1e41-0 wrote:
.... And it is also worse. You have absolutely no respect for the dark squares.
c4 is more explosive than c3.
A Bust to the Sicilian Defense
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staples13 wrote:
HEY! I just sent you a challenge where you can demonstrate just how bad (sorry, GOOD) your Alapin is.
In my opinion the Sicilian Defense is busted. It loses by force.
The opening move of the Sicilian Defense violates just about every opening principle. It fails to develop a piece, fails to put a pawn in the center, and fails to open up a bishop for development. It allows white to immediately open up the center and to do so with greater development. The Sicilian Defense has nevertheless remained popular despite all of this for one reason and one reason only; in order for white to open up the center it comes at the cost of having to trade its D pawn for black's C pawn. This is why the ideal response to the Sicilian is the Alapin Variation 2. C3! It says to black no you can't have my center pawn. Now white is ahead in both development and control of the center , and black has absolutely no compensation.
You don't believe me? Look at the game explorer then. I have played 581 games here on chess.com using the Alapin. I have won 68% lost 26% and drawn the other 6%. That is a score of 71%. No other opening is capable of scoring 71%. But to prove all this let's look at some games. First, we have a 3 minute no increment blitz game I played. Look at the massive advantage white immediately gets both in piece development and in center control. Both are problems which stem from black's first move.
Here's another 3 minute no increment blitz game I played. Notice how easy white's development is and how black's position is already completely unplayable by move 10.
Finally, I'm sure you want to see a master level game so here we have Deep Blue vs. Kasparov (1996). For a little historical context this was the first match between them and Kasparov annihilated Deep Blue +3 -1=2. Deep Blue's lone victory came as you might guess playing the Alapin Variation. Kasparov faced a horrible position straight out of the opening and Deep Blue wasted no time converting it. Notice that the most powerful chess player of all time got destroyed playing against a computer much weaker than him.
After 2. C3 black is in my opinion lost. White refuses to allow black to exchange its c pawn for white's d pawn giving black no compensation for white's lead in development and center control, which ultimately always proves decisive in the end.
I'd like to close by saying that of course black can always play differently than in the games shown, in which case he merely loses differently.
Dec 14, 2018
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#704
I accepted your challenge tremanisunchild. It looks like you have the white pieces though
I'll play the Open Sicilian
Dec 15, 2018
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#706
TremaniSunChild wrote:
I'll play the Open Sicilian
Why not try the Alapin?
Dec 15, 2018
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#707
fairytalebeast wrote:
you guys still talking about this!? the alapin is awkward and somewhat annoying but the smith morra is tougher to play against
The Smith-Morra gambit is good but inaccurate because it gives black drawing chances. Black receives a pawn in compensation while in the Alapin black has no compensation for his lack of center control and devleopment
"Objectively, the Alapin System is not that dangerous for Black. ..." - GM Mikhail Golubev (2017)
Dec 15, 2018
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#709
kindaspongey wrote:
"Objectively, the Alapin System is not that dangerous for Black. ..." - GM Mikhail Golubev (2017)
“Everyone you’ll ever meet knows something you don’t”- Albert Einstein
Golubev is a stronger player than me but he doesn’t beat have my expertise in the Alapin. Thus I suggest you defer to my expertise on the subject.
"Objectively, the Alapin System is not that dangerous for Black. ..." - GM Mikhail Golubev (2017)
"... Golubev is a stronger player than me but he doesn’t beat have my expertise in the Alapin. Thus I suggest you defer to my expertise on the subject." - staples13 (today)
staples13 wrote (November 8, 2018):
littlesoldier123 wrote:
By the way how would you explain your results against 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 ? You scored roughly half-half against this line, but you claim that 2... Nf6 is winning for white.
https://www.chess.com/explorer?moveList=e4+c5+c3+Nf6+e5+Nd5&ply=6&gameSource=other&gameType=all&color=white&username=staples13&origMoves=e4+e5+Nf3+Nc6+Bc4+Nf6+Ng5
Just because I’m a moron who frequently blunders winning positions in the 2. Nf6 line doesn’t change the fact that it’s winning
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staples13 wrote:
Because the Alapin is not my cup of tea
TremaniSunChild wrote:
I'll play the Open Sicilian
Why not try the Alapin?
staples13 wrote:
“Everyone you’ll ever meet knows something you don’t”- Albert Einstein - Einstein NEVER said that.
staples13 wrote (~5 hours ago):
Here is my most recent game. It was a one minute bullet game. … 1. e4 c5? 2. c3! Nc6?! ...
"... d5 and nf6 do provide much stiffer resistance than any of black's other responses. I, however, believe black is still lost even after these moves. I will post an analysis shortly." - staples13 (August 27, 2018)
Dec 16, 2018
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#716
pfren wrote:
Nezhmetdinov has said that "he, who analyses blitz, is stupid". So it seems fair that you described yourself as a moron a few posts above: you are analysing bullet. Actually Black is fine in that line after 7...e6, but this does not matter at all. Nobody would really care talking with you seriously.
and Bobby Fischer once said,
"I beat the Jews in chess. I beat them badly too, I beat them very badly... Plus, on top of that I exposed them as cheating in chess! As outright crooks. Plus, I exposed the holocaust as never happened. Totally made up. The Jews are liars. There is not a shred of truth to this holocaust."
So you see Pfren not everything that comes out of the mouth of grandmasters should be taken as absolute truth. Fact of the matter is that people can absolutely learn from blitz games, and there is nothing wrong with analyzing one, especially ones that are as instructive as the ones I've been posting.
I usually play the Alapin against the Sicilian (I like practicing the active IQP positions that rise a lot), but it is far from an actual refutation of the defense:
Replying to staples' FIRST comment (IMO the Sicilian is...) or I am unknown
Dec 26, 2018
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#719
I’ve noticed a massive increase in the number of people playing the Alapin. Clearly our hard work and brilliant analysis here is paying off.
I'm sure all the Grandmasters in the world who have struggled against it are so glad you could see much better than them how to destroy the Sicilian!
Actually, your statement that "The opening move of the Sicilian Defense violates just about every opening principle" indicates you need to study opening principles a little deeper. 1...c5 controls d4 as does ...Nc6. You don't have to put a Pawn in the Center to contest of control the center.
What makes you think you can understand weaknesses of the Sicilian better than Grandmasters who sometimes spend several hours per day for months studying it?