Sitsiliya himoyasi (Alapin talqini)

Sitsiliya himoyasining Alapin talqini – bu quyidagi yurishlar bilan boshlanadigan shaxmat debyuti:

 1. e4 c5
 2. c3

Ushbu talqin rus shaxmat ustasi Semyon Alapin (1856—1923) sharafiga nomlangan. Koʻp yillar davomida ushbu yurish mashhur boʻlmagan, chunki 2…d5 yurishidan soʻng qoralar oson tenglikka erishadi deb hisoblanganSiegbert Tarrasch wrote, using descriptive chess notation, "To 2.P-QB3? Black can advantageously reply with 2...P-Q4!." Siegbert Tarrasch, The Game of Chess, David McKay, 1938, p. 322.  (1994 Hays Publishing edition).Walter Korn, much like Tarrasch, dismissed the Alapin with "2...P-Q4!=." Walter Korn, Modern Chess Openings, 11th Edition (commonly referred to as MCO-11), Pitman Publishing, 1972, p. 148. ..

Bugungi kunda Alapin eng mustahkam va mashhur anti-sitsiliyancha yurishlardan biri hisoblanadi. Bugungi kunda Alapindan Yevgeniy Sveshnikov, Eduardas Rozentalis, Sergey Tiviakov, Dushko Pavasovich va Drajen Sermek kabi grossmeysterlar foyalanadi. Magnus Karlsen 2023-yilgi FIDE Jahon kubogida Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaaga qarshi taybreykda oʻynadi.

 Variantlar 
 2. … d7-d5 — asosiy davomiy yurish
 2. … Kg8-f6
 2. … e7-e6
 2. … d7-d6
 2. … g7-g6
 2. … e7-e5

 Adabiyotlar 
 Свешников Е. Э. Сицилианская для любителей. Том 1. (1. e4 c5 2. c3 — все, кроме 2…Кf6), Russian Chess House, 2006 — 280с.
 Свешников Е. Э. Сицилианская для любителей. Том 2. (1. e4 c5 2. c3 Кf6), Russian Chess House, 2006.

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