Rossolimo Rampage Crush the 2…Nc6 Sicilians Oct 17, 2025

Humiliate Black’s Sharpest Sicilians with
This 2-Step Bishop Burying Sequence

When Black meets your 1.e4 with 1…c5 and 2…Nc6, you’re suddenly staring at a minefield. The Sveshnikov can roll your king flat under a pawn storm. The Classical can grind you into dust in a long endgame. And the Four Knights? That one’s a tactical circus, where getting clowned is lethal. But here’s the good news — you only need 2 moves to shut them all down!

First, you drop your bishop on b5. Then you snap off the knight on the very next move.

Your key to beating 2…Nc6 Sicilians:
3.Bb5 and 4.Bxc6

And just like that, you lock up Black’s bishop behind their own pawns…

However Black recaptures on c6,
they end up with a bad bishop
and a busted structure

…while you dance on squares where Black’s bishop can’t follow — and enjoy your virtual extra piece!

Black has a terrible light-square
bishop on the queenside. So you
hit the kingside dark squares!

This is the Rossolimo Variation.

And if this sounds like your kind of chess — clear, strategic, minus the constant dread that an axe is about to drop…

…then you’ll love Rossolimo Rampage: Crush the 2…Nc6 Sicilians by International Master Alexander Krastev.

Krastev is a 3-time German Youth Champion and the 2021 European U16 Champion.

He’s also a lifelong 1.e4 player. And against the Sicilian, Bb5-systems like the Rossolimo Variation are his specialty.