Which defence is better?

I played one time

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I think Caro Kann and Petrov are defenses while french and sicilian lead to attacking pawn storms and are not necessarily solid in any way. Sicilian can lead to very interesting games but also a lot of theory.

@Eubo0 thanks for that comment and I assure you that under my command all openings are flawed. :) But I think @absk-kr-singh very well explained the problems one can experience with the Sicilian. It's so vast, and it can get SO damn complicated. But that said, I have played it this week so yes I use it. But lately I've been trying the Philidor much more often..

Play whatever opening you feel most comfortable with. If there existed something as a "better defense", then everybody would play it. You shouldn't really care if someone says that a certain defense is too difficult to play at your level, because at your level you are very likely to face an opponent who doesn't know very well what to do against it either. You might actually get an edge by knowing the opening better, because you studied it. Why torture yourself with learning an opening with which you get positions you really don't like, just because a stronger player told you the torturous opening that gets you positions you don't like playing is easier to learn?

#11 Fischer was a Sicilian player himself and was the one who introduced h5 as Black (if I am not mistaken) to thwart some plans White might have on the King-side. I guess he crushed Sicilian players as White, because he was the stronger player and an expert in the opening himself, so he would certainly know how to create difficulties against Black.

Over millions of chess games, Sicilian defense has produced better results at 52 % compared to 55 % for French. Of course both are playable and each have many strong lines

Who know how play Sicilian he/she can play better and how know french he/she can play better french.

Some times magnus carlsen plays sicilian

old benoni defence