
Sicilian defense main ideas
The Sicilian defense is a beast so expect this blog to be updated after publishing so come back regularly
Main introduction:
The Sicilian defense is a very solid and strategic opening
starting with the quick e4
looks like this
But the main variations are very tricky and hard to grasp in this blog I will shed some light. Note I am not a master at this opening unlike my Reti blog and very few times go to its main lines. Now lets look at the mainline of the Sicilian called the Alapin Variation
which is this
Ok now we move on to the main portion let check the main idea's
Main Idea's:
So the Sicilian to know its main idea's we need to find the mainlines
these include the Sicilian Dragon. Open Sicilian, and Closed Sicilian
let do some games
so I only had one checkmate game but there was a brilliant and this game had my first brilliant game
Now a master game
And then they resigned. That game was a Sicilian closed. But how do you get to it? Its simple
There now what's the open variation?
There you go finally for the first draft. We have the Sicilian dragon! The beast itself. So what is it? Its complex so in my next amendment I will explain in depth step by step its usages of the Dragon variation.