In 1813, the English master Jacob Henry Sarratt effectively standardised his English translation of the name of this opening as 'the Sicilian Defence', referring to an old Italian manuscript that used the phrase il gioco siciliano ('the Sicilian game'). but it is a very good one to try the strength of an adversary with whose skill you are unacquainted." is absolutely defensive, and very far from being the best.
The great French player and theoretician André Danican Philidor opined of the Sicilian in 1777, "This way of opening the game. 1617), and Gioachino Greco (1623), and later Conte Carlo Francesco Cozio (c. It was later the subject of analyses by leading players of the day Alessandro Salvio (1604), Don Pietro Carrera (c. The Sicilian Defence was analysed by Giulio Polerio in his 1594 manuscript on chess, though he did not use the term 'Sicilian Defence'. In many variations, White castles queenside to exploit attacking chances on the kingside at the cost of moving his king to the flank where Black has a spatial advantage. The pawn trade also opens the c- file for Black, who can place a rook or queen on that file to support the queenside counterplay. Often, Black's c5-pawn is traded for White's d4-pawn in the early stages of the game, granting Black a central pawn majority. Meanwhile, advancing a queenside pawn has given Black a spatial advantage there and provides a basis for future operations on that flank. Consequently, White often obtains a substantial lead in development and dangerous attacking chances. In many variations of the Sicilian, Black makes a number of further pawn moves in the opening (for example. However, 1.c5 does little for Black's development, unlike moves such as 1.e5, 1.g6, or 1.Nc6, which either develop a minor piece or prepare to do so. White, having pushed a kingside pawn, tends to hold the initiative on that side of the board. Unlike 1.e5, however, 1.c5 breaks the symmetry of the position, which strongly influences both players' future actions. The move resembles 1…e5, the next most common response to 1.e4, in that respect. So the thought behind 1.c5 is this: "OK, I'll let you open the position, and develop your pieces aggressively, but at a price – you have to give me one of your center pawns."īy advancing the c- pawn two squares, Black asserts control over the d4-square and begins the fight for the centre of the board. The first point of contact usually comes in the form of a pawn exchange, which leads to the opening of the position. However, to do this, he has to make "contact" with the black position. To profit from the initiative granted by the first move, White has to make use of his opportunity to do something before Black has an equal number of opportunities of his own. To my mind there is quite a straightforward explanation. The drawback is that White often obtains an early initiative, so Black has to take care not to fall victim to a quick attack." Grandmaster Jonathan Rowson considered why the Sicilian is the most successful response to 1.e4, even though 1.c5 develops no pieces and the pawn on c5 controls only d4 and b4. Grandmaster John Nunn attributes the Sicilian Defence's popularity to its "combative nature": "in many lines Black is playing not just for equality, but for the advantage.
ġ7% of all games between grandmasters, and 25% of the games in the Chess Informant database, begin with the Sicilian. New In Chess stated in its 2000 Yearbook that, of the games in its database, White scored 56.1% in 296,200 games beginning 1.d4, but 54.1% in 349,855 games beginning 1.e4, mainly because the Sicilian held White to a 52.3% score in 145,996 games.
Opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for White because of the high success rate of the Sicilian defence against 1.e4. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves:
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