Author: John Merlino
Date: 20:53:53 11/10/02
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On November 10, 2002 at 11:54:49, James Grist wrote: >Hi, I just want to know if anyone is an expert on this sicilian variation and >can confirm that it is a good playable line for white. > >1. e4 c5 >2. d4 cxd4 >3. Qxd4 Nc6 >4. Qa4 > >Now White developes sensibly and has seems to have plenty of flexibilty. >The moves are quite flexible. If black refuses the pawn exchange, white can go >choose a line which resembles a Benoni with 3.d5 > >Thx, >James There are only 15 games in the CM9000 database that even play 3.Qxd4, and none that play 4.Qa4. The statistics are quite poor. In the fifteen games, there only one two wins for White, and only one draw, leaving 12 wins for Black. This is the only notable win for White in the database: [Event "?"] [Site "Goteborg SWE"] [Date "1920.08.??"] [Round "11"] [White "Mieses, Jacques"] [Black "Bogoljubow, Efim D"] [TimeControl "-"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B21"] [WhiteCountry "GER"] [BlackCountry "GER"] 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be2 d6 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.Nd5 Nxd5 9.exd5 Nd4 10.Bd1 Qc7 11.c3 Nf5 12.Qd3 O-O 13.g4 Nh6 14.Qh3 Qc4 15.Bxh6 1-0 jm
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