Closed Sicilian with 6 Be3
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Closed Sicilian with 6 Be3
Yet another strong player manages to find a blunder that has been known for donkeys years. Today in the Belgrade Trophy, we saw 1 e4 c5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 g3 g6 4 Bg2 Bg7 5 d3 d6 6 Be3 e5 7 Nf3 Nge7 8 Qd2 Nd4 and now White found 9 Nd1 allowing 9 .. Bh3! This was Radisa Nikolic v Milan Vukic.
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By the way Radisa is 2217 - so not at the top of the Nikolic list. Nonetheless!
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Re: Closed Sicilian with 6 Be3
That's pretty surprising. I lost a game to Tim Spanton when I was in my teens with this theme, colours reversed in a Botvinnik English. I've since seen the idea countless times, although White can still grovel on with 0-0.
Re: Closed Sicilian with 6 Be3
John Moore wrote:Yet another strong player manages to find a blunder that has been known for donkeys years. Today in the Belgrade Trophy, we saw 1 e4 c5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 g3 g6 4 Bg2 Bg7 5 d3 d6 6 Be3 e5 7 Nf3 Nge7 8 Qd2 Nd4 and now White found 9 Nd1 allowing 9 .. Bh3! This was Radisa Nikolic v Milan Vukic.
I have added the diagram.
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Re: Closed Sicilian with 6 Be3
Glad you added that because I didn't know it and used to play that line.
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I fell into the same trap against Peter Morton at Paignton last year. Not quite the same move order, but the same setup.
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I've now found that game. A far more disastrous version of the same theme. 1.e4 e5. 2.Nf3 Nf6. 3.d3 Nc6. 4.Qe2 d6. 5.g3 Bg4. 6.h3 Nd4. I guess this sort of thing happens to most of us at times, especially when you've been playing chess for over 70 years ! ( I then played 7. Nxd4 Bxe2. 8.Nxe2 with Bishop and Knight for the Queen, but obviously not enough )
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I suspect Black's first move was 1. .. c5 after which it's the rare Nimzowitsch line of the Sicilian rather than a Petroff.Barry Sandercock wrote: 1.e4 e5. 2.Nf3 Nf6. 3.d3 Nc6. 4.Qe2 d6. 5.g3 Bg4. 6.h3 Nd4.
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No. It was a Petroff and I was trying to transpose to a K.I.A ( unfortunately, not the way Fischer played it !)
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Re: Closed Sicilian with 6 Be3
Barcza v Tal, Tallinn 1971, is another instructive version of this trap.
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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Matt Mackenzie wrote:Barcza v Tal, Tallinn 1971, is another instructive version of this trap.
Here is the game.
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Re: Closed Sicilian with 6 Be3
Nice finish. I guess you just don't expect the Bh3 in such a position.