{"id":12420,"date":"2022-05-24T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12420"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:25:24","slug":"chess-sicilian-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12420","title":{"rendered":"Chess: Sicilian Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Resources: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chess.com\/openings\/Sicilian-Defense\" target=\"_blank\">chess.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.365chess.com\/opening.php?m=3&amp;n=3&amp;ms=e4.c5&amp;ns=3.3\">365chess.com<\/a> (B20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.e4 c5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sicilian Defense, one of the oldest, an opening that goes for aggressive center play, dating back to being mentioned in the 1500s, has 3 main variations:<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Closed<\/span><\/strong> (3. Nc3),<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Open<\/span><\/strong> (3. Nf3) and<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alapin<\/span><\/strong> (3. c3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the <strong>Open variation<\/strong>, there are 3 standard lines:<br>* <strong>1.e4 c5 2.Nf3<\/strong> d6 3.d4 cxd4 <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">4.Nxd4<\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0<br>or<br><strong>1.e4 c5 2. Nf3<\/strong> e6\u00a0(<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">French variation<\/span><\/strong>)<br><strong>1.e4 c5 2.Nf3<\/strong> Nc6 3.d4 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.365chess.com\/opening.php?m=6&amp;n=45&amp;ms=e4.c5.Nf3.Nc6.d4&amp;ns=3.3.4.37.45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B32 line<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*The <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">4.Nxd4<\/mark><\/strong>&nbsp;line can be followed by .. Nf6 5. Nc3 leading into two new variations:<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Najdorf variation<\/span><\/strong> (5. .. a6) and<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dragon variation<\/span><\/strong> (5. .. g6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources: chess.com, 365chess.com (B20) 1.e4 c5 Sicilian Defense, one of the oldest, an opening that goes for aggressive center play, dating back to being mentioned in the 1500s, has 3 main variations:Closed (3. Nc3),Open (3. Nf3) andAlapin (3. c3) For &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12425,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions\/12425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}