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Date: 09 Jan 2005 09:45:48
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Subject: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack
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After 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bc4 e6 6. f5 the book
move is 6..Nge7. I forgot my theory and bashed out 6..d5, a move which
I've been unable to find in any of my general opening references. Can
anyone find anything wrong with it? The game went 7. exd5 exd5 8. Nxd5
Bxf5 (8..b5 is interesting) and Black was fine. At the time, I was
worried about 7. fxe6 dxc4 8. exf7+ Kxf7, but I haven't been able to
make this line work for White and again it looks like Black is fine.
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Date: 10 Jan 2005 18:49:42
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Subject: Re: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack
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Thanks! This was a great response.
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Date: 11 Jan 2005 01:13:26
From: Randy Bauer
Subject: Re: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack
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<[email protected] > wrote in message
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> After 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bc4 e6 6. f5 the book
> move is 6..Nge7. I forgot my theory and bashed out 6..d5, a move which
> I've been unable to find in any of my general opening references. Can
> anyone find anything wrong with it? The game went 7. exd5 exd5 8. Nxd5
> Bxf5 (8..b5 is interesting) and Black was fine. At the time, I was
> worried about 7. fxe6 dxc4 8. exf7+ Kxf7, but I haven't been able to
> make this line work for White and again it looks like Black is fine.
>
It's mentioned by various sources although not considered a main line --
probably because black has excellent play in the lines after 6...Nge7.
ECO gives 6...d5!? 7.exd5 exd5 8.Nxd5 Bxf5 9.d3 Nge7 10.Bg5 0-0 11.0-0 Qd6=.
Hodgson and Day, in Grand Prix Attack: f4 against the Sicilian, simply
quote the ECO line but also note that 6...d5!? is "a logical response which
has not had sufficient practical tests."
Gary Lane's The Grand Prix Attack carries this ECO line out a little
further, with 12.Nxe7+ Nxe7 13.Qd2 Nc6 14.Rae1 Rae8 15.Bh6 Rxe1 16.Rxe1 Nd4
17.Bxg7 Nxf3+ 18.gxf3 Kxg7 19.Qc3+ f6 20.Re8 Rd8 21.Qe1 Rd7 22.Re8 Qf4
23.Kg2 1/2-1/2 Plachetka-Baumbach, Kapfenberg Echt 1970.
He also suggests 9.Qe2+!? Nge7 10.d3 0-0 11.Bg5 Re8 12.Nxe7+ Nxe7 13.0-0 Qd7
14.Kh1 h6 15.Bh4 Nd5 16.Qf2 b5 17.Bb3 Rac8 but assesses it as slightly
better for black (Eletsky-Fuglsang, Copenhaagen 1991).
From what I can see, this is a pretty easy equalizing method for black; on
the other hand, the positions after 6...Nge7 7.fxe6 fxe6 have done pretty
well for black, and 7...dxe6 also gives the second player a pretty easy
life. No wonder this specific line is pretty much out of fashion.
Randy Bauer
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