The Secret 🤐 Way to Win at Chess: The Kopec System (Anti-Sicilian)

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The Kopec System is an effective anti-Sicilian sideline for White devised by IM Danny Kopec for use against those booked-up 📚 Sicilian Defense players. It employs a strange bishop maneuver early in the opening that guarantees White a solid, and unexpected, set-up after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6/Nc6 3.Bd3.

Bd3!? Yes, it’s true, the Kopec System looks very strange after 3. Bd3, however White´s idea is to form a strong center with pawns on e4 and d4 – normally leading to positions similar to the Ruy Lopez. Although White´s 3.Bd3 move looks very weird and breaks a fundamental rule of blocking in his d2-pawn and thus c1-bishop, White will soon unravel with 4.c3 and 5.Bc2 – tucking the bishop safely on c2. This allows White to gain space in the center with a well-prepared d4 push.

White´s bishop maneuver takes a good amount of time, especially so early in the opening – however Black is unable to exploit this because White can keep the position closed – until he’s ready!

This is one of the best openings for White if you’re trying to avoid mainstream Sicilian Defense theory and you should get good shock value too as Black wonders what that bishop is doing on d3!

But, as Danny shows, the Kopec System has its own hidden power.

You get:

• to keep a pawn on d4, claiming space
• a well-protected e4 pawn, claiming more space
• an easy to play system where you can play the first 5-6 moves instantly
• to catch Black out in some chess openings traps if they try playing their usual Sicilian Defense ideas

While the Kopec System is not played often at the elite level, it is still used on occasion. Super GM Fabiano Caruana employed a variation of the Kopec System in a crazy 2012 game against fellow Super GM Veselin Topalov!

In this chapter from his chess course ¨The Kopec System¨, the opening´s creator IM Dr. Danny Kopec explains the fundamental ideas of this interesting sideline.

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