Originally posted by wolfgang59
Black's third move is bad.
His fourth move is probably the least worst available.

Your suggestion of d5 gives him a shattered king-side and
doubled pawns after white takes the knight.

Black's third move wasn't as bad as his second. I say don't worry about the black bishop, the Dragon takes care of that. I absolutely hate e6 in the Sicilian. d6 all the way, it prevents White's e-pawn from getting up to no good. Back it up with Nc6 later.

Of course, this could be why I'm only a 1200 player.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Black's third move wasn't as bad as his second. I say don't worry about the black bishop, the Dragon takes care of that. I absolutely hate e6 in the Sicilian. d6 all the way, it prevents White's e-pawn from getting up to no good. Back it up with Nc6 later.

Of course, this could be why I'm only a 1200 player.

Bobby Fischer seems to have preferred that d6 variation too, but generally after White has played 2.Nf6 as I remember. So it must be good. However, too many people seem to have that variation memorized nowdays. But I don't see that e6 is all that bad. However, if I wanted to go that route, I believe would have prepared it first with Nc6. It seems to be a matter of what one is comfortable with.