WEBVTT 00:01.160 --> 00:06.230 Hi there, and that's actually we're going to have a look at the scene in the and in particular after 00:06.230 --> 00:09.770 F or C five, which is set the fence 94. 00:09.860 --> 00:19.250 We're going to look at some Reira choices for black other than Desex or ESX, which are the main choices, 00:19.250 --> 00:21.500 especially these things we're going to look at Desex. 00:21.800 --> 00:24.350 Now, this is called the hyper accelerated dragon. 00:24.620 --> 00:29.390 So Black wants to quickly think how to exert central pressure on defo. 00:31.100 --> 00:35.180 So there are a lot of interesting ideas in that variation in its own right. 00:35.570 --> 00:40.160 Also, there's a six this is called the Ockene variation. 00:40.730 --> 00:45.170 Also, there's the peculiar light affects the Nimmons, which Rubenstein variation. 00:46.080 --> 00:52.940 And this is where the wonderful, very rare B6 Catamount Cattermole of variation. 00:53.480 --> 00:54.940 There's the contrast variation. 00:54.990 --> 00:57.810 Miguel Quynh throws a famous flier with Queen C7. 00:58.340 --> 01:04.880 So yeah, there are all these other variations which you can spend like a lifetime just learning variations 01:04.880 --> 01:07.550 of the Sicilian defense in this course. 01:07.550 --> 01:14.570 I'm not going to claim to have just I'm just naming them here as pointers for further research, but 01:14.750 --> 01:16.460 these are more obscure variations. 01:16.820 --> 01:24.110 So I would actually prioritize knowing more about Desex and ESX than these more obscure alternatives 01:24.260 --> 01:25.070 to my Afri. 01:25.460 --> 01:30.830 Now, if you wanted to sidestep a lot of opening theory, you don't have to play the open Sicilian. 01:31.130 --> 01:36.770 You can play the so-called close Sicilian C3 where the center is kept more close. 01:36.780 --> 01:38.740 There is an exchange in the center quite often. 01:39.170 --> 01:46.160 So for example, play might continue like this where you think cazzo a bishop and then you play often. 01:46.160 --> 01:48.620 You know, this move might geto. 01:49.580 --> 01:53.180 So play might continue a bit like this sometimes. 01:53.870 --> 01:56.330 And you've got familiar plans that you might have seen before. 01:56.400 --> 02:03.290 HPN Force Games based on Kingside later Black has that perk of that the Four-Square quite often, quite 02:03.290 --> 02:08.060 often choice for Queen Side counterplay, for example, like this, quite often in general. 02:08.480 --> 02:11.030 So there are kind of templated plans for both sides. 02:11.540 --> 02:17.870 And because it's more closed, you can it's useful to have these kind of template plans that you can 02:17.870 --> 02:19.160 reuse in your own games. 02:19.160 --> 02:27.170 It's so close to certain territories, more kind of principled, more about the pawns and the plans. 02:27.620 --> 02:31.370 So it's more close than the center is less tactical in nature. 02:31.700 --> 02:38.720 So you might prefer this this might be more your cup of tea to play a close to sit in rather than light, 02:38.720 --> 02:42.710 afraid to be able to play defore so close to sit in Netsky fray. 02:43.250 --> 02:50.780 There's also the Alpen or Seefried Sicilian, which has been the bane of many Sicilian defense players 02:50.780 --> 02:51.500 when they see this. 02:52.220 --> 02:58.010 Yeah, psychologically, these positional choices kind of torture opponents that really wants Krave 02:58.310 --> 02:59.440 the tactical game. 02:59.900 --> 03:02.510 So yeah, there is a bit of psychology going on here. 03:03.950 --> 03:11.120 So Bobby Fisher said he doesn't believe in psychology, he believes in good moves, and yet he was expertly 03:11.120 --> 03:18.200 using his repertoire as quite often throughout his career and especially in 1972, much to kind of maximize 03:18.200 --> 03:25.940 win probability based on, in my view, you know, knowledge of opponents and what they liked and didn't 03:25.940 --> 03:26.210 like. 03:26.240 --> 03:30.650 So I think psychology can and is a very important part of chess. 03:30.920 --> 03:33.890 And my good friend Paul Georges always emphasized that to me. 03:34.190 --> 03:38.570 And that's why, you know, he knows that when I play the Senate defense, he wants to talk to me, 03:38.570 --> 03:39.200 positionally. 03:39.410 --> 03:44.100 And this is the kind of stuff he'd do to me, as if Sifry. 03:44.280 --> 03:48.380 Yeah, it's hugely popular nowadays as well. 03:48.390 --> 03:52.370 So this whole book's whole course is just on the Seefried Sicilian. 03:52.910 --> 03:57.170 One of my favorites is actually the Grumpy Grandpre attack. 03:58.520 --> 04:08.420 Now you can play with an early or we can keep that in mind and play Mitzy free and then play F or delayed 04:08.420 --> 04:10.340 Grandpre attack after Meeteetse free. 04:10.740 --> 04:18.100 I kind of love playing this way where quite often there's very, very nice attacks to be had. 04:18.470 --> 04:26.090 So you play your bishop to see fall and then quite often later you've got to be a bit careful in the 04:26.090 --> 04:30.140 sense but say they played like this quite often. 04:30.140 --> 04:37.340 You can hang back with your bishop and then later look forward to castling and moves like Queeny One 04:37.360 --> 04:37.870 F5. 04:37.880 --> 04:41.540 It can be quite dangerous, especially against the fan Catoe systems. 04:41.900 --> 04:47.690 So the Grandpre attack is very, very entertaining and I might it on that at some point soon. 04:47.700 --> 04:51.620 It's one of my favourites attacking schemes against the Sicilian defense. 04:51.620 --> 04:53.080 But you need to really know what you're doing. 04:53.360 --> 04:57.920 There are a lot of finesses in every position in chess and sometimes you might not want to play Bishop 04:57.920 --> 05:00.290 CIFOR, you might want to be five. 05:00.920 --> 05:08.510 And still the basic principles of the ground attack for attacking later you get to see some really interesting 05:08.510 --> 05:10.820 plans in their own right, independent plans. 05:11.570 --> 05:17.720 So the Grandpre attack, if you want to reveal your hands immediately efore but I usually hide that 05:17.720 --> 05:20.750 idea of a Grand Prix attack with Mitzy friend and F4. 05:20.990 --> 05:21.980 So move, move. 05:21.980 --> 05:25.400 Ordering is a great way to discuss his plans. 05:26.030 --> 05:27.290 Specific move orders. 05:27.770 --> 05:34.770 And as you know more and more about in chess openings, you can switch, move orders and try and get 05:34.770 --> 05:42.440 the opponent on inferior versions of things, or you with slightly, you know, better superior positions 05:42.620 --> 05:43.610 than you normally would. 05:44.360 --> 05:50.560 So Grandpre attack in principle is a four and another great favorite of mine against the seven fans. 05:50.580 --> 05:55.970 To just avoid tons and tons of opening theory is the Smith Moore gambit. 05:56.240 --> 06:01.910 So I used to call this the most left handed, but no, it's actually Smith, Moore, Ogami in that order. 06:02.120 --> 06:02.540 So. 06:03.890 --> 06:09.590 So these two players did a lot of analysis on this and I have experience of this. 06:10.070 --> 06:15.770 So the Smith Moore that if they take this pawn you play Sifry and you accelerate your development. 06:16.130 --> 06:21.170 Now even great players like Michael, how I've tried this out with great success. 06:21.680 --> 06:23.210 So it's worth checking out. 06:23.480 --> 06:30.470 There's a classic work by s.M and International Master who's had fantastic results in many grandmasters 06:30.710 --> 06:31.640 with this gambit. 06:31.790 --> 06:38.180 So if you want a kind of interesting gambit and this will teach you the power of the pieces and it will 06:38.180 --> 06:44.870 avoid maybe the more theoretically prepared to sit in the fence players, then that's a huge recommendation. 06:44.870 --> 06:49.940 I'd like to meet you and for free, without any registry or anything, you can check out my YouTube 06:49.940 --> 06:53.040 playlist on the spit on the Speth Margalla. 06:53.060 --> 06:59.840 If you check out King Squasher, Blitz Smith, Warragamba, I have a ton of games are played with this. 07:00.170 --> 07:03.860 I've sometimes beaten even, you know, jams and jams on occasion. 07:04.280 --> 07:08.890 So with this gambit, it's a great sidestep at all and especially at the fans. 07:08.900 --> 07:17.330 The time controls these sidestep tools to avoid, you know, the open Sicilian where you have the more 07:17.330 --> 07:22.100 prepared your opponents aren't in the shop they are tactically, the more you might be in trouble. 07:22.100 --> 07:27.350 So it's good to know these second move alternatives to 293. 07:27.980 --> 07:33.980 So these are some of the major ones, the close set in the Alpine or Seefried to sit in the Grand Prix 07:33.980 --> 07:36.290 attack, which I usually disguise. 07:36.560 --> 07:43.220 I mean, even with Mitzy free on the first move, I often play into, for example, like this, a Grand 07:43.220 --> 07:43.820 Prix attack. 07:44.090 --> 07:48.530 And I love playing in this manner quite often. 07:50.550 --> 07:57.840 So, for example, you know, there's just joyful plans to be had and you don't need to know tons of 07:57.840 --> 08:05.790 fairy, for example, Quiney one going here, hear five Bishop G5 or Bishop 86, 95, and you've got 08:05.790 --> 08:07.620 a ready made attack aircraft. 08:07.620 --> 08:08.830 And I've won so many games in that. 08:09.120 --> 08:11.760 So anyway, these are great sidestep systems. 08:12.510 --> 08:14.370 I would say in the above. 08:14.580 --> 08:20.280 What's more important for you from the white perspective is to know about the second move alternative's, 08:20.280 --> 08:27.030 in fact, rather than these really obscure variations that the opponent could play based on my Afri, 08:27.630 --> 08:32.960 it's more important if you're going to research the above in greater detail with game examples. 08:33.390 --> 08:36.960 Yeah, check out the second move, alternative systems as priority. 08:37.290 --> 08:43.230 I mean, it's good to know also this more obscure stuff that black can play, especially actually the 08:43.230 --> 08:44.720 top one on the above list. 08:44.730 --> 08:47.100 It accelerates, I accelerate dragon. 08:47.340 --> 08:50.340 So this has some some unique features, essentially. 08:50.340 --> 08:56.370 Quite often Black is allowing it to set up and roxxy by and by the way, because they haven't encouraged 08:56.370 --> 08:57.750 encourage you to block the form. 08:57.990 --> 09:03.030 So that's, for example, distinctive --'s structure, which could come out of the hyper accelerated 09:03.030 --> 09:04.760 dragon in particular. 09:05.370 --> 09:09.810 So playing with or against the Moxey boyens, there are some pawn structures. 09:09.810 --> 09:14.990 It's good to know certain template plans for how to deal with them on both sides. 09:15.420 --> 09:18.390 So yeah, chess is a very, very rich, complex game. 09:18.960 --> 09:26.130 And yeah, I thought I should at least give you a name overview and general gist of this rich culture. 09:26.130 --> 09:28.530 We have even this is said in the fence. 09:28.920 --> 09:30.750 So easy for C5. 09:31.110 --> 09:34.460 Yeah, there's a lot beneath the bonnet, so to speak. 09:34.470 --> 09:35.940 There's a lot of details. 09:37.410 --> 09:42.120 So Foynes take the variations maybe which attracts you in some way, investigate them. 09:42.510 --> 09:45.270 Maybe you find out you don't investigate something else. 09:45.630 --> 09:46.980 The world's your oyster here. 09:47.310 --> 09:51.780 The Sicilian defense is for a very, very interesting stuff to examine for both sides. 09:52.140 --> 09:53.850 OK, and so much.