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Originally Posted by digeri
You can also try the King's Indian attack. For example, 1. e4 c5 2. nf3 x 3. d3 x 4. g3 etc...
basically a reversed Kings Indian defense.
I used to play the KIA almost exclusively vs. the Sicilian - it gets kinda tough though against a 2. d6 or Nc6 because he reserves the option to play e5 at some point, and the point of the KIA is to eventually take that square for yourself - against the Kan (2. ..e6) it's great cause he wastes an extra tempo if he wants to grab e5 - I think the first game in Fischer's 60 memorable games is a KIA vs Sicilian
Lately, I've been gravitating towards the 3. Bb5 since almost everything I see is a Dragon or Accelerated Dragon - I'm getting pretty bored with my openings and am preparing a review of them from Carsten Hansen's book on openings to kinda get a feel for what else I could play - (used a QGD for the first time I think today but opponent was 1250 and I whooped him with a checkmate pretty fast
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I guess I like the idea of a Bb5 more then c3 but I might try them both at some point but to book up on so many prepared Sicilian lines just doesn't sound like fun to me.