Do you know, do you have certain lines in your head that you're for sure gonna use, and how do you decide them?

Yeah.

So the, the origin story of, uh, this course, um, is, kind of has its roots in, in I've been working with like, you know, the promising juniors for, uh, probably over 30 years now, and if they wanna play D4, it's not that hard to pick out some lines.

Like, what, what's your personality? You wanna play something very classical, you wanna play something aggressive, do you wanna play a fianchetto? There's all kinds of choices, right? But when students wanna play E4, especially young players, you kind of, you want them attacking.

You want them playing the open Sicilian and things like that, right? But it's kind of overwhelming, so they end up playing like the C3 Sicilian or the closed Sicilian or something that's, that's not as good.

Um, and to me, that kind of defeats the purpose of playing E4.

Of course, there's always some kind of tricky thing you can do.

Oh, yeah