This post shows some of the traps in the Sicilian opening and may be useful by itself, but the main purpose of this post is to give a demonstration of the possibilities of publishing chess games on a blogspot site.

Update April 2010
The method stopped working and the post has been replaced by some images taken from a screendump from the original post.



1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 ( 2...Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.e5 Nd5 7.Bd2 Nxc3 8.bxc3 Bf8 9.Bd3 d6 10.Qe2 Nd7?? 11.Nxe6 Qb6 12.Nc7+ 1-0 )( 2...e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Be3 Nf6 6.Nd2 d5 7.e5 Nfd7 8.f4 Nc6 9.c3 g5? 10.Nxe6 fxe6 11.Qh5+ Ke7 12.f5 Nf6? {makes it even worse} 13.Bc5+ 1-0) 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 (4.c3 dxc3 5.Nxc3 e6 6.Bc4 Qc7 7.O-O Nf6 8.Qe2 Ng4 {Black sets a trap. This is not a good move, but if White continues with} 9.Bb3?? {the game is over and out} 9...Nd4 0-1 ) 4...e6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.g3 a6 7.Bg2 b5?! 8.O-O Bb7 9.Re1 d6 10.a4 b4? 11.Nd5 exd5 12.Nxc6 dxe4?! 13.Bxe4 Ne7 14.Qf3 f5 15.Bd5 1-0



1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 ( 4.c3 dxc3 5.Nxc3 Nf6 6.Bc4 Nc6 7.e5 Nxe5? 8.Nxe5 dxe5? ( 8...e6 {is not without problems, but at least better} ) 9.Bxf7+ 1-0 ) 4...Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 ( 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.O-O Be7 9.Qf3 Bd7? 10.e5 dxe5 11.Nxe6 e4 ( 11...Bxe6 12.Qxa8 {is probably best} ) 12.Nxg7+ Kf8 13.Nxe4 Bc6 14.Bh6 Bxe4 15.Nh5+ 1-0 ) ( 6.g3 b5 7.Bg2 Bb7 8.O-O Nbd7 9.Re1 e6 10.e5 Bxg2 11.exf6 Bb7 12.fxg7 Bxg7 13.Nf5 Bf8? 14.Rxe6+ 1-0 ) 6...e6 7.f4 Nbd7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O b5 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Rhe1 h6 12.Qh3 O-O-O 13.Bxf6 Nxf6 14.Nd5 Qa5? {may be at nice move at first sight, but look what happens to the queen} 15.Nb3! Qxe1 ( 15...Qa4 {can not be played because of} 16.Nb6+ ) ( {and} 15...Qxa2 {meets} 16.Nc3 ) 16.Rxe1 1-0



1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.h4 Bg7 7.Be2 O-O 8.h5 Nbd7 9.hxg6 hxg6 10.Bh6 Bxh6 11.Rxh6 Kg7?! 12.Qd2 Rh8?? {mate in 6} 13.Nf5+ Kg8 14.Rxh8+ Kxh8 15.Qh6+ Kg8 16.Qg7%23 1-0