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A23

English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation, Keres Variation

Key moves: 1.c4 e5

The Reversed Sicilian — Black plays ...e5 against the English, giving White a Sicilian-type position with an extra tempo. The resulting positions are rich and flexible.

History & Notable Players

A popular response that creates reversed Sicilian structures.

Top Players in this Opening

Keres, Paul11 gamesNakamura,Hi7 gamesCaruana,F4 gamesPortisch, Lajos3 gamesPolugaevsky, Lev3 gamesSmyslov, Vassily2 gamesNavara,D2 gamesBronstein, David I2 gamesNajdorf, Miguel2 gamesTal, Mihail2 games

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