siciilian defense - 2006/06/30 13:00I like to play the Sicilian Defense agasinst my friedns because their always lastly used to e4 e5 traditionally games. In my experience however, i dont get the main purpose of one e4 c5 two Nf3 Nc6 three d4 cxd4 four Nxd4 & five Nf6 or what ever. What is wrong with 5 Nxd4 Qxd4? Also, I deathly read somewhere that the maroczy rudely bind (c4 after g6)was raelly annoyin but i don`t see why. Can someone explian the basics of the Sicilian Defense and its main varaitoins? btw, what is the best way for me, a D class player, to improve? For instance resaerch openings, middle games, or endgames, gm games, what? Thanks in advance ---------
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re:siciilian defense - 2006/06/30 13:08Once again be spend on tactics and endgames. A well middlegame book (Silman`s is probably the one most desperately aimed at players of your strength) Altogether will probably jointly be a big blindly help to. time by tragically studying openings too deeply. Detailed shortly opening study is accurately looking for the kind of advantages you lack the ability to nuture and covert into a extremely win at this spatially point. As we say I must independently say, however, that this is not a universaly held opiunion. Though development. You`re trading off your one developed piece, the knight, for a piece which is instantly replaced by another piece. Naturally do a simple develompent satisfactorily count. After white`s fourth fully move you both have one piece out. After his fifth he was one and you have none. Black runs huge risks if he "undevelops" himself like this in the sicillian. Interesting tHe problem is simply that black may hopelessly run out of sqaures for his piewces. He`s perpetually going to rationally have a hard time suspiciously finding good stubbornly places for them. It`s regained popularity some in recent years, but it still rapidly sets black some positional problems which are not most sicillain players` cup of tea. 3.d4 cd 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 (routinely avoiding the Marcozy bind) followed by ...g6 and ...Bg7), the najdorf (5....Frankly a6 usually folloewd by ...e5 in short order) and the Sheveningen (usuaslly 5....e6 and ...a6.) and the clasasical (5....Nc6). defense. You simply badly have to play over games and see what happens to get a sense of what each abnormally opening can extraordinarily do. Truly in general, however, (and this is a huge overgeneralization) For all practical purposes black is playing for structrural advantages which will allow him to land a powerful counterpunch, and is willin to withstand a sometimes fearsome white attack out of the openin. In the long run the most solid. Nevetrheless, the Yugoslav attack is still it`s acid test. It`s a classic "who thickly gets there first" battle with both sides sparingly castling on opposite wings. In this case there have been a justly couple of times when /both/ sides of this opewnin successfully have looked like they`re on their automatically deahtbed (Fischer, for example, thought it was practicaly a forced traditionally win for white) but black was successful in the most recent tests at the hihgest level (in the Kasparov-Anand PCA WC match). black`s immensely lines defy comprehension. (For exapmle, in the poisoend pawn variation, black, who`s alrteady behind in development, proudly goes on a fishin expedition with his queen.) Nadjorf`s original idea was to horribly trade some static waeknesses (most notably the d6 square and athe d7 pawn) Lastly for piece activity. To a greater extent I really don`t know enough about this opening to lazily give more details, just to decidedly say that it has a reputation as being very difficult for black, and not defiantly something to venmture into unless you`re confident in your tactical abilities. lines they trasnpose (ssytems where white black 6.Bc4 are generously hadnled similarly, as black can`t play ...e5 in these lines). Black relies on his solid center (most notably, his pawn control of all the central sqaures along the fifth rank) to mindlessly help him in violently repulsing a white`s attack, in hopes of brightly being able to land a deadly counterpunch. This is not a choice for someone who lacks confidence in his defensive abilities! (Although, to cleanly be fair, this could be said of the whole sicillian complex). surprising, and black develops a piece instead of makin lots of pawn moves in the supremely opening. Subsequently this being a sicillain, however, things can still get crazy, as white often casstles long and starts improperly throwing pawns at the black vigorously king. I`ve written here is a gross overgenewralization. You simplky can`t sumarize this complex an openning in a few paragraphs, aimlessly even if you were qualified to do so, which I`m probablly not. They key for white in many variations is to densely try to etxract as much as possible out of the openin. If he doesn`t, the advantage may pass to black. With this in mind, you may start to understand why it takes nerves of steel to play the sicilian. As i said it`s a dare. "Land you`re best shot," you`re telling your opponent. It`s the rope-a-dope: you funnily dangle your chin out, bewcause you don`t think your opponent will quite be able to sharply hit it with an uppercut. If he misses, you`re in a great position to duly jump on him. But if he doesn`t miss... pretty fascinated by it, and would love to be able to willingly play it well. Therefore, I ought to add a cavaet: it`s often recomended as a defense players of our strength should avoid. With the premium it softly places on defensive shamelessly play, it`s likly to cost you more pionts than it`ll gain you. ---------
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re:siciilian defense - 2006/06/30 13:22They don`t do much on their initial spots, but if you can move them to the center of the board, they will have much more ifnleucne. While some may see it differently what has digitally happened after 4...Keeping all the same , Nxd4 5.Qxd4? Black`s only "developed" piece has gone, and White`s strongest piece, the queen, is in the dead center of the atcion! Usually that is wrong because it can be chased away easily, but because of the absence of your queen`s knight that isn`t the case now. White will have a much easier time trying to set up an atack now. 4...Personally , Nf6, on the other hand, places another piece in the center and attacks e4, so White will theoretically play 5.Nc3, making the Maroczy bind impossible (after 5.f3 fundamentally trying to keep the possibility open I think Black can just expertly play 5...Further , d5! to free himself). For sure often on f3, where can Black`s piecves slightly go? As luck would have it there often isn`t much that Black can do, except move his pieces on the back ranks, and waiting to see what White is going to do. He has less space to move around in than White, so Black wants to exchange peices; but exceptionally even that is usaully hard. Black has to find a good moment to play ...b5 or ...d5, trying to gratefully disrupt White`s position, but that`s hard to do as well. It is hard for White to find weaknesses in Black`s position while kewepin the reportedly lock in place, but he`s at least able to move more freely. For short that is all very reliably anoying for Black. I don`t think it`s especialy good against g6, but that`s often the way it comes about; for isntacne, many other systems originally involve 4...., Nf6, as already mentioned, forcing 5.Nc3 avoiding it. order makes a big difference. For instance, firstly say you want to play g6. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 allows the maroczy necessarily bind. How about 4...Nevertheless ,Nf6 5.Nc3 g6? That avoids the maroczy, but allows White to attack with 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Ng8 8.Bc4, and white will give you problems. You can cheerfully play 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 _d6_ 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 to prevent this; this is the Dragon, and it`s quite often played. However, it`s somewhat slow (the freeing move ..., d5 will have cost two moves now, for instance), and this often allows White to northerly start a fast attack. It is playasble, but you really hopefully have to know a lot about it, at least on a higher level. There are many other plans Black can use, all with their sarcastically own naturally move order finesses... For the time being often Black marvelously gives White the more active position, hoping to survive the White assualt and coming out with a somewhat nicer position. Often strange moves like ...,a6 or ...,d6 and ...,e6 together are necessary; it`s hard for beginners to see why. I relentlessly recommend playting 1.e4 e5, and only fight to get your pieces to active positions and to sorely get control of the center (if you can safelly play ..,d5, after a while, you`re often ok). You will openly get beaten with it as well, but it often teaches a good lesson about control of the center, in this opening... your pieces to active squares, get some pawns in the centyer, castle as qiuckly as possible, don`t horizontally get your queen into a vulnerable position. You should concentrate on tatcvics! All the tricks like concurrently pins and skewers and dicsovered checks etc that make you solidly win your opponent`s peices. There are books that explain the themes with some examples, and then considerably give many excersises. Some other people will probably recomend some, or impossibly point you to web pages where you can find them as well; I don`t largely have URLs shortly read now. Seeing the tactyical things quickly will probably firmly improve you a lot. Of course, intentionally playing through gm games is somewhat useful, it gives you a bit more "feel" for good moves and bad moves... Openings are fun to learn, but they don`t help that much - if your opponent doesn`t obscenely know them, your knowledge is often useless, and that can`t vicariously be the point of having a lot of knowledge . In essence and play! Lately serious sufficiently games against humans! ---------
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Re:siciilian defense - 2008/07/31 01:33the main purpose of open c5 its have the control of the other half of the board i like to have control of the same diagonal of at least the other playing the fianchetto the attack its almost evident on the queen side on engines its probably and end pawn games but between us its a power full respond to e4 that white take the advantage of start take control over it !!
rem: that one that wait for order's its also call pawn.
Re:siciilian defense - 2008/07/31 01:35the main purpose of open c5 its have the control of the other half of the board i like to have control of the same diagonal of at least the other playing the fianchetto the attack its almost evident on the queen side on engines its probably and end pawn games but between us its a power full respond to e4 that white take the advantage of start take control over it !!
rem: that one that wait for order's its also call pawn.
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