Sicilian Defence Sicilian Defence The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for White due to the high success rate of the Sicilian defence against 1.e4. "New In Chess" stated in its 2000 Yearbook that of the games in its database, White scored 56.1% in 296,200 games beginning 1.d4, but 54.1% in 349,855 games beginning 1.e4, mainly due to the Sicilian, which held White to a 52.3% score in 145,996 games. 17% of all games between
Tactical decision game consisted of scenarios that described situations faced by the commanders of battalions, companies, and platoons. In 1982, the Education Center of the United States Marine Corps Development and Education Command used this package as the starting point for a series of three "instructional pamphlets": "Tactical Problems for Battalion Commanders", "Tactical Problems for Platoon Leaders/Company Commanders", and "Tactical Problems for Squad Leaders". In addition to twelve problems taken from "What Now, Lieutenant?", the "Tactical Problems ..." series contained sixteen games that were written expressly for the series by Chief Warrant Officer Bryan N. Lavender, USMC. Like the scenarios in "What Now,