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Hello, I'm trying to study to understanding of básical development of bishops and Knights and e, d, c pawns in the Sicilian with Black. I would like a dynamic Variant. Any variation recommendation and also some material, instructive Sicilian players games on basic strategy in the Sicilian? I play as an amateur 1500 - 1700 elo chesscom, blitz games 3, 5 or 10 min. Any suggestions are wellcome. Thanks

With the highest win rate at high level, I give you the Jalalabad Sicilian. 100% win rate, 0% draws or losses for black. Much better than novice systems like the Najdorf or Dragon, where white wins more often than black. I recommend switching today. More like JalalaGOOD, amiright?

Normally, I'm pretty happy to see the bowlder attack. But I ran into an opponent who played like this against me, and though I won in the end, I felt pretty passive in the early stages. Both my normal pawn breaks were stopped, and generating activity was pretty difficult. Nf6 is met by e5 with no good squares for the knight. (I ended up playing b6.) Is there a better way to play against this?

Here is my favorite anti Sicilian opening. Awesome in blitz, as almost no one plays it, the Staunton-Cochrane variation. Almost every game gets to this position, with occasional changes in the move order. From there white can then play a3, Rb1, prepping the b4 pawn push, or they can do f4 right off the bat. From either of these positions it gets to be a pretty good fight, that is incredibly even on all sides. games played with this usually become battles for the a and b, or e and f files. I apologize if I have not gone incredibly deep into any lines, but the games are usually played very evenly, (though there are often mistakes made by the other player), and almost always get to the first position without any problems.

I thought it was a good idea to have a place to share those good games we have with the Sicilian, so that others can review them and find good ideas for their game. In this case, I will leave a game that I think is a good example of rearranging the plans. Personally, my game is almost always based on the fianchetto bishop, and I try to avoid changing it as much as possible, but not at the cost of passivity or spoiling my structure. So in this case I assume the change and plan to use it to my advantage.

Opening Moves: Number 4: The Classical Variation Number 3: Fischer Variation Number 2: English Attack Number 1: Poisoned Pawn Variation I like this move since the pawn is actually poisoned. I saw it in a game where Bobby Fischer played as black.