Answer to the sicilian

Originally posted by Dutch Defense
This should have been the quoted text: tomtom232 is a knight who says Ni!, it wasn't because it was something completely different. That's a misrepresented post.

Originally posted by tomtom232
I [b]REMOVED your post and said why because it is annoying and offensive.[/b]

Originally posted by Dutch Defense
There's nothing offensive about my post and I'm sorry if you feel that way. See about 6 or 7 of my posts in this thread.

My best line is the c3 sicillian followed by nf3 aiming for destructive pawn centres being established at d4. Or if you are very adventurous just play nf3 then d4 and you run into some of the main lines of the dragon or accelerated dragon.

Originally posted by Tyrannosauruschex
NO!!!! Dont encourage c3, everybody will start playing it if you reccomend it.

Well yeah, you are more likely to get mated if you misplay the yugoslav whereas the c3 you tend to get slowly ground down (or even mated if unlucky) but at least as black you get the chances to have a good hack at whites king before the final curtain falls

As I said in a previous post, there can be little doubt that, objectively speaking, Open Sicilians (2.Nf3 and 3.d4) are best. I know there is a lot of theory to learn, but correspondence chess is ideal for that. Since I started on this site, I've considerably increased the proportion of Open Sicilians I play OTB.

If you want to do it gradually, you could start off with a 'hybrid' repertoire. For example after 2.Nf3 d6 you could play 3.d4 and learn how to play against the Najdorf, Dragon, Classical etc. (The Fischer-Sozin might be worth considering, since it can be used against several systems.) Against 2...Nc6 you could play 3.Bb5 and against 2...e6 3.c3 (both quite respectable anti-Sicilians) till you have the time and confidence to try Open Sicilians against these too.

By playing c3 I usually end up in a kind of dragon or richter-rauzer but with a strong pawn centre at d4 and e4 which is usually to stifling for the opponent😛