Semi-Open · a defense for Black
Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Normal System, Zagorovsky Line
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1.e4c52.Nf3a63.d4cxd44.Qxd4
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Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Normal System, Zagorovsky Line84k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
67%57k53%
9.3%7.8k54%
9.2%7.8k55%
7.3%6.1k53%
3.4%2.9k54%
1.7%1.4k38%
1.1%92256%
0.3%29149%
0.1%11646%
0.1%10218%
Famous games in this line4 master games
Polgar, Judit (2595) – Polgar, Zsuzsa (2560)Rakhmatullaev, Almas (2425) – Faizulaev, A. (2354)Gajsin, Evgenij (2448) – Andre, Wolfgang (2226)Mamatov, Melis (2225) – Ushenina, A. (2423)Heroes of this opening Polgar, Judit · Faizulaev, A. · Gajsin, Evgenij · Ushenina, A.
- Family
- Sicilian Defense
- Category
- Semi-Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- B28
- Line
- 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4
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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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