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How to Play Against Sicilian Defense?

I don't know... when I look back at my recent games against stronger opponents, games where I played open Sicilian variations as white or Spanish as black are among those I feel best about. In other words, exactly the openings everyone tells me to dread and to avoid at any cost. Sure, I lost most of those games, but not because of lack of opening theory knowledge.
THE BEST MODERn MOUVV againsT sicilialien openING..?!!

U prefer Taiimanov = 2

Yu prefer Shevening=5

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@SveshnikovisKing said in #3:
> ...Smith Morra?

Smith Morra is nice up to a point, but it doesn't quite hold in the long run. Which makes it tricky to invest in.
I love playing the main lines with black, so it would be silly to spend time on studying sidelines for white. Of course I know many of them from the black side, by necessity.