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Chess- Learn the Sicilian Defense

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Sicilian defense -

A great defense against the popular semi-open openings

Sicilian defense -

A great defense against the popular semi-open openings

Added: 3/22/07

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By: Guest 10 months ago

Sicilian defense is great but you have to mention that the white used a very aggressive attack the Ruy lopez attack add as he mentioned its pop fisher method. players need to practice the varieties and it still depend on focus and how much good you are....

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By: Guest 11 months ago

suckers i have lots moves against that

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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By: Guest More than a year ago

nice move man u should try chesscube.com

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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I am at a loss for words with the video. how did this vid get 69 thousand views. This was the worst video iv ever seen on the sicilian defence and on chess in general. Sorry guys but teaching chess is not your thing and you should try to go a different direction with your videos. I am really sad after this video cause i will never get the 5 mins back that i wasted on this video. Why would black even go down those lines? I would like to play you two and show you how to really play chess.

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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Ahhh, but do you notice the whit's dark-squared bishop.

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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By: Guest More than a year ago

At 3:55 in the video couldnt the black rook taken white rook and delay checkmate?

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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i think zat everyone in zee worlt can go to france... and burn.

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By: Guest More than a year ago

hello

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Chess- Learn the Sicilian defense

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that opens with the moves 1.e4 c5. At what is known as the master level, the Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. One sixth (17 percent) of all games between grandmasters, and one quarter (25 percent) of the games in the Chess Informant database, begin with this opening. Grandmaster John Nunn notes that the reason for the Sicilian Defence’s popularity “is its combative nature; in many lines Black is playing not just for equality, but for the advantage. The drawback is that White often obtains an early initiative, so Black has to take care not to fall victim to a quick attack.” The earliest recorded notes on the Sicilian Defence date back to the late 16th century by the Italian chess players Giulio Polerio and Gioachino Greco. Photo By: Shefaet

Chess Corner

The Sicilian Defence

http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/openings/sicilian/sicilian_defence.htm

Chess Games

A wide variety of chess games as they were played by the masters

http://www.johnpratt.com/items/chess/menu.html

New York Times

Chess; a defense method that calls for quick thinking.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D81E3FF935A15754C0A961948260

Learn the Sicilian defense

Gleb: Hi! In our days semi-open openings are very popular. White begins his game with e2 - e4, and black can choose between moves of Nf6, Alekhin defense, or e6, French defense, or d5 Scandinavian defense, except we move e5. But today we are going to see Sicilian defense, and it begins with move c7 - c5.

Igor: White goes, Nf3.

Gleb: Black develops his knight.

Igor: White take the center.

Gleb: Now, black exchanges pawns.

Igor: White exchanges pawn.

Gleb: In this situation black decides to put his bishop on the big diagonal.

Igor: Why black cannot take this knight?

Gleb: When black takes knight, white can take it back and the queen is very strong in the center. Open this diagonal.

Igor: I want to defend my knight with bishop.

Gleb: Bishop goes to g7.

Igor: White makes favorite move for the bishop, Bc4.

Gleb: Now black develops another knight and wants to capture this pawn.

Igor: White defends his pawn, Nc3.

Gleb: Black wants to protect his king and put him in the king side.

Igor: White wants to protect this bishop and puts bishop in the safe place, in b3.

Gleb: Yeah, he put bishop on the safe place, but black wants to change his knight by its bishop.

Igor: But this move is not good, knight goes to the side file.

Gleb: -- side file of the board.

Igor: -- of the board, and white goes to center.

Gleb: Okay. Now the knight has to escape. If the knight goes to h5, white can win it easily.

Igor: d2 - d4.

Gleb: In our game, knight goes to e8.

Igor: It's an idea for forfeiture. Bishop takes this pawn, check!

Gleb: This is very beautiful sacrifice. If black takes with bishop by rook --

Igor: White goes, Ne6.

Gleb: The queen has no place to escape and if black takes another piece, he has lost the queen and lost the game. Black choose to take this bishop with his king.

Igor: But white goes to put as risk.

Gleb: Black takes another piece.

Igor: White goes and make check.

Gleb: King has to escape.

And once the King starts to travel, it is the beginning of the end...

Igor: I go, this pawn, check! Rook, check! Rook goes to center, check!

Gleb: Another check.

Igor: Check! The queen makes check.

Gleb: Take the pawn.

Igor: Check mate!!

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