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Lalit0007

Which is better?

MonkeyH

Are you going to compare every e4 defense against Sicilian...

Come on.. most openings/defenses aren't better or worse. 

Sicilian/Ruy Lopez don't really have advantage for one or the other and caro kann/sicilian is just different ways of playing. Not better for one or the other.

TheBlunderfulPlayer
Lalit0007 wrote:

Which is better?

They're both good.

Apotek

Caro-Kann tends to be rather more solid,whereas the Sicilian might be a tad riskier but offering slightly better winning chances for the second player.However,these are generalisations,the fact of the matter is that both of these openings are first class and trusted by the elite.

Lalit0007

Sicilian is slightly risker I think.

TheBlunderfulPlayer
abrahampenrose wrote:

Did OP just start a thread then answer his own question? 

Yes.

aman_makhija
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thatwhichpasses
It is odd to ask the question in such a way that one is better than the other when both have strong points. I actually played the CK for a long time and still do after abandoning the Sicialian. The Sicialian, for me, was a line that did not work. It was a couple years ago and a 2000+ player was sort of tutoring me through it. I have noticed that when I play against the Sicilian as white it never really goes too far into the actual line. It is all out the book in about four or five moves. Seems it is a line suited for players who are perhaps 1600 or higher. The CK can get very convoluted and is a good line for puzzle solvers. again, when I play against it as white it is often off on some strange tangent in about four or five moves. As if the person learned the first three or four moves then is making stuff up. But that is a way to do it too of course.
PradSquare

i think caro kann is better because its less riskier and its also very easy to learn

TrickyKnight001
Sicilian is better. Caro kann is just boring for black
PradSquare
TrickyKnight001 wrote:
Sicilian is better. Caro kann is just boring for black

i guess that makes sense whenever i play it it is boring but its very easy to learn

PradSquare

but sicillian is very hard to learn

TrickyKnight001
@PradSquare true. But if well learned, it can crush anyone anytime. I know, because Xavier bot (1900) was always playing 1. …c5 after my e4, and always crushed me.
TrickyKnight001

And @PradSquare, I was learning Caro-kann; but with white. I think the best response with white against Caro-kann is this line:

The two knights variation.

PradSquare
TrickyKnight001 wrote:

And @PradSquare, I was learning Caro-kann; but with white. I think the best response with white against Caro-kann is this line:

The two knights variation.

yeah i play it all the time as my response for white

PradSquare

also @TrickyKnight001 i dont know how to play it fully tho

ahass8215

Yeah.. I like carocan defense.. I don't know why I like carocan defense.. Maybe, I learn about carocan defense