MNb wrote on 06/22/06 at 04:17:34:
Most enterprising though is 6.exd5 Nxd5 (exd5 7.Qe2 and Black has problems finishing his development) 7.o-o (again 7.Ne5 is met with Bd7, but 7.Bxc6+ bxc6 8.o-o might be more precise) Nxf4 (Bd7!?) and this has only occurred in a game I hardly understand. 8.d3 Ng6 9.Ng5 f6 10.Bxc6+ Bxc6 11.Qf3 Ne5
a)12.Qg3 Qd4+ 13.Be3 Qg4 14.Qf2 fxg5 15.d4 cxd4 16.Bxd4 and White won in Korolev-Obuchovsky, URS 1973. Lane's suggestion Qf4 looks like a refutation.
b)So when I played the GPA I intended 12.Qh5+ g6 13.Qe2 fxg5 14.Qxe5 Qd4+ 15.Qe3. This is about equal, but all the weak pawns ensure an interesting game.
This is it - the next few days I will not have time analyzing this stuff. I know this is not a full answer to Ostapbender's post; I must save the rest for now.
After
6.exd5 Nxd5 then
7.0-0 looks like a good try to demonstrate an advantage, but I'm not so sure about grabbing the pawn with
7...Nxf4. I haven't analyzed it, but I don't like the prospect of the black king getting stuck in the center. (I don't understand what you mean by "Lane's suggestion Qf4 looks like a refutation." Probably I'm missing something, but I don't see a place in the Korolev-Obuchovsky where Qf4 makes sense.)
You mention
7...Bd7 (to avoid doubled pawns) but this also seems kind of dodgy after
8.Nxd5 exd5 9.Re1+ Be7 10.Qe2 - the e-file pressure looks uncomfortable.
I think that Black's best move here is probably simply
7...Be7, getting ready to castle.
After
Bxc6 and
...bxc6 Black has to hope that his pawn weaknesses will be compensated by his bishop pair. I think the position should be open enough for the bishops to have pretty good scope.
Regarding the statement "White does better with Open Sicilian lines than just about any version of the Grand Prix Attack," perhaps this is too harsh and certainly it's just a nonconstructive, dumb thing to say - totally beside the point. Such blustery, opinionated commentary doesn't belong here - in a non-gambit thread!
Thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at the rest - particularly
4...Nge7 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Nxd4 7.Qxd4 Nc6 8.Qf2 where we seem to have a major difference of opinion.
I'm interested to hear what you have to say about
4...a6 which looks, perhaps naively, like it might just lead into a Taimanov Sicilian.