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| Feb-28-06 | | hamworld: here's a currenth email game of mine (still playing)I'm white 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Bc4 is anything wrong with this move? |
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Feb-28-06
 | | WannaBe: <hamworld> You're moves are still quite well within 'books'. |
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| May-27-06 | | DeepBlade: [Event "Clubkampioenschap"]
[Site "OTB"]
[White "Clement"]
[Black "Harm"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. d3 g6 4. Be2 Bg7 5. h4 h5 6. Be3 d6 7. Qd2 Bd7 8. f4 Nf6
9. Nf3 Ng4 10. Bg1 Qa5 11. d4 cxd4 12. Nxd4 O-O 13. Nb3 Qd8 14. O-O-O a6 15. e5
Ncxe5 16. Kb1 Nc6 17. Nd5 b5 18. Nb6 Rb8 19. Nxd7 Qxd7 20. Nc5 Qc8 21. Bxg4
Qxg4 22. Nxa6 Ra8 23. Nc7 Ra4 24. Be3 Rc8 25. Nd5 Rca8 26. a3 Rxa3 27. bxa3
Rxa3 28. c3 e6 29. Qb2 Qf5+ 30. Kc1 b4 31. Qb1 Qg4 32. Bd4 Nxd4 33. Ne7+ Kh7
34. cxd4 Rc3+ 0-1
A great game, improvements and suggestions are appreciated! |
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| Aug-29-06 | | Helloween: 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nge2 g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nxc6 bxc6 8.e5 Ng8 9.f4 f6 10.Bd4 Qa5 11.Qd2 fxe5 12.fxe5 c5 13.Be3 Bxe5 14.Bc4 Nf6 15.O-O Ba6 16.Bf7+!?N(an attacking novelty, varying from Kasparov-Ivanchuk Praha Rapid 2002) 
click for larger view 16...Kd8! 17.Rf2 Rb8 18.Bf4 Bxf4 19.Rxf4 Rxb2 20.Rd1 Qc7 21.Ne4 Rf8!!(a tremendous defensive forsight, not allowing the forced sequence 21...Nxe4 22.Rxe4 Rf8 23.Qc3! Qb7 24.Ree1 Rxf7 25.Qh8+ Kc7 26.Qe8 with crushing compensation - see diagram) 
click for larger view22.Nxf6 exf6 23.Rxf6 Kc8 24.Qg5 Rb6 25.Rf2 Kb8 26.Qe7 Rd8 27. Bd5 Bb7 28.Bxb7 Kxb7 29.Qxh7 c4 30.c3 Re6 31.Qh4 d5 32.Rf7 Rd7 33. Rxd7 Qxd7 34.Qg5 Kc6 35.a4 Qd6 36.Rf1(draw offered by White) 36...Qe5 37.Qxe5 Rxe5 38.Rf6+ Kc5 39.Kf2 d4 Black has held off the White attack and survived into a favorable Rook ending, which, as was later agreed by both players and proven by analysis, could have been drawn by White) 
click for larger view 40.cxd4+ Kxd4 41.Rd6+ Kc5 42.Rxg6 c3 43.Rg7 Kb4 44.Rb7+ Ka3 45.Rc7 Kb2 46.Rb7+ Kc1 47.Rxa7 Rc5 48.g4 c2 49.Re7 Kd2 50.Re2+ Kd3 51.Re1 c1=Q 52.Rxc1 Rxc1 53.Kf3 Rf1+ 54.Kg2 Rf4 55.Kg3 Ke4 56.g5 Kf5 0-1 |
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| Aug-29-06 | | Helloween: The above post is a correspondence game between a good correspondence player as White and myself(as Black), played last year. The game probably transposes into a B34 accelerated Dragon, although it starts off as a Closed Sicilian. |
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| Dec-04-06 | | duffer: Anybody own The Grand Prix Attack by Plaskett? Good book? |
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Apr-07-07
 | | notyetagm: <Closed Sicilian Expert> In the typical position that arises after g3-g4 f7-f5!, creating White e4-, f4-, and g4-pawns versus Black e6-, f5-, and g6-pawns, what is the proper way for Black to recapture after White takes the Black f5-pawn with e4xf5 ? With g4xf5 ? Thanks.
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| Aug-18-07 | | pawnofdoom: One of the few "good" openings where black actually has a higher winning percentage than white in this database. But I play this anyway. It leads to pretty cool positions |
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| Nov-14-07 | | ViaArete: Has anyone explored a Queen-side fianchetto for white? It looks interesting to me, and would support a pawn push to e5, especially in the Grand Prix Attack. |
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May-30-08
 | | KingG: <notyetagm> <In the typical position that arises after g3-g4 f7-f5!, creating White e4-, f4-, and g4-pawns versus Black e6-, f5-, and g6-pawns, what is the proper way for Black to recapture after White takes the Black f5-pawn with e4xf5 ? With g4xf5 ?> You should always look at the concrete factors of course, but it seems to me that in general it's preferable to take back with the g-pawn to avoid a weakness on d5. |
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| Jun-29-08 | | sentriclecub: What does someone think about playing 3...e5 against 1. e4...c5 2. Nf3...d6 3. Nc3
click for larger viewI read in a fairly old book "why transpose into your favorite variation and hope white allows it?--punish his innacurate sequence. d4 comes before Nc3, and the reason is 3...e5!" And it says 3...Nf6 just lets white back onto the main lines of the sicilian. The book was "Chess Openings, analytically defined". A very dry book, but it uses those theory tables. |
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| Jul-11-08 | | jon01: I am currently reading Richard Palliser's "Starting Out - Closed Sicilian" released in 2006. This is rather new book, but I think it can be very useful. |
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| Jan-02-09 | | FrogC: I play the Closed and think it's a good way to deal with the Sicilian, attacking without being too wild, and easy to understand. But I have problems sometimes when opponents play Nf6 and Be7 against me. The books say both are bad - the knight can be chased away by White's pawn storm, and the bishop would have more scope on the long diagonal. But I find the position hard to break down. By the time my pawn storm arrives, the knight has generally flitted off to the queenside via d7, while the bishop on e7 proves a useful defender. Has anyone got any ideas? |
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| Jan-02-09 | | MaxxLange: <sentricleclub> That pawn structure is OK against the Closed Sicilian, but I wouldn't play it on move 3 there. I'd play Nc6 You can aim for the reversed English "Botvinnik System" with the center pawns as in your diagram, Nc6, g6, Bg7, Nge7, and 0-0. Then eventually Be6 and maybe Qd7, maybe Rb8 playing for b5 lever, or preparing play in the center, or preparing f5. It's a decent Black system to learn against English or 1 Nf3 stuff, too. |
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Oct-14-09
 | | refutor: any thoughts on 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5? after 3. ...Ne4 4.Bc4 it's not your typical sicilian i want to play the grand prix against everyone but i find 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 et al to be strong for black and 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 e6 with ...Nge7, ...d5 etc to be good for black as well...nothing to attack without a ...g6 thoughts on 3.Bb5? |
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| Oct-14-09 | | MaxxLange: <refutor> I've never heard of this line. 1 e4 c5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Nd4
How about 4 Bd3 instead of 4 Bc4? In the regular Grand Prix with Bb5, wasn't that Bd3 idea a big try against the ...Nd4 line, a few years ago? You follow with c3, Bc2, Nf3, 0-0, and d3 or d4, in some order, and how does Black justify his play? |
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| Oct-14-09 | | MaxxLange: Eh, you can't play c3 soon, your QN is on c3. |
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Oct-14-09
| | refutor: i'm going to do a little research and see what i come up with. it's worth a punt (or two) in blitz i figure :) |
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Oct-14-09
 | | parisattack: <refutor: any thoughts on 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5? after 3. ...Ne4 4.Bc4 it's not your typical sicilian > It is a fairly popular move. The ChessLab database has scores of games with it. |
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Oct-14-09
| | refutor: there's lots of games with it but the positions aren't common sicilian positions by the looks of it |
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Oct-14-09
| | parisattack: As long as White avoids d4 I think it is more like a Rossolimo variation than a Closed - although technically they are both 'closed' without White's d4. |
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Oct-14-09
| | parisattack: <refutor: > I saw your question on the Bird's forum also. You might like John Watson's Mastering the Chess Openings series (3 volumes). |
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| Oct-14-09 | | MaxxLange: <parisattack>It's Rossolimo-ish, yes, but, the Knights are reversed - in the Rossolimo, the KN is at f3, and the QN is at b1. Here, the QN is at c3, and the KN is at g1. |
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| Oct-14-09 | | MaxxLange: seconding Watson's opening books - I have the first two volumes, which have been of immense help in my chess studies. I've been inspired to play lots of main line openings by them, that I had previously feared. |
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| Oct-14-09 | | MaxxLange: Example: I scored 2 easy wins at the last weekend tourney I went to, using Watson's explanation of the 1 e4 c6 2 Nc3 d5 3 Nf3 system against the Caro-Kann. He explains with such fairness and lucidity how Black should play to equalize against this sideline, and what can happen if Black strays from the path. I was in the 'B' class, and the opponents were just clueless against that line. They did not even play ..Bg4, they just went into their autopilot CK development |
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