A Crazy Sicilian

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After a 5 min blitz we all can analyze, moving pieces on the board and not caring about the time. That's a nice game with 22.Qh6#, even if it were a 2 hour/game! For me it's also not so comfortable to play against Sicilian defense. In blitz games I always (for about five years already) play 2.b4!? against 1. ... c5 (LisaV, - it's very correct as for "I usually falter as white against the Sicilian because it's so popular and everyone's so booked up on it" - Black can choose only one of the main variations, say, Dragon or Naidorf, - and study it really deeply, whereas White in that case must have a good idea of at least five vast variations, like Paulsen, Naidorf, Dragon, Sveshnikov (with all kinds of variations connected with e7-e5), Scheveningen), - that was one of the reasons for my working on 2.b4!? (another reason was - to give free way for the white "d"-pawn and a chance of domination in the center). Though it's useful to study "normal Smile" ways with 2.Nf3 (or Sveshnikov's favorite 2.c3), too