How To Beat The Sicilian ?

Whob,

So what you are saying is you play the Morra and hope Black doesn't know how to play the opening he selected?

You made a new account just to post that pile?  

Lol, I wonder how many people get that reference.

i hate all open scilians....

i came up with

however chessgames.com community came up with this

I suggest a closed version of the Sicilian starting with 1e4 c5 2 N-c3 any usually and then 3 f4. Often I finchetto my king's bishop.

A lot of the open Sicilian lines require a lot of theory. This way, the game is a slower positional contest, which usually works out better for me. I have also tried 1e4c5 2N-c3N-c6 3B-b5 (which allows the bishop out with the intention of usually exchanging it. Black can try and avoid that by playing N-d4, but thses lines are acceptable for white.

Oh, that does fall under the Grand Prix attack, though I usually play it differently than some of the book lines.

What would you recommend to a player so they can get an understanding of sicilian theory? Some players just don't understand the sicilian and need a decent book that explains the theory.....not just recommended lines that lead to disaster from not understanding the theory.

hi

This is a great question . . . I figured if I repeated it, it will increase the chances of getting noticed ;-)

How to beat Sicilan ? 

I am a chess.com player

You have to try a lot of different ideas in blitz then analyze your games and see what works best for you. Then study that. Playing open sicilian as white  is not that hard. You only need 1 line/variation. There are 2 basic, getting started, approaches. 1. Try something like the English attack that you can play against most lines and just play it till its wheels drop off. 2. If you know which variation they play, learn 1 super sharp, critical line against it, often one leading to perpetual check-tat sharp, and play that. You'll know it better than black and usually black will err somewhere and away you go.  With both you try to win in the middlegame. Aggressive attacking chess is important for white in open Sicilians.

There's plenty available on that -- it's called the Sicilian Rossolimo.  When I googled it, the first hit was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDX0DZh-08 ; I know that there's a video by Finegold on chess.com about it, too, in the category of anti-Sicilians

English attack works well fast or slow for white against many open Sicilians: Be3, f3 , Qd7, OOO & pawn storm on kingside.   [I do find it useful to test my openings in blitz games. It's a lot more efficient to find you dont like a line in a 5 minute game so you can try something else in a 2 hour game.]