Semi-Open · a defense for Black
Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Venice System, Barcza Line
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1.e4c52.Nf3a63.c3Nf6
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Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Venice System, Barcza Line34k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
62%21k55%
11%3.7k49%
11%3.6k48%
6.8%2.3k48%
6.5%2.2k46%
1%34244%
0.9%31940%
0.6%21851%
0.2%6940%
0.2%5348%
Famous games in this line90 master games
Almasi, Zoltan (2668) – Varga, Zoltan (2541)Solak, Dragan (2598) – Benidze, Davit (2495)Rombaldoni, Denis (2418) – Areshchenko, Alexander (2673)Kritz, Leonid (2578) – Rashkovsky, Nukhim N (2512)Zhigalko, S. (2638) – Kalashian, D. (2400)Popovic, Petar (2545) – Barlov, Dragan (2485)Haubro, M. (2365) – Granda Zuniga, J. (2656)Harika, D. (2518) – Dzagnidze, N. (2502)Heroes of this opening Almasi, Zoltan · Zhigalko, S. · Popovic, Petar · Granda Zuniga, J.
- Family
- Sicilian Defense
- Category
- Semi-Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- B28
- Line
- 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. c3 Nf6
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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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