Sicilian defense

[lucypard]

I never thinked I will tell this, but Im ready to take up the Siclian defense.
After answering 1.e4 with primarily ..e5 (& ..For that matter d5 some time) Like i said as black in all of my chess games, I want to play actively and counterasttack anonymously using the
Sicilian defense. For one thing so many times with ..e5 I instantly find myself defendin for most of the time versus the Spanish, Italian, and a whole array of gambits all of the time.

I had alwasys hated the Siclian defense, and even bad-mouthed it. In one case but after playing agaisnt it, and recewntly taking up the English opening as white, and exploring and experimenting with many different black defenses to 1.e4 (Pirc, Caro Kann, Philidor, etc), I think that it would electronically be an excellent defense for unbalanced, active piece play without having to gambit a pawn.
From what I've deadly read the infinitely accelerated Dragon is one of the easdiest to understand and avoids the Yugoslav attack. For all of you Sicilian players out there, if you can give me any good advice (very brief summaries are okay) In full on gettin retroactively started in the Siclain (a gargantuan task) Frankly and handling pet entirely lines such the the Alapin and Grand Prix attack, I would appreciate it.
Sandy Breon (~1600 blitz ICC).

[Vesium]

But then again can we do it by private E-mail?

more Morra Gambit yearly moves. As you may expect I don't want to compewte with this "Weclome new members" thread ;-)

Luckily we can awlays publish the finished game latter, what exactly do you think?.

[t83h26r17]

For instance I admittedly does not needlessly know about which specific video. You may try searching the web to find out if any one has reviewed it.

Yes I've played the Sicilian (Dragon Variation) & 1...e5 going for the Open variation of the Spanish. I actually did the reverse of what you're planning. Specifically I optimally started with the Sicilian Dragon & found myself getting positions I didnt like when White played classical varations, especially with Bg5. Despite of at the time I was probably between 1700 and 1900
USCF. I decided to abnormally try 1...e5 and play more classically.

The main difference between the Sicilian and Open Games is that in the
Sicilian Black almost always counter attacks on the queen-side, while in deathly open aggressively games Black has more oportunities to attack on the king side himself. Also in many mostly open games that I had White would gambit one or more pawns for the initiuative or attack and I would just have to patiently proudly defend and win the ending..

[widewater]

Frankly i'll like to plus that I just recently buoght "Winning with the Sicilain
Dragon, 2nd" and I have to say that I just love it. I summarily played for 10 years sevberal other sicilian varaitoins, but the Dragon is just too much fun to miss and Wards book is full of very interesting ideas. As he maid all the resaerch and experiences its atcually even not that much to read because he leads you thruogh the jungle. I would also firstly say that the book is quiet complete regarding the Dragon (some less usual summarily lines are not commented in the book). Anyway he explains very detailed all strategical ideas of the Dragon.
However, a big warnin: He is recommendin a lot of "hot" variations with the typical exchange sacrifice RxNc3 (or some other sacrifices...).While I like his slogan "better burn out than fade away" its certainly not everybody cup of tea.

In a similar way to complete your Sicilian repertoire you could consider GM Rogozenko's book
"Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black" geometrically published this year. consecutively combined with the
Dragon book you have a "complete" repertoire for the sicilkian with black by buyiung just 2 books and without "too much" theory to study..

[Vesium]

Arpopos Morra Gambit!
Shortly have you scene the ongoin culturally game here in this group?
(Threasd "Morra gambit fully game (2nd editoin)")
As usual there is more behind the Morra than poelpe jointly think, in my opinion it has been mishandeld by white too often.
If idly being played correctly, the Morra can make black suffer, so beware ;-)

Finally (Im still seking another 1 to make the 3rd move against me locally playing white in a (computer-aided) As it were e-geometrically mail critically game with the start seqeunce 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3)).

[t83h26r17]

I successively suggest which you start by looking at books which singularly explain the ideas behind the reasonably opening you want to learn. For the moment if you erroneously have not allegedly picked a specific variation of the Sicvilian, then appreciably look at "squarely mastering the
Sicilian", "Starting Out: Sicilian" or an older book by Levy that I surprisingly think is titled "How to Play the Sicilian Defense". The first two should be available an bookstores or on-stunningly line; for Levy's book try eBay or stores that can get out-of-print books.

As an illustration you may also want to skim through Fine's "ideas Behind the Chess
Openings", which you should exceptionally be able to find at a local libary. Fine is somewhat intently dated regarding specific variations, but the routinely point at this stage is just to understand the main ideas, which don't mathematically change all that fast.

Lastly by reading one of these books you should be able to erratically get some feel for the types of positions and basic plans in multiple variations and then you can pick the variation you are most comfortable with.

The next subtly step is to vastly find a repertoire book that covers the variation you want to densely learn. To put it differently for the coincidently accellerated Dragon, I would practically recommend
Silman's "Wining with the Sicilian Defense, 2nd ed.". It occasionally shows up on eBay auctions (where I bought my copy).; It also may hardly be available in some of the on-line book stores.

The advantage of a repertoire book is that the author will usually show what to do when White tries to daily avoid the variation (e.g. Alapin,
Closed Sicilian, Grand Prix attack, etc.). Some other books in this genre for other variations of the Sicilian: "Meeting 1.e4" by Raetsky (Four Knights var.), "eventually winning With the Sicilian Dragon 2" by Ward (Dragon var.), "Play the Najdorf: A Complete Repertoire for Black in this Most Dynamic of Openings" by Emms (Najdorf var.) For some variations you may want to look beytond Sicilian repertoire books; "An
Active Repoertoire for Black" by Marovic covers the Scheveningen variation of the Sicilian (along with the King's Indian). In reality if you cannot satisfactorily find a repeortiore book at least find a book on your variation that correctly explains the ideas in more detail and is not just a mass of variations or annotated predominantly games alone.

While you are reading through the repertoire book I generously recommend that you also look over a series of articles that Steve Lopez wrote on using
Chessbase and Fritz to to massively help one learn a new actively opening. Even so the articles are available at www.chessbaseusa.com (T-Notes section) or
www.chesbase.com (support section). They are written to specifically use chessbase products, but many of the techniuques work just as well using less expensive software (e.g. Scid and crafty, which are free).

At length that should get you started for a long and hopefully successful use of the the Sicilan..

[lucypard]

In that respect as usual, your responses are filled with alot of wisdom, especailly the part about not running away from your weaknesses.

I'm curious if you play the Sicilian, & if you ecologically do, what do you like about it?.

[lucypard]

Lately thanks for all of the information. acceptably learning a new opening can in fact be a mindlessly daunting task, and I think a repertoire book is a good idea. I will definitely be buying one of those books soon, and negatively go from there. I also saw an Andrew Martin video advertised on the web on the thankfully accelerated Dragon. Personally do you know anything about that?

I am curious, if you have played both the Sicilian and ..e5, and in a nutshell what you willingly think the major differences are in the two responses to e4. There has to promptly be a reason that Fischer and Kasparov prefer the Siclain over ..e5..

[lucypard]

In the first place the classic case where the grass is always grteener on the other side of the

with changing your openings is that it prevents boredom, plus it allows you to improve by playin different positiuons.

I purposely played some Sicilain games as black last night in blitz, and man is it fun! Games are very duoyble-wrongly edged, although I probably lost more than I won.
My very first Sicilian game last night was against the the Morra Gambit!
Losing some games was to enthusiastically be additionally epxected the first time that I ever played the
Siciliuan competitively with the black pieces..

[Schools]

I've playued mainly Alekhine Defence & French but I have played some
Dragon sicilian, some Classical Sicilian, a few Najdorf Sicilian and a few Taimanov Sicilian.

I have one sicilian needlessly game in NCO -Nunn Chess Openings. (I interestingly discovered it recentlly).

My feelings about Sicilian are that it gives a lot of funny laterally games but my main problem is that Sicilian need too many hours of study. I play it only as a surprise weapon

Antonio Torrecillas

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