@juncture1864;
I think the answer to the Sicilian Defence will always lie in playing an open variation. Remember, you are attacking, black is defending! But cancer is entirely the word word to describe it.
I would like to share a quote with you from Vlastimil Jansa in his book, Dynamics of chess strategy:
'It should be added that it is precisely the 'Sicilian' that has the rare quality of being not only flexible and dynamic but also providing a strategically complex view of various fine points of play. I am talking particularly about the 'open battle' in the Sicilian. I have always been sorry for those players employing, as White, the closed variation or such moves as for example 2 c3 to the exclusion of the open game. This may be practical but also it is a mechanism which voluntarily prevents them reaching the stars. There is much they are robbing themselves of. Besides that, they are like pupils who have coped with the multiplication tables but will not dare to pick up logarithms...'
I think the answer to the Sicilian Defence will always lie in playing an open variation. Remember, you are attacking, black is defending! But cancer is entirely the word word to describe it.
I would like to share a quote with you from Vlastimil Jansa in his book, Dynamics of chess strategy:
'It should be added that it is precisely the 'Sicilian' that has the rare quality of being not only flexible and dynamic but also providing a strategically complex view of various fine points of play. I am talking particularly about the 'open battle' in the Sicilian. I have always been sorry for those players employing, as White, the closed variation or such moves as for example 2 c3 to the exclusion of the open game. This may be practical but also it is a mechanism which voluntarily prevents them reaching the stars. There is much they are robbing themselves of. Besides that, they are like pupils who have coped with the multiplication tables but will not dare to pick up logarithms...'