fling wrote on 02/20/11 at 09:31:24:
hicetnunc wrote on 02/19/11 at 18:55:36:
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.Qxd4!? may be annoying (5...Nc6 6.Qe4), while 5.c3 transposes to Alapin Sicilian main lines
5 ...Nc6 6. Qxd5 seems annoying to me. But 5 ...e6 might be worth trying? After e.g. 6. c4 Nc6 7. Qe4 f5 it seems like a variation from the c3 Sicilian that is good for Black, except that White has saved a tempo on playing c4 in one go. Don't know if it is ok for Black, though.
Is that variation of the c3 Sicilian considered good for black? That's one of the variations that I actually know, because I used to play the Smith-Morra Gambit, and Andrew Martin's Foxy Openings DVD on the gambit declined recommends this line for white, via1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Qxd4 e6 6. Nf3 etc. I feel pretty comfortable playing that as white.
It seems to me that c4 would get in the way of white's king's bishop, which heads to b5 or c4 in some of those lines, though it fianchettos in other lines, so then c4 wouldn't matter to it.
Actually, that's part of what brought on this question in the first place. I'm abandoning the Smith-Morra Gambit in favor of the Open Sicilian as white. But there's a lot of Open variations to learn, so I thought I could maybe use the 2. d4 move order to continue playing the SMG against some move orders temporarily, while playing the Open against other move orders.
Actually, I just looked at Langrock's "Modern Morra Gambit", and he actually recommends using 2. Nf3 when doing something like this. Apparently, against 2. ... d6, the Open is pretty much mandatory, but the Morra is still playable against 2. ... e6 and 2. ... Nc6.
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