Chess opening
Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan VariationB33
The Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code B33. It is reached after the moves:
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Main continuations
- Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation, Exchange Variation (B33)
- Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation, Retreat Variation (B33)
- Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation, Schlechter Variation (B33)
- Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation, Bird Variation (B33)
- Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan Variation, Sveshnikov Variation (B33)
Related lines in the Sicilian Defense
- Sicilian Defense (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Amazon Attack (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Big Clamp Formation (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Bowdler Attack (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Brick Variation (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Czerniak Attack (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Czerniak Attack, Queen Fianchetto Variation (B20)
- Sicilian Defense: Euwe Attack, Prins Gambit (B20)
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