Rep against Sicilian?

Hello everyone!
Does anyone know of an anti-Sicilian opening I could try?
I always feel like my center is unstable in the Sicilian.
I am a very tactical player who likes open positions, and I don't have a problem with learning a lot of theory.
Thanks in advance for any ideas you all may have. I have thought about the grand prix, but are there any other ideas?
Also, grand prix seems to break down when black plays the accelerated dragon.

@ChessMathNerd said in #1:
> Hello everyone!
> Does anyone know of an anti-Sicilian opening I could try?
> I always feel like my center is unstable in the Sicilian.
> I am a very tactical player who likes open positions, and I don't have a problem with learning a lot of theory.
> Thanks in advance for any ideas you all may have. I have thought about the grand prix, but are there any other ideas?
> Also, grand prix seems to break down when black plays the accelerated dragon.
By sicilian I feel that you mean the najdorfs. I play the najdorf as black all the time. if you want to know how to crush the najdorf see a few of my games =) . I feel the most challenged when white plays the mainline with Bg5 and O-O-O. The calmer lines are okay. The engine shows equal a lot of times but defending is not easy as black in many cases.

What's wrong with d4 ? It is tactical and theorical.
If you prefer to be the one choosing the opening not black there is the morra and alapin which are ok, not great.

Ok everyone. I appreciate the responses. It is quite clear that I have no clue how to play a Sicilian correctly. I practically never castle queenside in it.

Castle long and crush the kingside usually is the main strat against most d6 sicillians (yugoslav, keres, richter rauser, english attacks all are about that). Against Nc6 and e6 not so much.

You may look at the different names of the sub lines in e.g. Scid, it has a nice ECO browser (Sicilian is B20 to B99). Then look here at Lichess what the GMs play in these lines. Yes, to castle long and play g4-g5, that's a common idea, but of course it all depends on what black plays. E.g. if black plays e7-e5 white usually plays it more positional in the center and on the queenside, pressing on d5. In general, d5 is the key square of the Sicilian, which white tries to keep under control. If black can achieve the pawn push d5, he often has equalized or more. Castling long and playing g5 (driving away the Nf6) is actually an attempt to increase the control over d5. Black presses on e4, he sometimes even sacs an exchange on c3 in order to win that pawn. White therefore often protects the e-pawn with f2-f3, (English attack), which also prepares g4, but sometimes white also plays f2-f4(-f5) and protects the e-pawn with his pieces, e.g. Be2-f3. Then there are a ton of very concrete lines which one just needs to know. But above stratagems are relevant in all those lines.

Edit: Ok, I see you are above 2000, so you know all those stratagems already.

Here are some common lines I frequently face with white. If you want to play 3.d4 ("I am fine with learning lots of theory"), have a look at those and check out their names. I added the Maroczy setups (white manages to play c4) to denote the slight inaccuracy of black's play (in my opinion, allowing Maroczy is inaccurate, I am fine if you disagree, you have a point).

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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6
( 2...e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
( 4...Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qf3 )
( 4...a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4
( 6...Qc7 7.a3 )
7.Qd3 )
( 4...d6 5.c4 )
5.Nc3 Nc6
( 5...Bb4 6.e5 )
( 5...a6 6.e5 )
6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Ne4 )
( 2...Nc6 3.d4
( 3.Bb5 )
3...cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
( 4...g6 5.c4 )
5.Nc3 e5
( 5...g6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 )
6.Ndb5 d6
( 6...a6 7.Nd6+ )
( 6...h6 7.Nd6+ )
7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 )
( 2...g6 3.c4 )
( 2...Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nc3 e6
( 4...Nxc3 )
)
( 2...a6 3.c4 )
3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
( 4...g6 5.c4 )
( 4...e5 5.Bb5+ )
( 4...e6 5.c4 )
( 4...Nc6 5.c4 )
5.Nc3 a6
( 5...g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.O-O-O )
( 5...Nc6 6.Bg5 e6
( 6...Bd7 7.Qd2 Rc8 8.f4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Qa5 10.e5 )
7.Qd2 Be7 8.O-O-O )
( 5...e5 6.Bb5+ )
( 5...e6 6.g4 )
6.h3 e6
( 6...e5 7.Nf3 )
7.g4 *

Anti Sicilian :

Closed sicilian
Grand prix attack
Alapin (c3 Sicilian)
Rossolimo

1 d4 best by test :)

In the anti Sicilian I like the grand prix attack.

The closed Sicilian in KIA it is interesting but the grand prix is stronger to me.

Rossolimo very interesting but if they not play Nc6 you must have a back up

I like the c3 Sicilian more positional

There is the prins variations of the open sicilian which is interesting. Magnus played it against Karjakin in the Wch match.

1 E4 c5
2 Nf3 Nc6
3 d4 cxd4
4Nxd4 Nf6
5 f3!?

Having loads of experience in the black side of the Najdorf, I have the most uncomfortable experiences with the Bg5 Variation.
It doesn't allow the more solid 6...e5 variations and leads to a Scheveningen structure most of the time.
But if you want to play it you should look up the Poisoned Pawn variation. Highly theoretical, but you said you have no problem with that.

@ChessMathNerd said in #1:
> Hello everyone!
> Does anyone know of an anti-Sicilian opening I could try?
> I always feel like my center is unstable in the Sicilian.
> I am a very tactical player who likes open positions, and I don't have a problem with learning a lot of theory.
> Thanks in advance for any ideas you all may have. I have thought about the grand prix, but are there any other ideas?
> Also, grand prix seems to break down when black plays the accelerated dragon.

I play the Grand Prix. I like playing against the Sicilian. I have fun. You said you like open positions. For open positions I would play the Smith Morra. In the Grand Prix there can be some tactical sacrifices. I think you would like both from what you said. Try both.