting more because of his very Topic so I thought if this guy is so popular here, I can't be much worse. It must be his charisma or something, otherwise I don't know.

You had a great position out of the opening, completely winning after move 17. Losing the game has absolutely nothing to do with the opening, and everything to do with careless play in the middlegame. Changing the opening won't help that.

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Have you tried the Caro Kann defence? It's what I usually play. Admittedly, I'm getting a bit bored of the positions it leads to now and I want to try to learn the Sicilian. However, I'm told that it's best not to try the Sicilian unless you have 1800+ elo, because it's very complex.

The Caro Kann is relatively simple though, there aren't that many variations and it can be played against e4 or d4

Told by who?

That's questionable advice at best.

There's no reason not to try it if you want to. If you watch a couple of videos, you'll probably know more than any opponent.

your opponent wasnt a newbie he had 2000 games

Re: the sicilian - I'm going to try it. I follow Levy Rozman (gothamchess) who advises against lower elo players trying to learn the sicilian, due to the complexity of the position and the number of variations. Certainly, I still haven't yet mastered the Caro kann or French defence. But I think I'll give the sicilian a try anyway.

haha

Levy Rozman... that explains it. Facepalm.

You don't have to master an opening to play it at the 1000 rating level (or 2000, for that matter). Mastering an opening would take weeks for a GM and 100 lifetimes for a player rated 1000.

and a hour for a tate disciple like me

What's a "tate disciple"? A pimp trainee?

yes a pimp who can master every opening in seconds,i watchd magnus play one move telepathically absorbed all his opening knowledge

The frustration is understandable.

But honestly, fending off kingside pawnstorm attacks can be quite tricky, especially if you aren't used to defending them.

The general advice, once an opponent starts an attack on the wing, is to respond in the center. In the Sicilian, this usually (not always, but often) means playing one of your central pawns to the center (d6 to d5, or e6 to e5). Or, if that doesn't work, then using piece play in the center. If either of those doesn't work, then perhaps defending on the wing would be your last resort.

So let's look at the game to see how this approach might help:

So here, White is clearly eyeing g4-g5, to dislodge your knight. We could play ...h6 to temporarily defend against that, but White has already shown that he wants to pawnstorm your kingside, so opening it up more isn't really the best idea.

What we should do is play in the center with a pawn, while simultaneously giving our knight options to move away if needed.

For that reason, I'd recommend moving the d pawn here, either to d6 or to d5.

Let's look at d5 first, since it directly attacks the center:

Here, White is probably going to do one of two things: move his e pawn, or move his g-pawn.

Let's say he continues his g-pawn idea:

The center has been liquidated and White's kingside is airy and less safe. Black has a clear plan to put a rook on d8 and perhaps a bishop to a6 and, well ... Black's pretty much calling all the shots.

Now let's see if White plays his e-pawn forward, instead:

Here Black obviously has to move his knight, but to where? There are actually two good options: to e4 again (it's protected by the d5 pawn), or to e8 to reroute.

Either of these would work. For example:

As you can see, the center issues have clarified and Black is left with some nice attacking threats.

Or:

This is a more advanced idea but might be something you'd like to learn from. In kingside fianchetto positions, if the opponent advances his e-pawn to e5, you can move your knight away and attack the pawn with f6. I'll leave it up to you to figure out how the game might continue from there.

In either case, playing pawn to ...d5 in this instance would have dealt with your opponent's kingside pawnstorm attack ... and would have saved you a lot of headache.

Hope any of that is helpful.

The Sicilian is powerful, but it's also complex. If you're not comfortable with the pawn structures and middlegame ideas, it can backfire.

my friend uses the Sicilian to great effect, and he is only 1000 in rapid and 800 in blitz. I still beat him regularly because I am better at middlegames and endgames, but it is a good opening and I am learning it now. It is a good to know, but don't learn it if you don't want to think harder. it is extremely complex, and that doesn't mean you can't learn it, just be prepared to spend a little longer than usual practicing it and make sure you know it well before trying it.