3 most popular Sicilian variations after 11 moves

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I used the big database on 365chess.com for this purpose and 11 moves instead of 10 cuz there are important unifications of various lines on 11th move(!) :

1) Lasker-Pelikan+Sveshnikov+Chelyabinsk (2608 games, 33.1/36.4/30.5 %): 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6Bxf6 11. c3 0-0 :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Dragon:Yugoslav attack (2369 games, 44.5/21.9/33.6 %) 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Scheveningen+(Najdorf:English+Opocensky) (2109 games, 34.8 /38.3/26.9 %) 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O Be7 8. f4 O-O 9. Kh1 Qc7 10. a4 Nc6 11. Be3 Re8 :

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Pliz notice how the most popular line in the Dragon's Yugoslav attack is successful for white with 44.5 % of wins!Cool

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>> 3) Scheveningen+(Najdorf:English+Opocensky)

On my level English Attack is more popular I guess.

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Yigor wrote:

Pliz notice how the most popular line in the Dragon's Yugoslav attack is successful for white with 44.5 % of wins!Cool

Please notice how the same line also has the highest win% for Black as well (33.6%)!