Sicilian with 2. Bc4
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Jan 7, 2011
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I see this all the time as well. If you go to Opening Explorer under the Learn tab at the top of chess.com and put in thise moves you'll see the Bowlder Attack come up. Go under there for games and the discussion. I have played it your way with knights out or faster without knights.
I played as black against that OTB several times and it went: 1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 e6. 3. d3 d5 4. exd5 exd5 5. Bb5+ Bd7 6. Bxd7 Nxd7. Just exchanging off his bishop and having two pawns out in the middle. Instead of Bd7, the computer sayd Kf8 is also good and you follow up with Qb6.
Your variation (which I play as well) is obviously slightly better for black already, but I find it annoying that white can pressure your d-pawn with moves like Nc3 and Bg5, forcing you to either protect it with your bishop/rook (passive) or move it to d4 when white's bishop on b3/a2 suddenly becomes powerful. Perhaps one should just continue like a normal Sicilian with e6/Nc6/a6 when white will play a4, weakening b4 and forgoing queenside castling, but then white might play like in a Fischer-Sozin (moving a pawn to f5 to undermine e6) where the bishop is useful on c4. I don't think 2.Bc4 is utterly bad for white, even though when beginners play it I want to punish it immediately :P
I get this move quite often against me in blitz.
What is the goal of this move? Most of the times I play against this move the bishop gets to be inert for like 20 moves because it is stuck behind pawns.
is this a correct way?Most of the times I play it like this: