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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): The winner of the game of the season winter 2015/2016 for the "Sixth Sense" team is Nairobigal. I am annotating it at the request of the lovely elenapetrova - I never can resist her when she asks me to do something! So it starts as a Sicilian Defence. White appears to be heading for a closed variation. Black does the same developing move. White gets her other knight out. It is wise to play this… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): This is a very short game, with white rather surprisingly getting mated! So it starts as a Sicilian Defence. This seems to indicate the closed variations. I reply in kind. White develops her other knight. I keep my options open. And white transposes now into the Open Sicilian. So I take. She takes back. I continue to develop, with the main line. She continues with the Richter-Rauzer Attack,… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): This was played in the National League - 4NCL, Division 3 North, Pool D. A Sicilian. He opts for a closed variation. Keeping my options open... Signalling that he is playing a Grand Prix attack sort of set-up. I think I should have played Nd4 here attacking the Bishop. It was played out of habit - I normally I meet this move after 2. Nf3 and if Nd4 white can exchange knights. This is what I… |
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Annotated by dafool (1752): Oh, how I hate Sicilian, it is 3rd on my list of openings I do not wish to face. Before white's 4. Bc4 Chessbase live found more than 2000 games with these moves. Now we are down to a mere 784 games. Gameknot's database also starts to give equal "chances" for both white and black. This was a bit surprise. I was expecting d6. Now we are out of the "official" Gameknot theory. No 1900… |
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Annotated by ukuyo (1200): "One swallow doesn't make a summer" let's go through a draw game:
svenne13 (1812) vs. lecce-wulf (2188) "One swallow doesn't make a summer"
Let's go through a draw game: svenne13 (1812) vs. lecce-wulf (2188) 33rd GK tournament. Invitation to play a "Sicilianish" game. B30 Sicilian (four Knights).
Straight Bb5 is better as Svenne played it later in the game. Also Bd5 is very popular in… |
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Annotated by dylam (1200): closed sicilian, very popular these days. don't know why...
in my opinion it's a bit passive for white. why not d4?
it seems white is afraid from the main lines here. so, black breaks through! it is beeter to take the pawn. where would the Knight go after d4? black gained lots of space in an opening he should fight for this space. the Knight plays for the third time now... what with the … |
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Annotated by smoran90 (1200): This game shoes how simple developing may not be enough to get an advantage from the opening. Sicilian Defense. Minor mistake. If white is playing without an early d4 against the Sicilian, and they want an advantage, they should go for a system involving Nge2,g3,Bg2 and a later f4. Nf3 impedes the move f4, but the game should stil be equal. Black now adopts the system previously mentioned.… |
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Annotated by afonsoz (936): The Sicilian Defense. It's the best scoring response to 1. e4 at master level. Here, Black fights for victory. Normally, White focuses in the Kingside and Black looks for counterplay in the Queenside. A natural but uncommon move. Other choices are 2. d4 or 2. Nf3, that lead to extensively studied positions. A very weak move. There is one opening principle that is almost always true : one… |
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Annotated by guy04 (1200): Comment un roi mal protégé aurait pu être réduit en bouillie lorsque la dame et les tours adverses sont encore là. Heureusement pour les noirs, ce fut une occation ratée. Un peu téméraire, mais il faut mettre du piquant dans la vie quelquefois... Ça va devenir un peu trop piquant. Oui, les pions noirs sont un peu trop avancés en face du roi noir. Faut être logique et… |
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Annotated by rpilaud (1200): This is off book. I was worried about a bishop attack. After the game, Davis said this was an intentional sacrifice to open up the queenside-bishop attack on the king. I think this is the strongest response to such attack. The bishop was hiding and ... ... white missed it. Fatal error. White makes an excellent effort to stay in the game by grouping his bishops and… |
