5 Best Chess Opening Traps in the Sicilian Defense

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🔹 Part-2 of “5 Best Chess Opening Traps in the Sicilian Defense” –

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The Sicilian Defense is the most frequently used defense from club players to Grandmasters. The main reason for the popularity of this chess opening is its combative nature – Black fights not for equality, but for advantage. The Sicilian Defense begins with the moves: 1.e4 c5.

In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov will share with you 5 best chess opening traps in the Sicilian Defense with different variations including the Najdorf, Dragon, Accelerated Dragon, O’Kelly and Paulsen variation.

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0:00 Introduction
0:41 Najdorf variation
6:10 Accelarated Dragon
8:59 Dragon, Levenfish variation
11:48 O’Kelly variation
14:19 Paulsen variation

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30 Comments

  1. Sempuurrnaaa i like it! Bacuse is the beat tenkyu ticher

  2. Chess game online

  3. 3:10 is there a continuation if black play Qa5? ( because the knight is pinned ).

  4. On the 4th trap, would you take the centre pawn with Q while you have the pin, then you can attack the corner?

  5. At 10.57 , pawn f5 can deflect the queen with capturing the bishop in next move

  6. To show beginners dubious opening traps has very little do with chess teaching.

  7. Bold of you to assume I can convert a one-pawn advantage

  8. 1:14 If black plays e5 what should i do? What's the best continuation.

  9. You misspelled 'Accelarated' in the dragon section for the segment title

  10. in first case he move knight instead of rock pawn than wht will we do now …

  11. Hi, I've a question, What to do if black's queen goes to a5 in the first trap? does the trap still work?

  12. A lot of stuff happened in 4 years. It would be amazing if you could update this video.

  13. Good shii my guy 💯!! Seems like everyone around 1400 is playing Sicilian Defense 😂

  14. In one of the certain positions in this video the queen goes to B6 why wouldn't the queen just go to a5 and pin the night?

  15. In another position in the accelerated dragon or whatever when the pawn recaptured back on C6 it would have been the other Pond that Queen's pond

  16. There was a certain position in the dragon lever fish variation where Bishop could go to G4 and attack the Queen the gain a tempo for black

  17. When the night moves to E6 black can capture with the pond on ff7 you'll still lose lots of material but it won't be checkmate

  18. I liked on Paulsen Variation

  19. Lot of souvenirs for me with this video 🙂I'm from Belgium and when I began to play chess o'Kelly was one of our few GM. Problem in this system is that white can go for the Maroczy setup and it's though to play as black when you are not correctly prepared, maybe a good Idea for a next video ?
    I played the Kan system when I was beginner but I lost many games and I changed for another one, but definitely one I would be ready to play again if I had time to review its theory.
    Also there is another famous trap with Bc4xe6 when Fischer had reviewed a position that was commonly played in USSR at that time and he used it in tournament shorty after

  20. I click on all his recommended videos 😊

  21. In the second trap black would play f6

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