Sicilian Defense: Open, Classic, Yates Variation?

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Why does this variation have a name if it's seemingly a blunder? I was under the impression that variations with names are usually somewhat playable except perhaps at the highest level. Is there strong counter play for the knight?
 
EDIT: While we're here, can you critique my game? This is 10 minutes Blitz and the game ended after he disconnected around 5 minutes.

 

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I want to know the answer too lol +1

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I'm not sure on why, but someone just used against me and the blunder was called a "book move" by the report. I mean, what?!?!

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Because chess.com doesn't have a very good opening database?  365chess is better for that and shows the move played twice in over 2,500 games in the database.  

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Huh that’s so strange, no clue, maybe it’s some sort of OP gambit?

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so, not solved yet?

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a lot of unsound lines have names

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yes, it makes no sense

another example is that after e4 f5 all kinds of moves are shown before exf5, for the same reason

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Luckily, Yates has more solid variations to his name in the King's and Queen's Indian, even in the Ruy Lopez

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Yates *never played* this blunder with White in the Sicilian, and it is very odd to see an opening blunder given a "variation" name.

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ctsky wrote:
Why does this variation have a name if it's seemingly a blunder? I was under the impression that variations with names are usually somewhat playable except perhaps at the highest level. Is there strong counter play for the knight?
 
EDIT: While we're here, can you critique my game? This is 10 minutes Blitz and the game ended after he disconnected around 5 minutes.
 

It's complete nonsense. It isn't a variation and it loses a knight.

Why comment when he misses taking the knight. Giving it a name is ridiculous and misleads people.

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Optimissed έγραψε:
ctsky wrote:
Why does this variation have a name if it's seemingly a blunder? I was under the impression that variations with names are usually somewhat playable except perhaps at the highest level. Is there strong counter play for the knight?
 
EDIT: While we're here, can you critique my game? This is 10 minutes Blitz and the game ended after he disconnected around 5 minutes.
 

It's complete nonsense. It isn't a variation and it loses a knight.

Why comment when he misses taking the knight. Giving it a name is ridiculous and misleads people.

It makes sense- look at #8 which shows a quite trendy Najdorf variation. It's no secret that the ChessDot Com database is terrible regarding transpositions.

And the O.P. may not get much from the comments, as he closed his account more than six years ago.

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Indeed; and it should be obvious that this Yates variation is bogus. If anything it's just a way of playing games at knight odds and its inclusion in a database means that database is disreputable.

Still, it could be interesting to others.

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Optimissed έγραψε:

Indeed; and it should be obvious that this Yates variation is bogus. If anything it's just a way of playing games at knight odds and its inclusion in a database means that database is disreputable.

Still, it could be interesting to others.

The variation took its name from the following game (where the correct move order was used) and white did NOT blunder a knight.

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pfren wrote:
Optimissed έγραψε:

Indeed; and it should be obvious that this Yates variation is bogus. If anything it's just a way of playing games at knight odds and its inclusion in a database means that database is disreputable.

Still, it could be interesting to others.

The variation took its name from the following game (where the correct move order was used) and white did NOT blunder a knight.

Well played by white there.

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