Refuting the Sicilian

Thanks to a beer and brandy (*) induced mouse-slip on playchess.com, I have at last found a refutation of that most troublesome of Black defences, the Sicilain:

what does g4 do for you?

Heh - that just might work! Already Nf6 looks uncomfortable.

I've actually seen this before in one of my opening books !!!

"Quite bizarre is 3.g4?! e6 4.Bg2 h5!? (quiter moves aimed at exploiting the weak squares f4 and h4 should be considered)
5.gxh5 Nf6 6.d3 Rxh5 7.Nge2 d5 8.Ng3 Rh8 9.Bg5 with reasonable chances, Hort-Kindermann, Bath 1983."

Gary Lane

Winning With The Closed Sicilian

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Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
"Quite bizarre is 3.g4?! e6 4.Bg2 h5!? (quiter moves aimed at exploiting the weak squares f4 and h4 should be considered)
5.gxh5 Nf6 6.d3 Rxh5 7.Nge2 d5 8.Ng3 Rh8 9.Bg5 with reasonable chances, Hort-Kindermann, Bath 1983."

Gary Lane

Winning With The Closed Sicilian

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[pgn] 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g4 e6 4.Bg2 h5 5.gxh5 Nf6 6.d3 Rxh5 7.Nge2 d5 8.Ng3 Rh8 9.Bg5 [/pgn]

The mouseslip variation has been employed by GM Hort !!!

Originally posted by GrandRADMaster
what does g4 do for you?

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Thanks to a beer and brandy (*) induced mouse-slip on playchess.com, I have at last found a refutation of that most troublesome of Black defences, the Sicilain:

[pgn]
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g4
[/pgn]

I have a 100% record with it so far this evening.


(*) Not in the same glass

Originally posted by diskamyl
first of all it is very flexible. it gives the white coloured bishop two opportunuties. it also claims an edge on the kingside, and initiates an attack, putting black right on his shoes, where he has lost precious tempi trying to grab some irrelevant space on the queenside.

Originally posted by black beetle
Why is it "flexible"? I would bring up a reversed anti Keres Attack with the standard (spread the word!) Scheveningen formation with the black pawns on h3, e6 and d6 and them dark Horsies on c6 and f6 and all, and then I would enjoy a game full of machineries
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black could play g5... then It would seem even?

Originally posted by black beetle
then I would enjoy a game full of machineries

Originally posted by diskamyl
I don't know what you're talking about 🙂, but I was just kidding.

Originally posted by Ragnorak
That's what I was thinking.

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You can murder people with the Smith-Morra, especially if they aren't prepared for it.