Opening · played as White
Alapin Sicilian: White's Side
Meet the Sicilian with 2.c3, build the big centre with d4, and play a normal game a tempo up in development. No Najdorf theory, no Dragon, no memorising twenty move orders, one system against everything.
A position this opening is aiming for.
- You play
- White
- Variations covered
- 50
The main line
1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 d6 5.Bc4 e6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.O-O cxd4 8.cxd4 O-O
Some of the variations
- 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 d6 5.Bc4 e6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.O-O cxd4
- 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 d6 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.Bxd7+ Qxd7
- 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nf3 d6 6.cxd4 Nc6 7.Bc4 Nb6
- 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.cxd4 d6 7.Bc4 Nb6
- 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 e6 5.c4 Ne7 6.d5 d6 7.exd6 Nf5
- 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 e6 5.c4 Nc7 6.dxc5 Bxc5 7.Nc3 Nc6
…and 44 more in the trainer.
Train it
ChessReflex drills the branch points where a line splits rather than making you replay it move by move, so a repertoire this size is a handful of decisions instead of hundreds of moves. Free, and no account needed to start.
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