Supi vs the Sicilian – Part 4 + PGN June 2, 2026

Sometimes a single move, played almost in passing by an elite grandmaster, contains more poison than a thousand pages of established theory. When GM Luis Supi watched GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov reach for 7.Be2 against the Sveshnikov Sicilian, his first reaction was disbelief. He knows this opening as well as anyone, yet here was a move he had never seriously considered — and the more he searched for a refutation, the clearer it became that there wasn’t one. What looked like a casual sidestep turned out to be a genuine, and currently underrated, way to fight one of Black’s most reliable defences.