Anti sicilian 2.Ne2

What's your point? It's always good to make points rather than random, cryptic sounding comments that are actually meaningless.

Pedantically making such a point is only an indication that you're stupid. I suggest you talk amongst yourselves. There are too many people here with poles up their arses.

May I suggest a topic?

Yes, everyone else is the problem. You're the font of all knowledge.

Must be annoying to live your life with everyone else being stupid and getting everything wrong.

I don't think there are any advantages to 2.Ne2 if White only wants to play the closed sicilian. Perhaps he wants to provoke 2...d5. 

Or 2 e5, for that matter.

<<Must be annoying to live your life with everyone else being stupid and getting everything wrong.>>

I got used to it. For instance, if you were more intelligent, you'd concentrate more on the chess and less on making childish arguments, Scott. Why are all the little kids in this thread?

Hello. Actually if I get 2. Ne2, which is very uncommon, I play my normal second move, 2. ...a6, which is an excellent move and even better after 2. Ne2.

I don't like 2. ...e5. I think that's passive for black. Not in the spirit of the Sicilian at all. I think 2. ... d5 is fine for black if black wants a gambit. That is, 3. ed ...Nf6. I'd play that happily in blitz but not in a slow game.

I've just noticed I was supporting 2. ...d5 six years ago and I got into arguments with some pretty argumentative people. Or I should say that they got into arguments with me. I think I was a stronger player then, than I am now.

I'll look at the line you proposed against 2. ...d5. I was only suggesting it out of interest. I don't like the idea of retreating to d8. I was probably happy with it then, and with the idea I could defend it. I'd want to retreat to h5 and if that isn't playable, I wouldn't play the variation.

I did notice that Pfren made a logically incorrect comment. He said that if white wouldn't play 1. c4 ... e5 2. d4 then black shouldn't. But white is motivated by keeping and making use of his opening advantage and black may have very different motivations. Provided something doesn't lose, there will be those who want to try it, so his argument was incorrect.

I have never played this with white and according to the explorer I have faced 2.Ne2 only once in the over 800 games I have played with black which began 1.e4 c5. Can't say I have any particular thoughts on it, but here is how I played it.

Well played. Wasn't very bright of him to castle q-side though. I've had it once recently. I just went 2. a6 and eventually it transposed. Being a 2. a6 player I'm not scared of the 3 c3 lines but even so, they're unplayable after 2. Ne2.