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The Sicilian Defence is by far the most popular chess opening. If you play 1 e4 as White, on average you are likely to meet the Sicilian in virtually every other game! You need to be prepared to face the Sicilian at all times, and a ready-to-use repertoire against it is an indispensible weapon.
In this book, Gawain Jones confronts the challenge of meeting the Sicilian head on. He builds an Anti-Sicilian repertoire for White based on lines he has successfully employed at grandmaster level. These are sound, reliable options but they also contain more than a drop of poison. Variations covered include the highly popular King's Indian Attack and various Bb5 systems.
* A Grandmaster's repertoire against the Sicilian
* Highlights key tactical and positional ideas for both sides
* Ideal for improvers, and club and tournament players
In this book, Gawain Jones confronts the challenge of meeting the Sicilian head on. He builds an Anti-Sicilian repertoire for White based on lines he has successfully employed at grandmaster level. These are sound, reliable options but they also contain more than a drop of poison. Variations covered include the highly popular King's Indian Attack and various Bb5 systems.
* A Grandmaster's repertoire against the Sicilian
* Highlights key tactical and positional ideas for both sides
* Ideal for improvers, and club and tournament players
About the Author
Gawain Jones is a Grandmaster and one of the UK's leading players. He represented England at the 2008 Chess Olympiad and gained an individual silver medal playing top board at the 2006 European Club Championship.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This book provides a White repertoire against the Sicilian without entering into an open Sicilian with 3.d4. Jones does this by proposing the Moscow variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+), the Rossolimo variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5) and the King's Indian Attack (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d3). Jones has written an opening repertoire book exactly as I like them. The repertoire is perfectly structured by its chapters, with each chapter providing a summary of the main lines and fleshed out with full game annotations. He writes exceedingly well with lots of verbal annotation, but detail where necessary, and writes in such a manner that the reader feels like the two of you are secretly conspiring against a common enemy. The presentation is very clear which enables the detail to be skipped over in the first reading. The proposed repertoire is to be recommended if you wish to avoid the main line open Sicilian. Certainly at club level your opponent is less likely to know it which offers good opportunities. I would say that the repertoire is primarily based around a positional approach of attacking black's weak pawn structure which is created by giving up the b5 Bishop in many variations. If you like positional play, then this is a good open Sicilian antidote. Of course, this is a generalisation and some variations require strong aggressive open play. Being a King's Indian Attack player, I also like the fact that the repertoire includes the KIA against the ...e6 variation, but with the modern Qe2 rather than Re1. I have now included many of the proposed lines into my play and the book remains one of my favourite and most-read books.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
how to beat the Sicilian defense
25 July 2011
This is an excellent book. The first part is White lines with 3. Bb5. The last 1/3 is 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 and now since White cannot reasonably play 3. Bb5 the author gives 3. d3 in detail. His main line here is 3. d3 d5 4. Qe2!?. This line is not my "cup of tea" but the line is explained in detail and should score well for those taking the time to study this variation.
The 3.Bb5 lines are clearly explained. The whole book is very easy to read. The author has his own unique ideas scattered through the book.
There is nothing really "wrong" about this book except my own preferences against 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d3!? Actually I give it 4 1/2 stars.
The 3.Bb5 lines are clearly explained. The whole book is very easy to read. The author has his own unique ideas scattered through the book.
There is nothing really "wrong" about this book except my own preferences against 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d3!? Actually I give it 4 1/2 stars.
8 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Expensive for so-so analysis.
5 Jun 2011
I went to my local Barnes and Noble and saw this on the shelf. I flipped through it and thought of several things about this title. One: it's basically about the Moscow/Rossolimo variation against the Sicilian. Not a bad variation to try against the Sicilian but only if there are clear variation branches describing what to do when opponents try different lines.
Second, the problem I had by looking through this book is variations given are not following a clear set of moves when reading through the annotated games. This is my general impression but I thought the variations given for the games seemed rather on the light side but giving more generalized coverage of why moves are made. I think this was the approach by the author of the book...but in my opinion, if you want serious thorough analysis of variations for an opening line against the Sicilian to study...this book is not quite it. By itself this book is great for the annotated games using the Moscow/Rossolimo vatiation but don't take this book seriously for opening theory study.
By comparison, if you want a good line and great analysis for study against the Sicilian defense...you can't go wrong with The Complete c3 Sicilian by Evgeny Sveshnikov by New in Chess. This gives tons of annotated games for study with short but detailed analysis of lines showing what happens had certain moves been played. But the best thing about this book compared to the one in the new Everyman title is that it comes with a clear variation branch in the back of the book detailing the lines showing where you can quickly find the games for study and analysis. I don't recall if the Everyman title has such a variation branch listing in the back of its book. It does list the names of the players and the games where they can be found...but not a detailed tree listing the variations for those games.
Overall this book is great for overall chess analysis study but I wouldn't take this to be the bible for chess analysis of the Moscow/Rossolimo. I would hold off until a better title gets released if you want to study the Moscow/Rossolimo. My suggestion would be to wait for either New in Chess or Quality Chess to release a similar title if you're serious about studying this line.
Second, the problem I had by looking through this book is variations given are not following a clear set of moves when reading through the annotated games. This is my general impression but I thought the variations given for the games seemed rather on the light side but giving more generalized coverage of why moves are made. I think this was the approach by the author of the book...but in my opinion, if you want serious thorough analysis of variations for an opening line against the Sicilian to study...this book is not quite it. By itself this book is great for the annotated games using the Moscow/Rossolimo vatiation but don't take this book seriously for opening theory study.
By comparison, if you want a good line and great analysis for study against the Sicilian defense...you can't go wrong with The Complete c3 Sicilian by Evgeny Sveshnikov by New in Chess. This gives tons of annotated games for study with short but detailed analysis of lines showing what happens had certain moves been played. But the best thing about this book compared to the one in the new Everyman title is that it comes with a clear variation branch in the back of the book detailing the lines showing where you can quickly find the games for study and analysis. I don't recall if the Everyman title has such a variation branch listing in the back of its book. It does list the names of the players and the games where they can be found...but not a detailed tree listing the variations for those games.
Overall this book is great for overall chess analysis study but I wouldn't take this to be the bible for chess analysis of the Moscow/Rossolimo. I would hold off until a better title gets released if you want to study the Moscow/Rossolimo. My suggestion would be to wait for either New in Chess or Quality Chess to release a similar title if you're serious about studying this line.
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