Surprising Your Opponents with the Kupreichik Sicilian

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can you make a study

I prefer the hyper accelerated dragon variant to get my dark bishop out, since d6 is blocking it

It seems like a bad version of the Classical Sicilian, Black plays Bd7 to prepare e5 (stopping Bb5+–Nf5), but then the bishop is misplaced, so it seems logical for White to play f3 getting a much better version of the English Attack. Already in the Classical Sicilian Black has to be very careful to not get a straight up lost position, and some lines work on only moves, for example: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. f3 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Be3 O-O 9. Qd2 Be6 10. O-O-O a5 11. Bb5 Nb4 12. a3 Qc7 13. Kb1 d5

I'm not convinced that Bd7 is that useful of a move in the e5 structures...

Also the games you chose are not convincing to say at least. In the 6.Be2 game saying "Black transitions into a Dragon setup under favorable circumstances after forcing White to play Be2" is a massive stretch. While f3 is the critical approach against the Dragon, lines with Be2 also have some venom and Black has already committed the bishop to d7, which is bad. In the game Black was literally playing down a tempo. Compare the game to this line 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. f3 g6 7. Be3 Bg7 8. Bc4 O-O 9. Qd2 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5

If you pay attention to the game, the position clearly reflects that, White just blundered a tactic in a winning position

In the 6.f3 game Black would never achieve d5 if White wasn't scared to follow through with their setup. The typical plan of 10.Qd2–O-O-O grants White big advantage and it's clear why. What was played in the game is 10.Bb5-Qe2, which is also interesting, the queen on e2 stands even better. In general Black should be able to meet Qe2 with d5, but in this weird setup Black is so far from achieving this. All White has to do is castle queenside. Engine finds even more accurate 10.Bc4–Qe2 exploiting the misplaced bishop on c6.

Maybe there is more to this variation than meets the eye (which I doubt), but the games you chose to cover only show how bad the variation is. It literally looks like a bad surprise weapon, because there is no benefit to the Bd7 move. Much better surprise Sicilian is for example 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 h5 where it's not obvious how to punish such a move and the most natural 6.Bg5 is a serious inaccuracy

Very nice blog structure. Please continue to write. As for the chess itself, @ChickyCheck is much more versed in it than I could ever be.

@CkickyCheck said ^

Also the games you chose are not convincing to say at least.

In summary, OP found a game Carlsen won, and 3 games where White played f3 at some point and got rolled.

Its an excellent blog, hoping to see this in a study!