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

…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.

Open Alapin Sicilian: White's Side