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A Bust to the Sicilian Defense
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What is the staples variation of the Alapin?
Oct 19, 2018
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#345
The Staples13 variation is where you castle queenside in the Alapin. It says to black that I don’t care that you have an open c file stating at my king. My attack is stronger than yours
Oct 19, 2018
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#346
Hopefully Carlsen and Caruana will play a couple Staples13 Alapins in their upcoming World Championship match
Wait... this guy claims that the Sicilian is busted becouse you don't control the center? now this is stupid... isn't the c5 pawn coverning d4? Isn't the c5 push open the queen's diagonal and allowing the knight to be developed without blocking the c pawn? Isn't the c5 getting space on the queenside for black since move 1?
By your arguments you just busted the Bird, the english, the polish, the saragossa, the anderssen, the clemenz... for white and a lot of responses for black. You literally refuted all the hypermodern chess and all the openings that indirectly control the center or that give up the center at the opening and try to undermind it later.
staples13 wrote:
Hopefully Carlsen and Caruana will play a couple Staples13 Alapins in their upcoming World Championship match
That's not even a variation. I also castle queenside sometimes when playing the Alapin.
I feel like you are just trolling us
Oct 19, 2018
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#349
OpeningTheorist wrote:
Wait... this guy claims that the Sicilian is busted becouse you don't control the center? now this is stupid... isn't the c5pawn coverning d4? Isn't the c5 push open the queen's diagonal and allowing the knight to be developed without blocking the c pawn? Isn't the c5 getting space on the queenside for black since move 1?
By your arguments you just busted the Bird, the english, the polish, the saragossa, the anderssen, the clemenz... for white and a lot of responses for black. You literally refuted all the hypermodern chess and all the openings that indirectly control the center or that give up the center at the opening and try to undermind it later.
Nonsense. The English, bird, and all the other openings you listed are obviously not busted. I have not claimed that and no sane person would.
They are perfectly playable. I have given dozens of games and reasons why the Alapin busts the Sicilian
staples13 wrote:
OpeningTheorist wrote:
Wait... this guy claims that the Sicilian is busted becouse you don't control the center? now this is stupid... isn't the c5pawn coverning d4? Isn't the c5 push open the queen's diagonal and allowing the knight to be developed without blocking the c pawn? Isn't the c5 getting space on the queenside for black since move 1?
By your arguments you just busted the Bird, the english, the polish, the saragossa, the anderssen, the clemenz... for white and a lot of responses for black. You literally refuted all the hypermodern chess and all the openings that indirectly control the center or that give up the center at the opening and try to undermind it later.
Nonsense. The English, bird, and all the other openings you listed are obviously not busted. I have not claimed that and no sane person would.
They are perfectly playable. I have given dozens of games and reasons why the Alapin busts the Sicilian
I would like to know the reasons 
Oct 19, 2018
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#351
No it would make for an exciting game instead of the boring draws Carlsen and Karjakin kept playing to.
Im glad you enjoy playing the Staples13 variation as well! It’s an extremely fun, exciting opening
Oct 19, 2018
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#352
OpeningTheorist wrote:
staples13 wrote:
OpeningTheorist wrote:
Wait... this guy claims that the Sicilian is busted becouse you don't control the center? now this is stupid... isn't the c5pawn coverning d4? Isn't the c5 push open the queen's diagonal and allowing the knight to be developed without blocking the c pawn? Isn't the c5 getting space on the queenside for black since move 1?
By your arguments you just busted the Bird, the english, the polish, the saragossa, the anderssen, the clemenz... for white and a lot of responses for black. You literally refuted all the hypermodern chess and all the openings that indirectly control the center or that give up the center at the opening and try to undermind it later.
Nonsense. The English, bird, and all the other openings you listed are obviously not busted. I have not claimed that and no sane person would.
They are perfectly playable. I have given dozens of games and reasons why the Alapin busts the Sicilian
I would like to know the reasons
Well you’re in luck. There are hundreds of posts worth of valuable information.
staples13 wrote:
No it would make for an exciting game instead of the boring draws Carlsen and Karjakin kept playing to.
Im glad you enjoy playing the Staples13 variation as well! It’s an extremely fun, exciting opening
Lol it's not your variation becouse it's not even a variation. I could also call 1.e4 c5 2.c3 the OpeningTheorist variation so I'm glad you play my variation
Oct 19, 2018
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#354
Now you’re just being ludicrous. You can not claim the Alapin as your variation, as it belongs to Semyon Alapin who in my opinion is the greatest openin theoretician of all time.
As chess.com’s undisputed ranking expert on the Alapin I am most certainly entitled to name a variation of the Alapin that I invented after myself
Oct 19, 2018
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#355
Since you are a practitioner of the Staples13 variation of the Alapin please post one of your games with it, so we can all see it in it’s full beauty
staples13 wrote:
Now you’re just being ludicrous. You can not claim the Alapin as your variation, as it belongs to Semyon Alapin who in my opinion is the greatest openin theoretician of all time.
As chess.com’s undisputed ranking expert on the Alapin I am most certainly entitled to name a variation of the Alapin that I invented after myself
Undisputed ranking expert? How can you claim that everybody castling queenside on the Alapin is playing your variation? This is so stupid you must be trolling.
Man you are literally nobody in online chess or OTB chess, how can you make such nonsense claims?
Oct 19, 2018
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#357
You’re the one who claimed the Alapin as his own. I would never make such a ridiculous claim as I have respect for the greats who came before us like Semyon Alapin.
All i I did was name a variation of the Alapin after myself that I invented and popularized. There is nothing unreasonable or nonsensical about that.
staples13 wrote:
You’re the one who claimed the Alapin as his own. I would never make such a ridiculous claim as I have respect for the greats who came before us like Semyon Alapin.
All i I did was name a variation of the Alapin after myself that I invented and popularized. There is nothing unreasonable or nonsensical about that.
"All i I did was name a variation of the Alapin after myself that I invented and popularized."
Yep, you are trolling and you don't understand sarcasm
OK, but I'm sorry, @staples13, here's where I disagree with you. You may have invented and popularized a variation of the alapin, but let's just put this into perspective.
Let's say I play this opening:
Obviously this is a variation of the Queen's Pawn Opening: Agincourt Defense. But because I played this opening one time, I now have a right to call it whatever I want, let's say the, "Queen's Pawn Opening, Kelson McCleffins Defense" (Which is my name, BTW). And now let's say it, dies. Do you still think it's mine to name because one person played it one time?
I sort of agree with your alapin comments, although some of them are blown out of proportion, like this. Just because you played this opening one time means that you now get to call it whatever you like?
Kwolverine04 wrote:
OK, but I'm sorry, @staples13, here's where I disagree with you. You may have invented and popularized a variation of the alapin, but let's just put this into perspective.
Let's say I play this opening:
Obviously this is a variation of the Queen's Pawn Opening: Agincourt Defense. But because I played this opening one time, I now have a right to call it whatever I want, let's say the, "Queen's Pawn Opening, Kelson McCleffins Defense" (Which is my name, BTW). And now let's say it, dies. Do you still think it's mine to name because one person played it one time?
I sort of agree with your alapin comments, although some of them are blown out of proportion, like this. Just because you played this opening one time means that you now get to call it whatever you like?
Dude staples invented and popularized nothing. The Alapin is more than 130 years old and people has castle queenside thousands of times before he wasn't even born.
Did BobbyTalparov get banned? All of his posts are gone. Thats a shame because he had some good detailed analysis on here. Mods can you please restore his comments?