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Crushing the Sicilian in 23 moves (2200 vs 2300)



I just played a pretty nice (in my opinion) blitz game against a strong opponent so I wanted to share. Enjoy, comment. Cheers!
Well done!

But looks extremely cooperative from Black. Of course 6. ... Bb4!, I wouldn’t dare something else.

16.Qd4+- has been played before in a tournament game.
Indeed, I was surprised just how much of this game was seen in practice before.
Actually, I play such lines as Black and sometimes 1.e4 c5 Nf3 e6 3.g3!? followed by a cunning d4! later enables me to use similar ideas with White. So these are pet lines of mine with either color. ;)
This g3 line is very dangerous against Kan and Taimanov. Very easy to underestimate.
@Sarg0n I actually often play 3.g3 myself against 2.e6, but must with the idea to play a KIA style approach, but it is true you can just use it as a different move order to get what we got in the game. Very good point.

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