Chess for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Chess Openings (CHESS OPENINGS) by Magnus Templar

Author:Magnus Templar [Templar, Magnus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3: Black's First Moves

e4c5 - Sicilian Defense

Easily the most popular and statistically successful opening for black to the nearly universally played 1. e4 from white. While visually similar to the English Opening: Reverse Sicilian, this is a much older opening with a full and rich history. Indeed, enough has been said on the Sicilian to fill several books in their entirety with this opening alone. Let's start by analyzing the opening move from black c4.

Just like in the Reverse Sicilian for white, black aims to control the center of the board from a flanking wing pawn, keeping their important d and e pawns for a potential break in the middle later. Again, if black could ever trade their c pawn for white's d pawn, he could see that as a slight advantage over white, as he could then have a central pawn majority over the white player. As we have seen before, the advanced c pawn also provides a great outpost for black's queen-side knight that is a major factor in how the game usually plays out.

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