Death to the Sicilian !!!
Does anybody remember this old video (in the ancient VCR format) called Silicide? It is rather old but I recently took a look at it and found it was a gem!
The whole video is about White avoiding the main Open Sicilian which normally arises after
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 (any move) 3. d4.
White avoids d4 and instead goes
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 (any move) 3. Nc3.
Point Break movie download I had the chance to watch this video in computer format and it was pretty long at about 1 hour. At first it put me to sleep very fast not because of the content but because I watched it at night after I finished my work. SIlly me.
However, the past few days I managed to watch the entire video in one sitting and have been rewatching it over and over again trying to predict the some of the variation before the video mentions it.
I enjoyed it because I saw that it was pretty practical as it’s quite easy for many of the position discussed to arise in a real game.
It discusses how to play against the various popular black replies.
- 2….Nc6
- 2…e6
- 2…d6
- 2…. Nf6 /2…g6/2….a6
I really liked the suggestion given by Davies against the hyper accelarated Dragon which I see so many juniors like to use against me.
1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. h4
However it was placed at the end of the video and classified as rare and Davies only comment was as a 2. g6 player himself, he find it hard to ‘meet’ h4 in this position. No games or variations were discussed. Naturally that left me unsatisfied. So..
I dug up my personal collection of TWIC (This Week in Chess) on my harddisk 
(also bundled with my Malaysian Megabase 2008) which has a modest 734,492 games and found 19 games with this position. From the stats feature in Chessbase (shortcut key ‘S’) I saw that it was favourable to White:
Since the games in TWIC is of above average quality, going thru the 19 games gave me an idea what to play for in the position. I love the search and statistic feature of Chessbase.
Here’s a sample game:
[Event "PK Lei SB"]
[Site "Netherlands"]
[Date "2002.07.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Van Putten, Henk"]
[Black "Van Dijk, Rob"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "2148"]
[BlackElo "1822"]
[PlyCount "73"]
download I Sell the Dead dvd 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 g6 3. h4 h5 4. Bc4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Ng5 Nh6 7. f4 d6 8. Nd5 Bg4 9. Be2 Qd7 10. Ne3 Bxe2 11. Qxe2 f6 12. Nf3 f5 13. d3 e5 14. fxe5 Nxe5 15. Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Nd5 Bg3+ 17. Kd1 O-O-O 18. Bxh6 Rxh6 19. Qe3 f4 20. Nxf4 Bxf4 21. Qxf4 Rhh8 22. Qg3 Qg7 23. c3 d5 24. exd5 Rxd5 25. Kc2 Rf8 26. Rhf1 Rdf5 27. Rxf5 Rxf5 28. b3 Qf6 29. Rd1 Rf4 30. Rd2 Rg4 31. Qe3 Qxh4 32. Qxc5+ Kb8 33. Rf2 b6 34. Rf8+ Kb7 35. Rf7+ Ka6 36. Qc8+ Kb5 37. c4+ 1-0
I really envy kids these days. They have access to tools such as Chessbase, videos, Opening Encyclopedia CDs, Megabases etc. If I had these things back when I was young (not that I’m very old now 
) , I would have made great improvements in my chess.
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nas : 29 June 2008 at 5:16 am
Can I ask one question, after 15 move (instead of playing long game), why not Qh8+, then followed up with BxQ, then RxB Check mate? or I might be wrong..
Just a thought and enjoy to discuss chess..
Beginner,
Nas.