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How to Beat the Sicilian Defence: An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White [Paperback]

Gawain Jones
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30 April 2011
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

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Everyman Chess; 1 edition (30 April 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1857446631
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857446630
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 22.6 x 24.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 155,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars The Sicilian is Beaten 31 Jan 2012
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars how to beat the Sicilian defense 25 July 2011
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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.
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