Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin Variation

B22

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 Nf6

How it went

320 ours · 1,536 masters

White wins 36% Draws 23% Black wins 41%

Continuations

This line has no named subvariations in the catalogue. It is a branch end.

Master games

Predojevic, Borki — Carlsen, Magnus 0-1 · 2013
Smerdon, David C — Carlsen, Magnus 1/2-1/2 · 2016
Aronian, Levon — Caruana, Fabiano 0-1 · 2020
Smerdon, David C — Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 0-1 · 2016
Andreikin, Dmitry — Ding, Liren 1/2-1/2 · 2019

Games in Spain

Aronian, Levon (2806) — Iturrizaga, Eduardo (2702) 0-1
Aronian,L (2742) — Iturrizaga Bonelli,Eduardo (2617) 0-1
Aronian,L (2736) — Chigaev,M (2632) 1-0
Anton Guijarro,D (2655) — Gukesh,D (2732) 1/2-1/2
Jerez Perez,A (2350) — Narayanan,SL (2677) 0-1
Kamsky,G (2666) — Chigaev,M (2632) 0-1
Anton Guijarro,D (2664) — Habiaga,Raul Adrian (1987) 1-0
Perske,Thore (2450) — Pichot,A (2647) 0-1

This line is also written

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c3 d5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.d4 Nf6
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 e6 3 c3 d5 4 exd5 Qxd5 5 d4 Nf6
e4 c5 Nf3 e6 c3 d5 exd5 Qxd5 d4 Nf6
e4, c5, Nf3, e6, c3, d5, exd5, Qxd5, d4, Nf6