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| Posted by roland_l mailcafe.net 1/26/2006 23:50:59 Play online chess |  Subject: Your favorite line as black in the Sicillian ...Message: Anyone care to share on this? |
| Posted by vegeta17 mailcafe.net 1/27/2006 04:22:22 Play online chess | Message: I just started playing the exact same way. I've recently started study on the matter but the books I have are usually based on white making the best move. This doesn't seem to happen much in my rating group so it is making for some interesting games. Everyone I've played so far castles short and I surely have problems attacking that side considering my dark square bishop. Better to play for material? I'm just getting started so I'd love to see were this thread goes. Brian |
| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 1/27/2006 04:50:07 Play online chess | Sicilian Najdorf Message: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6! it is always exciting to see, what white will play in his 6th move! Good luck! Best wishes Cairo |
| Posted by roland_l mailcafe.net 1/27/2006 21:00:59 Play online chess | Cairo ... Message: 1. what to do with my e pawn? e6 or e5? Care to share principles behind the differences here? 2. What to do when white puts his queen on d2, and then Bg5? Put the question to the bishop? If so, the Bishop sac (Bxh6 gxh6, Qxh6) seems particularly dangerous to me, but I'm not sure. 3. Good aggressive ideas on the queen side after devoloping? |
| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 1/28/2006 00:33:32 Play online chess | It's Message: After white's 6th move 6.Bg5 e6 follow by 7.f4 black has a choice of the notorious "poisened pawn" variation with his 7.... Qb6!? or a slowly development with 6.... Be7, again a matter of taste and temper. No matter what black or white decide of lines in the Sicilian Najdorf, it almost always lead to unbalanced positions and in many casses to opposite castling and this is really what you want, to bring the game across the drawing line! Good "skullcrushing" onwards! Bw. Cairo |
| Posted by masros mailcafe.net 1/28/2006 10:56:05 Play online chess | Message: |
| Posted by snakeking mailcafe.net 1/28/2006 21:56:02 Play online chess | sveshnikov Message: |
| Posted by ruzina mailcafe.net 1/29/2006 01:17:32 Play online chess | Sicilian Message: It’s an interesting opening, but I’ve had some problems with it lately, getting bad positions against strong opponents. Maybe Najdorf and Sveshnikov are better. But anyway Sicilians are fun, because they are challenging white early. Brave choise :-) |
| Posted by ionadowman mailcafe.net 1/29/2006 11:15:46 Play online chess | Roland_l - in answer... Message: Cheers, Ion |
| Posted by ionadowman mailcafe.net 1/29/2006 18:43:45 Play online chess | Some further investigation... Message: |
| Posted by schnarre mailcafe.net 1/31/2006 23:03:29 Play online chess | Hmmnnn... Message: I myself use the offbeat line 2...Na6. Not easy to use, but scrappy. |
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