Sicilian O'Kelly Variation

Hi everyone,

Last time I posted an opening I made up it was not too successful in that people found lot's of refutations, but now with the help of Deep Rybka 4, I think I can say that I have found a playable line in the O'Kelly Variation of the Sicilian...

 If you see anything wrong with the opening or just want to say th

find just comment. As always, I am encouraging comments,

thanks,

Thomas

any comments? :(

Yes, comments: 8. f4 is not Whites' best move it seems. But it gives Black the opportunity to open up for King's Bishop. So it seems an unlikely scenario, more of an convenient construction. More likely and likely much stronger is 8. Nd5. Black's only viable option here is to capture White's attacking Knight. But 9. exd5 again puts Black back! Knight is forced to retreat all the way home. And White is already far better. White could continue developing with Bd3 and then next castle.

Even with 24hrs, I don't think a computer can correctly assess a position so early in the opening. As Links very rightly pointed out, you need to compare the positions you arrive to with other positions known by theory.

Exactly.  8. Nd5 was screaming at me when I saw this position and I couldn't find it in the move list !

Is it O'kelly sicilian or najdorf?

in the o'kelly black play's 2...a6

thanks everyone for your comments I will take them all into account. @ pvmike yes the O'Kelly is 2...a6, but it can transpose.@Prakash_M, it is the O'Kelly, because instead of 2...d6, black has played 2...nc6. To all those recommending nd5, I have edited the game position and added the variation. @Links, thankyou, I will look at the theoretical positions, however I am not completely  new to Sicilian structures since I do play the Sveshnikov and have read Starting Out:the Sveshnikov Sicilian. I also agree that a computer cannot fully analyse a position in one day, but it can give quite a good idea of what is hapenning especially if you have Rybka (yeah I know I am probably too lowly rated for Rybka, but I have been in lots of big tournaments with stronger players than me and thought it might come in useful)

anymore comments

Hi, sorry and everything but this is not an O'Kelly Sicilian.

It can transpose into an O'Kelly if both sides play pretty weirdly. But the O'Kelly is 2  ... a6 and that's all there is to it, sorry. Been playing the O'Kelly for two decades myself and it's fairly sound and very transpositional but it also contains a lot of lines where black is a full tempo up on normal sicilian lines. That's why I like it. 3. c3 doesn't worry me at all. 3 c4 is slightly better. One theoretically correct line is for white to play a Closed Sicilian, in which black's a6 isn't usually played ... but then that's slow for white also.

As a matter of interest has anyone ever played the Wing Gambit against your a6 move ?

Yes.

Did you find that the Wing Gambit had more bite because of the non developmental a6 ?

I used to be very frightened of that because against the wing gambit it's normal to play d5 or do as I do and accept, followed by d5. I lost a couple of times but then started to get the hang of playing that with a6 and nf3 thrown in. The worst thing that ever happened to my O'Kelly is a chap called Dave Tebb played 3 c3 and at that time I made the mistake of playing bishop  g4, which he just used as a target and beat me with an exceptionally fine bit of tactical skill. So ever since I just play 3 ... e6, problem solved!

In fact that taught me a lesson and I just go e6 against a normal Alapin, or maybe Nf6 and then e6. The bishop does not belong on g4 in that opening. The bishop needs to grovel about and finally get developed where it comes into the game just in time and Black gets magnificent counter-chances with it. I very often go Nb d7 and the whole thing is exceptionally flexible.

Yes we've covered that.