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JacksonWShowalter · 01-30-2008, 08:49 PM

It seems the B is exposed to attack with a gain of time for Black while expanding in the center or Q-side. It suggests to black …e6 and …d5. Also sometimes in the Sicilian it's better to delay the development of the f1 Bishop because Black has a lot of choices of pawn structure. Some of which may be better met with Bd3, Be2 or Bf1-g2, than with Bc4. The fact that it’s not very popular at the GM level suggests to me they know something the rest of us don’t.

Here is a link to a GM game showing how to meet it even though White played it at move 3 instead of 2.
Eduardo Arruda vs Vladimir Kramnik (1991)

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JacksonWShowalter Forum Queen Posts: 586 Thanked 57 Times in 56 Posts Chess Profile	It seems the B is exposed to attack with a gain of time for Black while expanding in the center or Q-side. It suggests to black …e6 and …d5. Also sometimes in the Sicilian it's better to delay the development of the f1 Bishop because Black has a lot of choices of pawn structure. Some of which may be better met with Bd3, Be2 or Bf1-g2, than with Bc4. The fact that it’s not very popular at the GM level suggests to me they know something the rest of us don’t. Here is a link to a GM game showing how to meet it even though White played it at move 3 instead of 2. Eduardo Arruda vs Vladimir Kramnik (1991) __________________ Always deploy so that the right oblique can be readily established in case the objective plane remains open or becomes permanently located on the centre or on the King's wing, or that the crochet aligned may readily be established if the objective plane becomes permanently located otherwise than at the extremity of the strategic front.- Franklin K. Young