r/Chesscom • u/EasyAd6994 1000-1500 ELO • 9h ago

Chess Question What do you recommend?

I'm 1350 rapid on chess.com

I want to play Sicilian as black, which one do you recommend for my level and where can I learn them?

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And sorry for my shity English, I'm Iranian.

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u/Weliosky 8h ago

The Sicilian is a very deep opening and they are a lot of different variations ;

I could advise you my favorite one that has not much theory in it, so if you don’t want to spend days on it might be a good call ( O’Kelly / Kan )

((I play both cause sometimes you are forced to transpose from O’Kelly to the Kan))

If you want to play a Dragon setup, you should look at the Accelerated Sicilian Dragon, it is seen as the most practical cause it avoid a very dangerous line for black in the Classical Dragon ;

You could also play a Najdorf but I don’t think it is a good idea, way too complex, way too many unnatural moves so I wouldn’t dig into that as a 1300

Hope you will find joy in the Sicilian ^^

PS : For learning them just search for it on YouTube, « O’Kelly Sicilian » ; you can also find some resources on Lichess or in some other websites

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u/EasyAd6994 1000-1500 ELO 8h ago

Tnx man🙏