Is the "Sicilian french variation" the best variation in the Sicilian defence?

Is the "Sicilian french variation" the best variation in the Sicilian defence?

Stockfish recommends pushing the e pawn.

Computers don't know openings, and 2...e6 is NOT the "French Variation".  There is no definition yet after 2...e6.  There are many anti-Sicilians still available to white.  Otherwise, after 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4, you have:

The Taimanov Variation:  4...Nc6

The Kan Variation:  4...a6 with no subsequent ...Nc6 which would transpose to the old Taimanov.  Knight goes to d7 in the Kan 

The Four Knights Variation:  4...Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6.

The Pin Variation:  4...Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4

There is no French Variation.  That would be like saying 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 is the Sicilian Variation because I played c5.  Wrong!  It is the Open Tarrasch.  3...Nf6 is the Closed Tarrasch.

As U see, in your pic there are 3 variations with the same evaluation +0.2 (d=40):

• French 2...e6
• Modern Sicilian 2...d6
• Old Sicilian 2...Nc6

The French variation 2...e6 is clearly one of the best, leading to Kan, Paulsen/Taimanov etc.

Well, comrade, your (often interesting) personal insights shouldn't contradict the official terminology widely accepted in databases.

You are a delusional idiot!

"WIDELY ACCEPTED IN DATABASES"???????   PROVE IT!

I can already, for example, prove to you that it does not say "French Variation" outside of possibly the chess.com clown database!

www.365chess.com, after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 it states "B40 Sicilian Defense".  Proceed further with 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 and now it reads "B45 Sicilian Defense, Taimanov Variation", proceed further, and it gets more descriptive, but NEVER does it say "Sicilian Defense, French Variation", BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING!

So your "WIDELY ACCEPTED" statement is horsesh*t!!

Thanks for the compliment. 

chess.com, lichess, chesstempo ... (I'm lazy to make an extensive search) use the term Sicilian defense: French variation.

If U don't like chess.com just go away  instead of posting your clownish comments. 

Both U and @ThrillerFan are ludicrously arrogant and pretentious. 

The life continues, the terminology changes (sometimes). Personally, I prefer to say Franco-Sicilian defense. Imho, it's better and clearer than B40 Sicilian (who the heck remembers all those ECO codes ?!?). 

The Kan Sicilian is a very strong opening

I'm gonna write a book on the Sicilian Modern variation. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6.

LoL A man can't live so long to write so much properly. 

Never say never. 

Calling 2...e6 French variation is as meaningful as calling 1...e6 French defense.

Wouldn't it be the Sicilian variation of the French?

Yes, that's also true :

Sicilian: French variation = French: Sicilian variation = Franco-Sicilian defense. 

This, as I understand it, is the Franco-Sicilian. If White now plays  3.Nf3 it transposes into a regular Sicilian, but White has other options, such as 3,d5.

Stockfish doesn't necessarily recommend pushing the e pawn. If you have pressed the light bulb (the Hint button), try to press it several times, and you will see several acceptable moves being recommended. The one variant is not better than the other. The e pawn is ok, but you can move a night instead of the e pawn if you like.

1) Overcoming resistance is often a violent process. 

2) change doesn't have to be useful to overcome resistance. It has to be powerful to overcome resistance.

Power is not psychological. It's physical or financial.

And its not a modern concept. It is as old as human civilization itself (when it was born in India). 😊