Master 👉 The Typical Tactics in The Sicilian Defense 🤔 - GM Susan Polgar

welcome to the pole gorgeous University in this lesson I'd like to show you some examples of tactics in the Sicilian defense in our previous lesson we saw what can happen in the French defense and now you'll see perhaps the most popular of all openings the Sicilian the Sicilian happens when white plays d4 and black responds by playing c5 normally all games after these starting moves are considered Sicilian defense the reason why I didn't say always because sometimes it may transpose to another opening but normally it remains Sicilian and white most often continues by developing the knight to f3 here right once to play d4 as soon as possible to occupy the center black has many different ways to react to this opening black can try to develop his bishop by playing right now or in a couple of moves g6 which is typically considered a dragon variation and there are various forms of that or black would play d6 or ecigs to open up the diagonals of the bishops or move one of the Knights out to c6 we shall see are various games to see examples for the different choices right now in our first example black played d6 and here right most often plays the so-called open Sicilian by advancing the D to point to d4 after which normally an exchange of pawns happens by black capturing the right bone on d4 and then the right 93 captures and I'm not going to get to too much detail on what happens after that but that's something that's being played extremely often getting back to this position in the game very examining white played the pwned c2 to c3 you may wonder why would why do this the reason is because white still is trying to play d4 but then when the black pawn captures the white pawn on d4 the idea is to then recapture with a pawn and not the knight or the Queen by this idea is well playable it's not the most popular one in this position blacks best move is to move the knight out to f6 which in fact develops but does not directly actually attack the pawn on e4 unlike what it seems to demonstrate that let me show you that even if the white bishop does not go to d3 to protect that phone but for example moves simply to e2 that would be an extremely tricky move because now Knight takes pawn would be a blunder because it would position the knight on to an unprotected square allowing a fork immediately by Queen 1/4 track and then on the following move after black blocks the check the night is gone so that certainly would be an unpleasant trap of course with that being said after the knight move right now to f6 and then for example Bishop e2 by no means is black forced to capture that phone and or stay shouldn't they can simply play ecigs or g6 and then develop the dark squared Bishop from f8 in this particular game black responded by playing knight c6 developing the other night this is somewhat inferior we shall see why white play d4 as planned the pawn is sufficiently protected by another pawn and the knight and in fact that is even an extra piece the Queen protecting it now White has two plans on one hand one option would be if white could make another move to advance the pawn to d5 and then the Black Knight wouldn't have a very comfortable Square to go to for example right if black plays Knight f6 and then d5 if now the Black Knight we try to remain in the middle of the board then white could exchange the Knights forcing the black D pawn onto the e-file and as we can see the black has two pawns doubled up on the e-file which would be certainly inferior than having them on independent separate files going back to this position after Knight f6 if now white plays d5 ix cannot well go to a five because the night there would be trapped immediately by attacking the knight with b4 and the c-4 square of course is guarded by what divided bishop okay let's go back again and see the position of the d4 black should have traded pawns on d4 and then continued developing but instead black moved his bishop on out 2g4 this move pins the white knight on f3 and in fact kind of threatens to take capture it for example if white would respond by attacking the bishop with h3 then the black Bishop could capture on f3 and now I would have to choose from some unpleasant choices either by recapturing with a pawn which would double our pawns on the F file or if the Queen would capture now all of a sudden there is only one defender left on white d4 pawn and that's not sufficient because after pawn takes pawn black wins a pawn if bone now takes on d4 the black knight from c6 would win the pawn but white can do better here and right played d5 which is an excellent move attacking black's knight here black should have realized the trouble he may face and be more careful than he was as we already learned from a previous variation if right now the black knight would move to a5 the same problem would come that white could attack that night with b4 and indeed trap it now the Black Knight can only move to another square that would be not safe where it would be captured the best choice black has is to retreat the night to b8 which of course is never something to look forward to in the game black played the most natural move but in this case it was a serious mistake black move the Knight to e5 in the hopes that the white knight is pinned and therefore cannot capture the Black Knight and in other cases the black night would be ready to trade on f3 the problem is that this is an exceptional situation when even though it seems that the white knight is pinned in reality white can still move that night and still capture black's knight on e5 in this situation black cannot recapture on e5 the night without losing his bishop on g4 but how about if the black bishop will capture the right queen instead how can this be a good deal for white well normally it's not and it cannot be however in this case because the black king hasn't got to its safety zone yet and it's in the middle white is able to attack that King immediately by playing Bishop to b5 Chuck as we can see the black king is surrounded by his own pieces and is limited by the edge of the board as we know there is no ninth-ranked black has no other choice but to block the check with the Queen and that means that the white bishop on the next move can capture that with yet another chuck and at this point white is a piece up and after King moves to d8 course white could simply capture the bishop on d1 maintaining an extra piece even after black captures the knight on e5 but it's even better to first move Knight to f7 capture the pawn with a Chuck and then the King captures the bishop then King captures Bishop at this stage white is up already an extra night and pawn and in addition the black rook in the corner is trapped as well I'm showing these examples so you get ideas for the opening early stage of the game because sometimes you may have extra opportunities to gain an advantage early on or of course just as importantly make sure you don't fall into one of the opening traps against people who listen to my lectures or read some other opening trap books most of the time in the openings there aren't that much tactics but yet there are some cases that it's helpful to be familiar with let's move on to our second example in this lesson again we're seeing a game that starts out as a Sicilian efore c5 Knight f3 so far this game is identical to our previous one and black responded differently by developing his Knight to f6 immediately attacking the pawn on e4 in this position White's most common movies to advance that pawn forward to e5 and to attack the black knight on f6 that is perhaps the very best choice but in this game white played the second bust and moved his Knight to c3 which still protects the pawn on e4 and continues developing at the same time Black's answer was d5 immediately starting challenging right in the center the pawn on d5 is safe being protected twice by the black queen and Knight Vitus ponded by advancing the pawn to e5 this move of course attack the black's knight now black has to be careful where to go if the Black Knight would go to d7 which is a natural looking move the pawn on d5 maybe captured if the night would move to g4 right would chase the night further back and to not a great square 286 of course the night could go back to where it came from the g8 but that's never fun of course if your choice is to lose a night or some material you choose the ugly compared to the immediately losing one in the game itself black moved his Knight to e4 which is a good thing if it's not bad but in this case it's certainly a bit dangerous move and now white moved the Knight to e2 this looks like a strange move moving backwards and locking up the development of the bishop on f1 however it's a tricky move at the same time and black was careless not thinking about what white is planning it's very important that you always think what does my opponent want to do and after blacks next move which was Bishop to g4 developing you'll see what is what black forgot about while the knight on e4 looks nice and centralized the problem is that because of whites pawn on e5 the knight cannot easily retreat and that means that when the white pawn goes to d3 attacking the knight the knight is trapped because anywhere it would move it would be captured by white let's go on to the next example that will start out the same way that this game just did efore c5 Knight f3 Knight f6 and Knight c3 is part of plated also this game has been played by a very youngest power of only about 14 years old in a game played by telex his opponent responded by playing east six a typical developing move another game transposed to the so called open Sicilian by right plane d4 and black trading and the white knight coming to d4 here black has many playable choices probably the most common one playing the pawn to e to d6 preventing White's pawn advance to e5 another move that tri aims to do exactly just that is to develop the knight to c6 also controlling the e5 square yet in this game black chose neither of those two common options but moved his Bishop to b4 immediately creating a pin over the white knight on c3 and because of that attacking the white pawn on e4 right here typically advances the pawn which is the best option attacking black's knight immediately and black played Knight to d5 again using the pin on white's knight on c3 white played Bishop to d2 protecting the night that was under dual attack black trade it might be the idea to force white onto a situation with double pawns on the C file and now black has to face some difficulties if right now the black bishop retreats to e7 then white could start an immediate attack by playing queen g4 going after black's pawn on g7 and the trick here is that black will have to make some unpleasant move such as advancing the on the g6 which would weaken the dark squares on the kingside or retreating the Bishop to f8 which again doesn't look very attractive because if black would Castle right away the via the bishop would go to h6 and now threaten checkmate on g7 and the best way to avoid the checkmate is to advance the pawn but then by it would win an exchange after capturing the rock that is why in this position black rather retreated the bishop immediately back to f8 of course that doesn't look very nice either by continued developing as he should do in the early stages of the game black played d6 trying to get rid of White's pawn on e5 which as we've seen can be really unpleasant taking away important squares from black and the response was Queen e2 and this was the critical moment of the game where black went wrong we can see that already at this moment white is very nicely developed with all his pieces when black has all the pieces back on the eighth-ranked this doesn't look good nevertheless black can get in serious trouble by making a careless move which black played Knight d7 looks like a normal developing move but in this case because black is already so much behind development this already loses material and here is the elegant combination that garry kasparov pulled off 96 capturing the pone but sacrificing a knight first of all what happens if black captures that night well the check arrives between h5 if now the black king moves out to e7 right good respond with the Bishop check on g5 and at least win back the sacrifice material with an advantageous position even worse would be trying to hang on to the material advantage by playing g6 because then Wright would capture that and sacrifice the bishop followed by King g7 and Bishop g5 where black would end up losing even a whole lot more material after right give Knight up with 96 black in the game chose not to capture it in hoping that then black would only stay upon behind but this was a verse chase because now white was able to pull off a new trick namely 97 Chuck as you can tell this Knight is attacking the black king and the black rook at the same time but the question is can black just capture this Knight simply well they can but then the loss will be even bigger because all of a sudden after pawn takes pawn white opens up the e-file giving a discovered check and black you lose the Queen let's see the next game right played efore c5 Knight f3 just like all the other games we've seen so far in this lesson ecigs d4 open Sicilian and here black played a six which is called the pause and variation in here right would play normally either developing the Knight to c3 or the bishop to d3 in either way the game leads to a very complex game but what happens if y it instead develops the other Bishop to f4 trying to focus in on some weakened square on d6 Val strategically it's a good idea and it develops a piece tactically it has a shortcoming and in reality black male can win material try to think and see if you can figure out what that tricky move is that means a piece and that move is d5 amazingly now black Forks divide bishop and night but you may wonder can divide bishop just capture that yes they can but perhaps this reminds you of a trick I mentioned earlier at one of the previous games now the black Queen appears on a 5 checking the white king and at the same time attacking divide Bishop on e5 after white blocks the track the bishop field the lost and let's see our last example for this lesson again we'll see the same opening moves the Sicilian Knight f3 e 6 and in this game right again chose to play Knight c3 first and not immediately d4 black play a 6 and d4 arrived bones exchanged as usual divide nice captures back in a situation like this not the Queen we do not want to capture back with the Queen because that would allow an immediate attack on the queen with knight c6 so therefore Knight takes d4 and knight c6 this is again a possession that has been reached many many times in the pause and variation in this case the bishop move to a four works well because if black would respond by playing a five right now then right good trade Knight attacking the black queen for a moment and then on the following move safely capture the pawn on e5 after Bishop to f4 black made a mistake though black played Knight ge7 looks like a normal developing move but in this case the problem is that if you can imagine a knight coming on to d6 that would be fancy smothered mate and because of that idea white can go ninety to b5 even though that Square seems to be guarded by black's pawn and black and captured at night a second night arrives on that very square black is in trouble in the actual game black played d5 then right first kind of traps the queen and then the king by attacking the Queen now the bishop is protected by the night Queen has only one safe Square to go to on d7 and then 96 traps the King Chuck the only legal move black has is to give up the Queen for the night but that results invites major gain in material let's go back just a couple of moves after Bishop f4 and 97 what did white play do you still remember the move it was a fancy move sacrificing the knight Knight b5 takes 6 we saw what happened in the actual game where black played d5 let's see for a moment how the game would end if black would move the night making escape for a black King we'll play 9c seven check if Queen takes Knight of course the bishop captures and after King East seven in addition to capturing the rook white can do much better namely checkmate in two by Clint Chuck followed by Knight checkmate very beautiful and finally last but not least if you won't go back just a couple moves in this physical position instead of d5 or not g6 if black now plays Knight d5 preventing night c7 remember black is a knight up so he can afford giving a knight back then simply take it renewing the threat of Knight c7 chap and after E 5 the winning move is pawn to d6 again threatening to trap the black king with nice e7 invites advantages huge well hope you gain some new ideas for the opening for the Sicilian defense keep coming 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Length: 29min 2sec (1742 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 26 2016