no that is not a good move
The reason why you should always play 3...cxd4 in the Sicilian
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no that is not a good move
Lipnitzky wrote:
no that is not a good move
Which move isn't good? thanks
Hello guys,
Yesterday I played an interesting game in a tournament.
My opponent played with the Black pieces and her rating was 1470 Elo.
The game started with the old sicilian: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3.d4 ... Regular moves, nothing special.
Then, in her third move, my opponent played a surprising move which I've never seen before. Instead of capturing the d4 pawn (like the theory says) she ignored my d4 pawn and played 3...Nc6?
It took me a moment to realize that her move was a mistake. After some thinking, I found a nice trap that helped me win the game pretty easily after only 17 moves.
I decided to share my trap with the chess.com community. The readers of this post can either try and find my trap in the following puzzle, or watch the trap (and the rest of the game) in the window below the puzzle.
Puzzle: What happens when Black does not capture the d4 pawn in the Sicilian?
Your goal: Find a sequence of 3 deadly moves!
And here is the entire game:
I hope you enjoyed reading my post and hopefully you learned something new!
See you soon,
The_Analyzer