Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Don’t Waste Time

One of the main goals in openings is piece development and beginners know about it early on.

There are sharp openings where delaying development soon drives to inferior positions and the Sicilian Defence is one of them. Besides that, the Sicilian has variations plenty of tactics where unaware players can fall if playing carelessly.

Let check by yourselves in the following game from the Berlin championship, 1950.

If you want to play the Sicilian Defence, take some time to study it in deep because the theory of Sicilian is abundant and plenty of traps, which is worth knowing.

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