Great stuff! I've been studying the Four Knight Sicilian with IM SIelecki's "My First Opening Repertoire for Black" course on chessable, so apparently, he also thought it was good for beginners 🙂 I really enjoy it for all the qualities you point out: You don't have to remember all the much (knights on natural squares, pin the knight on c3, and push d5 at the right time), e6 avoids a lot of attacking f7 nonsense from white, and there are some Qa5+ tricks that can get you an early lead. Also if they don't play into the open sicilian, which they often don't at the beginner level,, the setup is principled and still works well for lots of other responses.
for the Bg5 line if inserting h6 Bh4 even more powerful, then Nxc6 bxc6 e5 Bb4 exf Qa5 black is not just worse but straight up lost, one of the fave tricks. another similar lines always Rb8 currently learning your Nf3 100 rep loving the coverage, the rev grunfeld lines after c4 you opted Nc3 and allow Bb4 seems immediate Qa5 is much more forceful and scores massive. Look forward to testing it more
Thank you, - very educational!!! How do you position FourKnight vs Nimzowitsch Sicilian? Is one more suitable for beginners then the other? Maybe different recommendations depending on the rating? Thanks,
Here's a Lichess study with the lines covered in the video: lichess.org/study/eg3Y97cJ
Your channel is underated. Great stuff
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Thanks for the interesting ideas shown in the Sicilian lines for Beginners , waiting for the more theoretical lines
Cool, I will do another video on those
Great stuff! I've been studying the Four Knight Sicilian with IM SIelecki's "My First Opening Repertoire for Black" course on chessable, so apparently, he also thought it was good for beginners 🙂 I really enjoy it for all the qualities you point out: You don't have to remember all the much (knights on natural squares, pin the knight on c3, and push d5 at the right time), e6 avoids a lot of attacking f7 nonsense from white, and there are some Qa5+ tricks that can get you an early lead. Also if they don't play into the open sicilian, which they often don't at the beginner level,, the setup is principled and still works well for lots of other responses.
Christof is the man!
Please keep these coming!
for the Bg5 line if inserting h6 Bh4 even more powerful, then Nxc6 bxc6 e5 Bb4 exf Qa5 black is not just worse but straight up lost, one of the fave tricks. another similar lines always Rb8
currently learning your Nf3 100 rep loving the coverage, the rev grunfeld lines after c4 you opted Nc3 and allow Bb4 seems immediate Qa5 is much more forceful and scores massive. Look forward to testing it more
That's a nice line in the Four Knight!
For the Reti line, I don't mind allowing Bb4 because it's not a good move anyway.
Needed this!!
Thank you, - very educational!!!
How do you position FourKnight vs Nimzowitsch Sicilian? Is one more suitable for beginners then the other? Maybe different recommendations depending on the rating? Thanks,
Taimonov?
Most of the time White won't commit to an Open Sicilian at all, just some dumb Bowdler and McDonell stuff
According to the stats the Open Sicilian is the most popular option at 1600 Lichess.