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Closed Sicilian Variation


  • 2 years ago · Quote · #1

    Liverpool_925

    I can't find this line of the closed sicilian on the internet. Do any of you guys know what it is called? (Looks like the Rossolimo)

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #2

    willilo

    That's because it isn't the closed sicilian.... normally in the closed sicilian the bishop goes to g2 with a fianchetto pawn structure

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #3

    Liverpool_925

    What is it then?

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #4

    billwall

    It is called the Rossolimo or Nezmetdinov variation of the Sicilian.  ECO classifies it as B30 to B31.  One of my games went like this:

  • 24 months ago · Quote · #5

    asam_2

    billwall, that game seems to come from more than a decade ago! That must have been a great game...

    Liking the Rossolimo variation. Hope to use it soon.

  • 24 months ago · Quote · #6

    polleke

    I first saw this variation when studying the grand prix attack. If you want to know more about it, Gawain Jones wrote a book on the grand prix attack, which has a long chapter on this variation.


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