A Bust to the Sicilian Defense

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SamuelAjedrez95
staples13 wrote:
what a nonsensical analysis. If you’re going to claim an opening loses by force after move 1 you better back it up with extensive support like I did

Hahahaha you chat so much bs and have no idea what you're talking about, it's hilarious. Either you're trolling or you're just arrogant and have no idea about chess. You have a lot to learn.

Virtually no-one plays this because it's one of the sh*ttiest openings in chess and you actually think it's good 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Even though you're also losing tonnes of games with it.

SamuelAjedrez95

Logic:

Pretends that they know about chess but

Sicilian = bad

Englund Gambit = good

🤣🤣🤣🤣

SamuelAjedrez95
staples13 wrote:

Also very false lol, I love it when my opponents play the Sicilian. Free win for me

"Free win" lol ok dude, we'll see about that when you get higher up and actually start playing decent players who know what they're doing against the Alapin...

You're obviously salty about the Sicilian defence or something. Like there's something you don't like about it.

You complain about all these openings being boring but you play the most boring lines against them. You complain that the French is boring but you play the French exchange, the most boring, lame variation of the French. You complain about the Sicilian but you play the Alapin, the most dry, equal variation of the Sicilian. You complain about d4 but play the Englund Gambit, which is just boring hope chess with no underlying strategy.

Yeah ofc it's going to be boring when you play all the most lame, boring lines.

SamuelAjedrez95

Listen to GM Daniel Naroditsky.

https://youtu.be/KwU9YZOZkQU

He actually specialises in the Alapin but admits that it's typically a very dry, equal position and allows black a lot of good opportunities for counterplay.

Personally I have no problems against the Alapin. I like playing against it because white is just being passive and not playing for an advantage. The move c3 takes away the most natural square from the knight so e4 is actually vulnerable. It also weakens the queenside so white doesn't have good prospects of castling long and playing aggressively with the pawn storm like in the Open Sicilian.

SamuelAjedrez95

This is a super comfortable game for black.

White literally has nothing to play for. This is not even the best line against the Alapin but black's development is just super natural and is totally fine anyway.

neatgreatfire
SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:

This is a super comfortable game for black.

White literally has nothing to play for.

I believe the main line there is 6.Be3, but it is still very good for black.

SamuelAjedrez95
neatgreatfire wrote:

I believe the main line there is 6.Be3, but it is still very good for black.

Yeah to be fair it was a bit of a cheapy lol. Na3 is just a common mistake from this position as in some lines it's a decent idea for white but in this case it's just losing. This line has a lot of traps like that which white can fall into.

staples13
SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:
staples13 wrote:
what a nonsensical analysis. If you’re going to claim an opening loses by force after move 1 you better back it up with extensive support like I did

Hahahaha you chat so much bs and have no idea what you're talking about, it's hilarious. Either you're trolling or you're just arrogant and have no idea about chess. You have a lot to learn.

Virtually no-one plays this because it's one of the sh*ttiest openings in chess and you actually think it's good 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Even though you're also losing tonnes of games with it.

 

Here’s a classic  Englund gambit game. This is my most recent game. It’s 3 minute no increment blitz like all my  other games. My opponent is one of the strongest players in the world but  even 2000+ rated players struggle against the Englund. 

staples13

And this is the very next game. A crushing victory with the Alapin. Look at this my 1940 rated opponent can’t even survive 13 moves against the Alapin. After 11 moves his poisition is hopelessly lost so he apparently decides to commit suicide sacrificing his king on move 12 

SamuelAjedrez95

😂 One of the strongest players in the world! Congratulations! 🤣 True, you proved me wrong 🤣 Englund Gambit too strong

Ethan_Brollier
SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:

This is a super comfortable game for black.

White literally has nothing to play for. This is not even the best line against the Alapin but black's development is just super natural and is totally fine anyway.

Yeah, the problem with the Alapin as far as I can tell is that it's far too committal to be worth playing on the second move. 2... d5 does really well but even 2... e6/Nc6 and the Alapin loses a lot of its bite (albeit not all, so it isn't the worst you can do against the Sicilian, it's just also not the best, as the last ~2000 responses to this troll post have made perfectly clear), so the obvious thing to do is to delay it in hopes that your opponent plays 2. d6 to enter the Delayed Alapin, which does incredibly well after 3... Nf6. Even then if they choose one of the options that do well against c3, you can just play a non-Alapin anti-Sicilian like the Pin, Kramnik, and Westerinen against 2... e6. Against 2... Nc6, you have four choices, the Rossolimo, Closed, Alapin, or Open. (I hate the Old Sicilian Variation, White doesn't have any good, uncommon sidelines in it, and it's a great waiting move in the Open to delay your choice of d6 or e6).

sndeww
staples13 wrote:

And this is the very next game. A crushing victory with the Alapin. Look at this my 1940 rated opponent can’t even survive 13 moves against the Alapin. After 11 moves his poisition is hopelessly lost so he apparently decides to commit suicide sacrificing his king on move 12 

probably more due to the fact that he forgot you're not really supposed to queenside castle in the d5-Bg4 lines rather than the strength of your opening.

SamuelAjedrez95
B1ZMARK wrote:

probably more due to the fact that he forgot you're not really supposed to queenside castle in the d5-Bg4 lines rather than the strength of your opening.

Literally, people will be like "opponent blundered a piece, strongest opening ever!" Lmao

staples13

Here’s another Alapin game. Opponent made a big blunder on move 1 ran into the teeth of the Alapin, and despite tenacious defense on his part could not overcome his poor opening choice

SamuelAjedrez95

"Opponent blundered so it's a good opening"... "ran into the teeth of the Alapin" cringe

0peoplelikethis

Statistically, the Alapin is as good as the Open Sicilian. The only difference is, it takes Black a little longer to equalise in the Open.

Ethan_Brollier
0peoplelikethis wrote:

Statistically, the Alapin is as good as the Open Sicilian. The only difference is, it takes Black a little longer to equalise in the Open.

Where do you find your statistics?

sndeww

STAPLES MY GUY YOU GOTTA HELP ME

staples13
B1ZMARK wrote:

STAPLES MY GUY YOU GOTTA HELP ME

 

Haha, after 2. Nf6 black loses after 3. e5, after 2.d5 black loses after 3. d4

LilBiden
Can anyone tell me why you would want to play Sicilian defense? Like I hear it’s a peanut headed move, yet it’s one of the most common moves in chess. So what’s the big draw to it?