3rd rank set up! The best solution
I WANT TO DEMOLISH THE SICILIAN OPENING AS WHITE! GIVE SUGGESTIONS!
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13 hrs ago
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#223
At this level, memorizing openings isn't really necessary. You should focus more on endgames and stick to playing e4 for your openings. You'll see your chess improve instantly!
I still think that the Closed Sicilian, with a kingside fianchetto and an eventual kingside pawn storm, is one of the trickiest ways to put pressure on a Sicilian player. Black can get in trouble on the kingside pretty quickly, if he doesn't generate some good counterplay.
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2 hrs ago
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#226
This is IM's perunovic' suggestion, I really like it because it is quite deceiving in its poison, white allows the taking of his bishop pair, but white gets swift development, and once white plays d4, fully intends to take with queen since the queen knight cannot harrass it. Its easy for black to think you will just play this in open sicilian fashion with nxd4 only to end up in a nasty surprise
You can pair it with the so called Carlsen variation
Well, KG is dubious...
This will bring a smile to your face. 55% win ratio in nearly 1,500 games.
Yeah 55% sure is good isn't it. Oh hey, what a coincidence. 55% is exactly my winrate as black against the SM! Except that's averaged over my whole account history, including when I was low rated and didn't know how to deal with it. I think now it's in the 60s somewhere. Which is about on par with most black players who respond accurately.