Hey guys! I just started a blog completely dedicated to the c3 Sicilian at c3sicilian.wordpress.com, head over and check it out! Also feel free to discuss it here, it will give me awesome material to use for the blog :) tell me what you think about the opening, post games you played/games you saw played you thought were good, anything!
Did you see this article on chess.com?
What do you think?
I did see it, I think it is a phenominal article describing the plans for both sides in the endgames arising after 6. dxc5, shows how to transition from an opening to the endgame, and not just on getting an opening advantage and leaving you to figure out what to do with it.
tell me what you think about the opening
1 e4 c5 2 c3 d5 3 exd5 Nf6 4 d4 cxd4 5 cxd4 Nxd5 6 Nc3 Nc6 7 Nf3 e6
Try to get your hands on ''The complete c3 sicilian - Evgeny Sveshnikov'' that book is held in very high regard. I got it myself and love it (I play sicilian as black but that does not matter for that book)
I did see it, I think it is a phenominal article describing the plans for both sides in the endgames arising after 6. dxc5, shows how to transition from an opening to the endgame, and not just on getting an opening advantage and leaving you to figure out what to do with it.
That article seems to imply that typical positions arise in that line 12 moves in and that both sides need to be well prepared for what sounds like quite a theoretical battle.
Are you going to be suggesting another line which doesn't require as much preparation and memorisation by white?
Try to get your hands on ''The complete c3 sicilian - Evgeny Sveshnikov''
Sveshnikov played the c3 Sicilian so loyally, people wanted to call the c3 Sicilian the Sveshnikov and change the name of
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 e5
to the Magdalene Variation.
I did see it, I think it is a phenominal article describing the plans for both sides in the endgames arising after 6. dxc5, shows how to transition from an opening to the endgame, and not just on getting an opening advantage and leaving you to figure out what to do with it.
That article seems to imply that typical positions arise in that line 12 moves in and that both sides need to be well prepared for what sounds like quite a theoretical battle.
Are you going to be suggesting another line which doesn't require as much preparation and memorisation by white?
I have an entire page on the blog dedicated to 9. dxc5, but I will try to come up with something a little less theory - heavy. I think that in the variation, you are more relying on intuition and your tactical ability and the ideas of the position, rather than specific lines. However, if you don't like being down a pawn in an endgame, there are of course lines where White maintains the pawn on d4. I will try to cover those as well
Try to get your hands on ''The complete c3 sicilian - Evgeny Sveshnikov'' that book is held in very high regard. I got it myself and love it (I play sicilian as black but that does not matter for that book)
And yes I am getting that book and I'm really pumped about it, it is essentially the Bible of the 2. c3 Sicilian. Thanks for the support guys! Just posted on the blog! I will try to post one topic in each category so that they show up. Keep commenting, lets get pumped about 2. c3!!
tell me what you think about the opening
1 e4 c5 2 c3 d5 3 exd5 Nf6 4 d4 cxd4 5 cxd4 Nxd5 6 Nc3 Nc6 7 Nf3 e6
3...Nf6?! 4 Qa4+!
Hey guys! I just started a blog completely dedicated to the c3 Sicilian at c3sicilian.wordpress.com, head over and check it out! Also feel free to discuss it here, it will give me awesome material to use for the blog :) tell me what you think about the opening, post games you played/games you saw played you thought were good, anything!