Chess General: Grunfeld Defense Edition. Famous/ Favorite games edition. Discuss openings, theories, pro discussion, etc
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Luke Gray
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Caleb Gray
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Liam Turner
>inb4 that guy who worships Bill Wall and thinks that Bird's Opening is acceptable at all
Isaiah Nguyen
>when you want to work on your kings gambit but all the people online play sicilian
Joshua Hughes
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Henry Gutierrez
No it isn't. The Sicilian is no more complicated than any given open game opening. It just has more possible branchings, but as long as you understand the general pawn structure and how it's supposed to work for you, you can muddle through with a minimum of book knowledge, at least against other 1600ish players.
Jackson Perry
The most complex openings are some of the Indian Defenses, which can get really positional and subtle. It's true that certain Sicilian variations like the Nadjorf are ridiculously confusing, but unless you're a GM, you probably won't play those anyway.
Juan Morales
The best way to get out of playing a Sicilian is to respond with 2. c4, thereby transposing into an English Opening.
Tyler Green
>I absolutely LOVE leaving a huge and totally unecessary hole on d4 when my opponent has already pushed his c pawn so can develop his queenside knight easily.
Jeremiah Lee
This is known as the Staunton-Cochrane Variation incidentally, because it appeared in a famous game played by Howard Staunton and John Cochrane in 1842.
Here we see it (via transposition) in Kasparov-Beliavsky, 1991.