Look at this to see one way to defend against the sicilian:
The sicilian is a good reason for not playing 1.e4. Black get's tons of activity and it's very hard to keep the advantage. You have to study a lot of sharp lines in order to play it properly and that's only justified when you are a world top who plays for money.
Good idea Artemi
ok but if black exchanges his c pawn for the d pawn does he not still have a pawn center
Maybe the correct name is anti-sicilian opening!
yes but you must defend when your adversary uses the dragon sicilan (the diagram is not the dragon, I just moved pieces around)
Isn't Sicilian already a defence, and supposed to be attacked ?
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