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Sicilian Defence: 1.e4 c5 in Chess Openings
Your games in the Sicilian Defence have sharp attacks. Gain insights on how to play the Sicilian Defence. This book gives you more ideas to help you play exciting chess and win games. You will add ideas you can use to win your own games. Try it! Tim Sawyer reveals strategies and stories from a career of playing interesting games. The author tested ideas in the Sicilian against masters, experts and club players. He shares lessons learned from 40 years of play. This book covers the entire opening. The main lines with 2.Nf3 and 3.d4 include the Najdorf, Dragon, and Sveshnikov. Find also a collection of 2.c3 Alapin, 2.d4 Smith-Morra Gambit, 2.Nc3 Closed or Grand Prix variations, 2.b4 Wing Gambit and many others lines. You benefit from the author’s lifetime study of grandmasters who play the Sicilian Defense. They include Paulsen, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch, Kotov, Botvinnik, Polugaevsky, Korchnoi, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Larsen, Karpov, and Kasparov of old. More modern players include Anand, Leko, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Nunn, Shirov, Svidler, Topalov and Magnus Carlsen. You can easily become bored with chess when you play the same openings over and over again. To help you and to save you time, I group together related games full of interesting ideas from years of my own blog posts. I tell about fascinating chess players and I examine a huge variety of openings from main lines to gambits. They provide creative ideas and ways to improve. Consider new strategy and tactics and your interest will soar! When the tried new variations 30 years ago, it turned his career around and led to higher ratings. You are going to win games that you want to show your friends. Stay excited. Have fun playing chess!