From the preface: "This is a book about new and revised ideas in that most popular of openings--the Sicilian Defense...The ideas in this book were introduced into world tournament practice in the decade 1986-95 and were unnoticed or are in their infancy. From thousands of options at disposal, here are 250...my choices were not random. My profound desire is to inspire players on all levels to do independent work, a vital necessity for opening preparation in out time... Ideas...appear to be considerable improvements or merely interesting, provocative, or even clearly bad. Don't stop there... Starting out, you don't know which one of the new continuations is good and which is bad. Keep an open mind!... Don't accept without reservation the assessments as a startting point for your own investigations and your own conclusions.... Try to be objective in your analysis. If you have a close, trustworthy chess friend, share these analyses with him or her. The criticism of second pair of eyes is necessary to avoid mistakes and disappointments.... Most of the games in this book are very entertaining. Improve your tactical skill by finding the right continuation in the positions shown in the diagrams."

Sicilian Defense in the Last Decade

Humor & Entertainment

Minev, Nikolay

Puzzles & Games

S1 Editrice

In the second half of 20th century, the game of chess swept around the world. ''The Royal Game had become a game of the people.'' Chess Informant appeared, collecting some of the most precious games created by chess players. From millions of games played at some of the most important tournaments worldwide, 101,031 games have been published in the first 100 volumes of Chess Informant (1966-2007).

1000 Best of Best

Krnic, Zdenko

The Caro-Kann Defence Knight Variation

Sergio Curtacci

Format-cm 24 x 17; Pag. 240 in each volume; Algebraic annotation with figurines; Opening Classification ECO; Approx. 400 games plus theoretic and written articles in each number; Ranking and results tables of the most prestegious tournaments.

The Bird Variation in the Ruy Lopez

Pietro Rotariu, Gheorghe; Cimmino

Rotariu

Goring Gambit

Pietro Cimmino

<p>Caro-Kann Defence Advance Variation (B12-CK 4)</p>

Caro-Kann Defence

Tirabassi, Maurizio

Dutch Defence Leningrad Variation

Luccioni,Massimo

Flohr-Mikenas A18-A19

Konikowski,F.M.Jerzy

Labourdonnais System in the Sicilian Defence: B32

Adolf Neumann

The Modern Benoni is one of the most frequently used defensive systems against the Queen's Opening. The reasons for this popularity are to be found in the fact that it is one of the most active systems at Black's disposal. In certain variations the Modern Benoni assumes characteristics very similar to those of the King's Indian Defence which, indeed, is a very close relative: in this particular case the "pawn assault", which will be dealt with in this monograph merges with it in a most singular fashion. This sequence of moves is the most immediate and direct attempt at a central breach which, in this case, far from representing the pursuit of a precise strategic objective, is transformed into a tactic aimed at gaining profit from the spatial and development advantage White has enjoyed right from the very first moves. The developments springing from it invariably give rise to violent and uncertain battles.  In this book we have omitted the variation characterized by the Bishop mate in "b5" (A67) since the argument is fully dealt with in another monograph, published by s1 Editrice in 1993, thus we would suggest that the reader wishing to complete his study of 7.f4, buy this book.

King's Indian Four Pawns Attack: A66-A69

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