Sicilian Chess Openings

22/12/2007 by Nikita

Smyslov in 2002

Please Click HERE to play through a game of Smyslov V. – Denker A. played in
Moscow, 1946. They played a Sicilian Opening. Click HERE for more Sicilian openings! You do get different variations on the Sicilian.

If you click HERE you can read on Wikipedia about the Sicilian Defence! I like the Dragon -variation = see the 2nd small image in this post = because of the white Knights’ formation…! It looks beautiful….hehehe…

Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov was born March 24, 1921, in Moscow and is a Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov was twice Soviet Champion (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
Read HERE more about Smyslov and if you scroll down on this link, you will find more chess games of him.

DRAGON-variation on the next image.

Posted in Chess, chess games, Sicilian, Smyslov | Tagged Chess, chess games, chess masters, Russian Chess Grandmasters, Sicilian, Sicilian openings, Smyslov | 5 Comments

5 Responses

on 22/12/2007 at 20:19 kindredspiritks

How do you get these diagrams for your blog?
on 22/12/2007 at 20:29 Nikita

Hi Kindredspiritks

I copied it with a pic program called Jing… it’s free from the Internet…follow this link:
Jing here …
on 23/12/2007 at 16:12 Jasper

Nogals ‘n formidabele rekord wat die oubaas daar het. Ek het self al ‘n paar keer teen iemand gespeel wat met die formasie begin het, maar nie geweet dit het ‘n naam nie…..

😉
on 24/12/2007 at 00:15 Nikita

Hi Jasper…nou se vir my…wat is jou probleem…wanneer speel ons skaak…! Jy het jouself nou weggegee hier..jy kan speel!! 🙂
on 17/02/2008 at 14:25 Dragon variation « Chessalee

[…] the image you can see the Dragon-Variation…of the Sicilian opening…. On this link HERE you can read more about the Sicilian/Dragon, which is one of my […]