How do you play e4 c5 f4?
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I love sicilian defense but I'm beginning to study. Help me.
1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5=>2.Nc3!
I play 2... d5 hoping for tal gambit!!!! And if not that most that I play go 3.e5. I like playing both and they are comfortable for me. Just use the explorer and look at the positioning of pieces that are possible just to get out of the opening
I usually play some form of c4 sicilian
the move order is 1 e4 c5 2f4 and immediately d5 it fights for the centre followed by fianchettoing the black white bishop
YuriSenkevich wrote:
TheEinari wrote:
I usually play some form of c4 sicilian
*c3.
Why dont people called it Alapin? Make his creator proud.
Oops, I ment c3. I don't know. Some reason I didn't think of it as alapin since Alapin variation is e4 c5 c3 straight away and usually throw the 'normal sicilian'-like Nf3 inbetween
Isn't f4 the Austrian attack
Doh, silly me, you are right, don't know where that come from, I am involved in a game against the grand Prix at the moment, where f4 is prominent
Possibly helpful:
Experts on the Anti-Sicilian by Jacob Aagaard & John Shaw (ed.) (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626195254/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen147.pdf
Fighting the Anti-Sicilians by Richard Palliser (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627130915/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen106.pdf
Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black by Dorian Rogozenko (2003)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627050549/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen50.pdf
Sveshnikov vs. the Anti-Sicilians by GM Evgeny Sveshnikov (2014)
Grandmaster Repertoire: Beating the Anti-Sicilians by Vassilios Kotronias (2015)
Anti-Sicilians: Move by Move by IM Cyrus Lakdawala (2016)
Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack by Gawain Jones (2008)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627012235/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen111.pdf
The Grand Prix Attack by Evgeny Sveshnikov (2013)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626232217/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen171.pdf