Sicilian O'Kelly variation

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pdve

Hi everyone,

 

I have a question about the O Kelly sicilian. Is this considered a sound opening? What are the main ideas for Black?

 

TIA.

Yigor

This is just the Hyperaccelerated Najdorfgrin.png

Paul1e4

Don't play against it the way I did.

 

FrogCDE

Against 3.c3, often given as 'the refutation', I like to play e6, then meet 4,d4 with d5, bringing about a French like position where Black often brings the white-squared bishop to b5 to swap it off, 

Zugerzwang
It is playable, but the Najdorf is better. Black's idea is if White plays the usual 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4, he can play 4 ... e5 and White's knight is deprived of going to its best square, Nd4-b5. Someone played it against Fischer once when he was young, but it appears he saw the trick after 3 ... cxd4 and he transposed into the Smith-Morra Gambit with 4 c3. As most opening books should tell you, White retains the advantage with 3 c3 or 3 c4.
soufstar

good