SwimmerBill wrote:
Favourite Najdorf variation?
Great Counter to Sicilian Defense
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As white, the Bg5 line is most interesting. I'm good on the older lines but in the last 40 years there has been some new ideas that I'm working, one loss at a time, on finding a path through. - Bill
SwimmerBill wrote:
As white, the Bg5 line is most interesting. I'm good on the older lines but in the last 40 years there has been some new ideas that I'm working, one loss at a time, on finding a path through. - Bill
This is also my favourite. I like Bc4 as well but it's more dubious.
NEETHUDAS123 wrote:
Counter here
Lol.
Mar 20, 2023
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SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:
NEETHUDAS123 wrote:
Counter here
Lol.
A fun try is the Kopec System. Developed by IM Danny Kopec, it shows up in only 52 games in the lichess master level database. White has won 48%, Black has won 15%, and the rest were draws. Svidler, Aronian, and Rapport have used it with success, and Kopec beat Ivanov (rated 2678 at the time) twice with it.
The idea is that White will play c3 and Bc2. The LSB, which has become known as the Kopec Bishop, can be effective on the b1-h7 diagonal, the a2-g8 diagonal, or the a4-e8 diagonal, depending on how the game develops.
I'm a d4 player but would definitely try this against the Sicilian for its entertainment value if I ever decide to get wild and crazy and play 1. e4.
Aug 28, 2023
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The Agent Smith-Morra is an excellent antidote to the flabby Sicilian.
After kicking a pedantic Sissycilan player pillar to post, ask them---
"Want some Morra that?"
Morra is dreadfully frightening
Ummm okayyy??😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😁😁😁☺️😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😭😭😭😭I have no idea what if the opponent plays some other move and the n I would be like a dog staring at the chess board
Ok not a dog but an idiot
9 days ago
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Bill_C wrote:
Playing an opening is all about a matter of playing style. What I can tell you about the SM Gambit is that the hardest wins I have had to play for are when Black plays e6, taking some of the sting out of the Bc4 move later on move 4 or 5 and openings where Black plays almost any other reply than cxd4 that plays to the center. there are some good traps for White but against a good Kan/Taimanov player, White can have an uphill battle to show his equality, even if he does eventually get a 6th rank pawn in the center or if Black takes in the center.
That's the line I play against the SM. It's just trivially easy to play as black. SM, especially the main line, is a complete crap line, if you want to play an anti-sicilian - especially a gambit - you need an element of surprise. SM is one of the most predictable and common gambits. Every sicilian player sees this all the time. You're not surprising anyone with this junk.
Nice game
OldPatzerMike wrote:
A fun try is the Kopec System. Developed by IM Danny Kopec, it shows up in only 52 games in the lichess master level database. White has won 48%, Black has won 15%, and the rest were draws. Svidler, Aronian, and Rapport have used it with success, and Kopec beat Ivanov (rated 2678 at the time) twice with it.
The idea is that White will play c3 and Bc2. The LSB, which has become known as the Kopec Bishop, can be effective on the b1-h7 diagonal, the a2-g8 diagonal, or the a4-e8 diagonal, depending on how the game develops.
I'm a d4 player but would definitely try this against the Sicilian for its entertainment value if I ever decide to get wild and crazy and play 1. e4.
Mike- That's the only line I've never played and never faced. I'm OK with trying to convert a Sicilian into a Ruy Lopez like game. Seems to me the following is critical: which side would you rather play below? - Bill
W swimmer bill
I play the Sicilian and had S-M played against me often enough. Basically I know 1 game: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1126415 and pretty much follow its idfeas until my memory deviates or white deviates. Then I play it like a Schevennigen [a pawn up, playing Qb8 rather than Qc7 and focusing on 'prevent e5!']. So far, I've been fortunate and that has been enough to win every game in it. I can say that in those games white had more fun: defending is a chore compared to attacking but you gotta do what the position demands.
As white I did experiment with it for a while but always found that I wanted my knight on d4 not f3 to help attack. So I dropped SM for the standard open Sicilian.
I think S-M is an OK way for white to have fun and narrow the openings to learn. But it isnt the path I've picked. -Bill