Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening!
Against most Sicilian variations, White’s sharpest and often best weapon is queenside castling, a strategy that frequently leads to spectacular fireworks. Regrettably, these powerful charges have never been properly categorized. Until this book.In Sicilian Attacks, Grandmaster . . .
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7 Ways to Smash the Sicilian
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One of the main reasons the Sicilian is the most popular opening is that is it promotes such bold and aggressive chess. But as White its not enough just to attack; you must do so in the right way, using the appropriate weapons.
In this book, Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello introduce, categorize and analyze the Seven Deadly Sacrifices White has at his disposal. Its . . .
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Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black
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Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black, provides you with great insight to the Sicilian. The Sicilian is far and away the most popular chess opening. The reason is obviousit enables Black to fight for victory without taking excessive risks.
Given both the Sicilians fearsome reputation and the amount of theoretical preparation requires to tackle it head-on, many players . . .
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Play the Sicilian Kan: A Dynamic and Flexible Repertoi...
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Play the Sicilian Kan: A dynamic and flexible repertoire for Black, is a chess openings book written by Johan Hellsten and published by Everyman Chess. This excellent chess book demonstrates that the Kan is an ideal choice as an opening weapon against 1 e4--as it is one of the easiest variations of the Sicilian to learn and play.
Play the Sicilian Kan shows . . .
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Starting Out: Sicilian Najdorf
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The Sicilian Najdorf is one of Black's sharpest and most popular lines against 1 e4. From the very start Black directs the game into asymmetrical positions in which he or she can play for the win without unjustified risk. For this reason the Najdorf has been a firm favourite amongst the very elite of world chess, including Garry Kasparov and, before him, Bobby Fischer. What . . .
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The Scililan Dragon Revised
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The Sicilian Dragon is one of the most exciting and powerful openings in all chess—the Sicilian Dragon! Used by amateurs and champions a like, the dragon features brilliant combinations, no-holds barred assaults, wild sacrifices, and uncompromising positions. This new edition features bigger diagrams, the latest moves and developments and 30 new game examples. Eric Schiller, . . .
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Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian
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Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian
Are you bored of playing the same old openings time and time again? Fed up with constantly having to keep up with modern chess theory? Or perhaps you simply wish to play something new and exciting, but cannot decide between the numerous choices available? Dont despair help is on hand!In Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian, John Emms and Richard . . .
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Sicilian Taimanov
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The Sicilian Taimanov (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 e6 3 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nc6) is one of Black's most flexible ways of meeting 1 e4. It leads to the kind of tense, dynamic positions that appeal to players with counter-attacking inclinations, such as Judit Polgar, Joel Lautier and Vasily Ivanchuk. Indeed, Bobby Fischer turned to the Taimanov in the decisive game of his famous match with Boris . . .
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Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack
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Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack is a further addition to Everymans best-selling Starting Out series, which has been acclaimed for its original approach to tackling chess openings. International Master Gawain Jones revisits the fundamentals of this opening, elaborating on the crucial early moves and ideas for both sides in a way that is often neglected in other texts.
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Starting Out: Closed Sicilian
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The Closed Sicilian is an ideal weapon for players who wish for an aggressive way to attack the Sicilian but have neither the time nor the inclination to learn the seemingly endless mountains of opening theory associated with Open Sicilians. In the Closed Sicilian an awareness of the typical themes is far more important than memorising variations. White's play is logical and . . .
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A Complete Guide to the Grivas Sicilian
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This book is in every way a definitive guide: Efstratios Grivas provides the inside story on a variation of the Sicilian Defence that he has worked for more than 20 years to perfect, and which rightly bears his name. The Grivas Sicilian (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Qb6) has proved itself sound and reliable in practice, but is also far less well investigated than most . . .
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Fighting the Anti-Sicilians
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The Sicilian Defence is by far Blacks most popular answer to 1 e4 at all levels of chess. The reason is easy to understand: from the very first move Black unbalances the position and can play for a win without needing to take unjustified risks. This is particularly the case with the Open Sicilians, where Black can take comfort in the fact that his superior pawn structure ensures . . .
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Easy Guide to the Sicilian Scheveningen
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Discusses all variations resulting from the authentic Scheveningen move-order, with Black taking on the sharp Keres Attack head-on. Black sets up a 'small centre' and develops quickly -- unlike many Sicilian variations, Black's king is robustly defended.Cadogan's new Easy Guide series represents a new approach to chess openings books: just enough detail and just . . .
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The New Sicilian Dragon
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The Sicilian Dragon is a highly popular opening, ideal for players of all levels. It enjoys such a great appeal because it leads to fascinating and fun-to-play positions in which both players regularly attack each others kings with a complete lack of inhibition.
Grandmaster and well-known Sicilian Dragon expert Simon Williams takes a totally fresh look at this . . .
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Dismantling the Sicilian: A Complete Repertoire for Wh...
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The Sicilian Defense is the most widely played chess opening, both at club level and among top grandmasters. Since Black gets dynamic play in almost all variations, black players of all levels will probably continue to play the Sicilian for a long time to come.
It has been difficult for White to obtain any advantage in Sicilian sidelines, and this book therefore . . .
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Starting Out: The Sicilian, Second Edition
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This is an updated and largely expanded edition of Starting Out: The Sicilian, the highly acclaimed guide to the most popular and famous opening in chess.
In this user-friendly book, Grandmaster John Emms goes back to basics, studying the fundamental principles of the Sicilian Defence and its many variations. Throughout the book there are an abundance of notes, . . .
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Chess Explained: The c3 Sicilian
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Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is . . .
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Starting Out: Classical Sicilian
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Everyman Chess are delighted to present two further offerings from their original and best-selling Starting Out opening series. The Classical Sicilian is one of Blacks most popular and highly regarded opening choices against 1 e4, and its been a favourite of such greats as Vladimir Kramnik, Alexei Shirov and Vishy Anand. White has a number of aggressive ways to battle against the . . .
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Chess Developments: The Sicilian Dragon
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Chess Developments focuses on the current trends – concentrating on critical lines, theoretical novelties and powerful new ideas. It offers players of all levels the opportunity to keep up-to-date with current opening theory while also expanding and improving their repertoires.The Sicilian Dragon is undeniably one of the most popular and eagerly discussed chess openings. The . . .
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Slay the Sicilian!
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Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents a repertoire for White against the most popular opening in chess – the Sicilian Defence.Taylor’s repertoire is based first and foremost on the Open Sicilian, which is regarded as White’s most ambitious and challenging response to the Sicilian. He focuses on the classical Be2 lines, which were popularized by the . . .
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The Sicilian Scheveningen: Move by Move
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The Move by Move series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you . . .