Alapin is one of the easiest openings to deal with by Sicilian players. Open Sicilian is by far the most challeging test and after than is Rossolimo. The rest of anti-sicilians such as wing gambit, Alapin, Smith-Morra do not pose any problem to Black.
Chessopera I ask you please don’t try to mislead posters as that’s obviously not true.
There is no ‘bust to sicilian’. Sicilian is not an easy nut to crack at specially with Alapin. Alapin is OK but not as good as open sicilian 100%.
Open Sicilian is TRASH
Grand Prix/Closed Sicilian is close to winning
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4. Nf3?
Yeah I accept your challenge. We can play one game as each color if you’d prefer
1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nf3 d6
Evaluation +0.01 at depth 40
Cold hard proof that this works
No better proof than this
Cool hard proof that woodpushers are naive enough to take a blitz game between engines seriously.
Agree with pfren. At the move ...g4? both engines only have less than 10 seconds on their clock, so they could not analyze deep enough and made mistakes. Just a side note, Komodo is especially bad at short time controls compared to other engines.
Blitz games played by engines are much stronger than long time controls played by humans, so yes their games are relevant
Are we going to see staples13 identify a winning improvement for White in the Godena-Perez game?
Busting sicilian defence is the dream of all white players as sicilian has really frustrated white at all levels. When black plays sicilian white can only bow down, show respect and shake hands and accept the daunting task and get on with it and fight hard till the end! Some white players panic and resort to anti-sicilian in desperation but this is not the right way; white must roll up its sleeves and go for the open sicilian which means accepting black’s challenge! Anti-sicilian simply means refusing black’s challenge!
ANTI SICILIAN IS THE WAY
They could easily defeat Carlsen in a 10 game match
1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nf3 d6 6. cxd4 Nc6
0.00 depth 54
I'd be quite happy to play Staples at 3-day chess if he wants. He can even have white.
I sent you a friend request so you can send me a challenge
Sicilian is totally busted, I thought alpha zero engine already proved this?
The November 2018 issue of Chess lists the top twenty openings compiled from a list of 2345 September games where both players were rated over 2400 Elo. One can not take position on this list too seriously because it is greatly influenced by how the openings are grouped. For example, all the Retis are grouped together, while English is separated into 1...c5, 1...e5, etc. Nevertheless, for what it is worth, some of the list entries are: 158 Retis, 127 King's Indians, 91 declined Queen's Gambits, 88 Caro-Kanns, 70 Najdorf Sicilians, 64 Slavs, 63 Nimzo-Indians, 58 2 Nf3 sideline Sicilians, 54 2 Nf3 d6 sideline Sicilians, 53 1...Nf6 Englishes, 48 Kan Sicilians, 48 Catalans, 42 Berlin Ruy Lopezes, 42 Queen's Indians, 38 1...e6 Englishes, 37 3 Nxe5 Petroffes, 36 1...e5 Englishes, and 33 Closed Ruy Lopezes.
I don’t particularly like these 2. Nf6 lines against the Alapin. They lead to a much more boring game than all of blacks other responses
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I looked at your games fine sir and I see you play a variety of different responses to the Sicilian, but did you know that you score much better using the Alapin than you do any other response to the Sicilian? You score an excellent 61% using the Alapin and very average against the Sicilian using your other responses.
The data speaks for itself