Semi-Open · a defense for Black
Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Barmen Defense, Milner-Barry Attack
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1.e4c52.c3d53.exd5Qxd54.d4Nc65.Nf3cxd46.cxd4e57.Nc3Bb48.Be2
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Barmen Defense, Milner-Barry Attack9.6k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
61%5.9k44%
18%1.7k46%
8.8%84251%
4.2%40549%
4.1%39741%
1.7%16641%
1.5%14437%
0.1%1145%
0.1%825%
0.1%625%
Famous games in this line83 master games
Vysochin, Spartak (2573) – Shishkin, Vadim (2507)Har Zvi, Ronen (2500) – Sutovsky, Emil (2530)Khamrakulov, Ibragim S (2592) – Minzer, Claudio Javier (2410)Vysochin, Spartak (2584) – Zavgorodniy, Sergiy (2418)Liss, Eran (2465) – Sutovsky, Emil (2530)Ponomariov, Ruslan (2555) – Savic, Miodrag R (2430)Khamrakulov, Ibragim S (2504) – Gaponenko, Inna (2458)Szabo, G ROM. (2541) – Secheres, Ad (2404)Heroes of this opening Savic, Miodrag R · Szabo, G ROM.
- Family
- Sicilian Defense
- Category
- Semi-Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- B22
- Line
- 1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. cxd4 e5 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. Be2
Aggressive
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No reply to 1.e4 is played more. Fischer made the Najdorf his main weapon, and Kasparov's Sicilians are pillars of chess history — the Scheveningen against Karpov, the Dragon he unveiled against Anand in 1995. When you play 1...c5 you refuse symmetry, the same refusal that carried two world champions.
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