02 Feb '15 00:44

Originally posted by KnightStalker47
Bc4 is only good vs. Sicilians if black has played d6, because then Bxe6 sacrifices come into play. Without d6 white will never transpose into any mainlines. It's playable I guess, it's just ugly.

Jumping on the pro-Bc4 side, here's the opening from a recent game of mine on here:

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I think that diagonal is gonna prove useful in the long run more often than not,
it did in my recent game at least:

http://www.redhotpawn.com/annotation/annotationinteractive.php?annotationid=4365

EVENT	Banded Threesomes
SITE	http://www.redhotpawn.com
DATE	2014.12.31
ROUND	1
WHITE	64squaresofpain
BLACK	sle
RESULT	1-0
WHITEELO	1804
BLACKELO	1864

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1.e4 c5 2.Bc4?!