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Liverpool_925
Apr 5, 2010
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I can't find this line of the closed sicilian on the internet. Do any of you guys know what it is called? (Looks like the Rossolimo)

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willilo
Apr 5, 2010
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#2

That's because it isn't the closed sicilian.... normally in the closed sicilian the bishop goes to g2 with a fianchetto pawn structure

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Liverpool_925
Apr 6, 2010
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#3

What is it then?

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billwall
Apr 7, 2010
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#4

It is called the Rossolimo or Nezmetdinov variation of the Sicilian.  ECO classifies it as B30 to B31.  One of my games went like this:

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asam_2
Jun 9, 2010
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billwall, that game seems to come from more than a decade ago! That must have been a great game...

Liking the Rossolimo variation. Hope to use it soon.