HELLSTEN - Play the Sicilian Kan

VIGORITO - The Sicilian Dragon

Bon, voilà du plus animé Avec le Dragon, il y a deux bons conseils à toujours garder en mémoire : si vous voulez le jouer, ne jouez que ça (celui-ci est de Tiviakov, qui sait de quoi il parle) ; et si vous voulez le jouer, lisez tout ce qui sort sur le sujet (celui-là est de moi, mais je crois que personne ne le contestera). Car la créature est multiforme, et elle change vite : ce deuxième volume de la série Chess Developments, qui fait le point sur toutes les lignes chaudes de l'attaque yougoslave, est donc le bienvenu..

The Sicilian Defence is the most attractive and most complicated opening in chess. If you don't play the Sicilian with White or Black, you miss much of the beauty and the challenges our royal game offers. For White 1.e4 players, building a repertoire against 1...c5 should be their priority.

Croatian top grandmaster Ivan Saric is one of today's greatest Sicilian experts. He plays 1.e4 with White and the Najdorf with Black! With The Open Sicilian, based on his highly acclaimed Chessable course, he has managed something impressive: a watertight repertoire against the Sicilian of just over 400 pages. But reading this one volume, your knowledge of this opening and chess, in general, will make a spectacular jump.

The Open Sicilian is not a phonebook crammed with computer lines but a textbook full of 21st-century chess wisdom. Saric covers the entire range of Sicilians, from obscure sidelines to the main lines: the Najdorf, the Taimanov, the Rauzer, the Kan, the Sveshnikov, and the various Dragons. His approach, firmly based on the ideas of the English Attack, is very ambitious, and he supports his claims with deep analysis and illuminating and elaborate verbal explanation.

Saric has written a book that will serve as a standard work for many years. He offers you the content to be fully armoured against all the intricacies of all the topical Sicilian lines.

Ivan Saric (1990) is a Croatian chess player who became an International Master at 17 and a Grandmaster at 18. He became U18 European Champion in 2007, U18 World Champion in 2008, and won the European Individual title in 2018. Saric beat Magnus Carlsen for his country at the 2014 Olympiad in Tromsø.

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