One solution is to pick an anti-Sicilian - not so much in the expectation of obtaining a theoretical advantage from the opening, but rather in the hope of outplaying blacks through better understanding.
Another approach is to copy the repertoire of a chess great who had particular success against the Sicilian.
Aping a repertoire is not a new idea, although it is normally put forward with the aim of basing one's whole play with white and black in this way.
But I think it can be at least as effective if you 'steal' a repertoire for just one opening.
There are 179 games in ChessBase's 2020 Mega database in which Bobby Fischer played 1.e4 and faced the reply 1...c5. Fischer scored a magnificent 74%.
So in this series I want to put forward a repertoire against the Sicilian Defence based on Fischer's play, while noting where theory has significantly changed.
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| Ulrich Kohls' photo of Fischer playing Tal at the 1960 Olympiad in Leipzig (German Federal Archives) |
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