Sicilian Godiva Variation

Hello Everyone,

Recently I have been looking into the Godiva variation which arises from these moves:

Does anyone have any idea of as to how to play this variation, or whether this is worth even looking into? What is the purpose of Qb6 in the longterm?

Thanks

Also if anyone could post a few games which contain this variation that are instructive on how to play this opening that would be greatly appreciated.

sounds tasty but if you are actually interested in looking up games I believe that is actually the grivas sicilian

as said earlier, that's the grivas sicilian. most of its lines transposes into the scheveningen line. The purpose of 4...Qb6 is to remove the white knight on d4 square then proceed with development.

I'd love to learn more about it cause I play the scheveningen but thats from playing the paulson variation not the old sicilian with the early Nc6 (I didn't like the Rosslomo variation if it for black 1.e4/c5 2.Nf3/Nc6 3.Bb5). anyone know how this can come from the paulson variation.

Ah, thanks for clarifying the name...the only reason why I posted it as the Godiva variation was because that is what the Chess.com Opening Explorer said. What do you guys think of this variation? I mean it brings out the queen early but white doesn't seem to have a good way of defending the knight unless he wants to give up some material. That is why Nb3 is the main line after Qb6.

well, for starters, you could all the Sicilian games of GM Grivas. He claims he has been using it for more than 20 years 

[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2790"]
[BlackElo "2795"]
[EventDate "2001.06.26"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.09.13"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nb3 Nf6 6. Nc3 e6 7. Qe2 Bb4 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. a3 Be7 10. O-O-O d6 11. g4 a6 12. g5 Nd7 13. h4 Qc7 14. f4 b5 15.
Kb1 b4 16. axb4 Nxb4 17. f5 Rb8 18. Bf4 exf5 19. exf5 Ne5 20. Bh3 Re8 21. g6
hxg6 22. Bxe5 dxe5 23. fxg6 fxg6 24. h5 Bf5 25. hxg6 Bxh3 26. Rxh3 Bg5 27. Ne4
Bf4 28. Nbc5 
 1-0

[Event "EUCup 18th"]
[Site "Chalkidiki"]
[Date "2002.09.28"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Motylev, Alexander"]
[Black "Polgar, Judit"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2634"]
[BlackElo "2681"]
[EventDate "2002.09.22"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2003.02.06"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nb3 Nf6 6. Nc3 e6 7. Qe2 Bb4 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. a3 Be7 10. O-O-O d5 11. exd5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. Bc3 Be6 14. Qf3
Rac8 15. Qg3 g6 16. h4 Rfd8 17. h5 d4 18. hxg6 hxg6 19. Nxd4 Nxd4 20. Rxd4 Rxc3
21. bxc3 Rxd4 22. cxd4 Qxd4 23. c3 Qc5 24. Kd2 Bg5+ 25. Kc2 Kg7 26. Bd3 Bf6 27.
Rb1 Qxc3+ 28. Kd1 Bg5 29. Ke2 Bg4+ 30. Kf1 Bf4 
0-1

A lady who used to ride naked a horse. She also was a GM.

lol

funny!