notyetagm wrote on 09/24/08 at 20:29:17:


This post is almost identical to another one you made elsewhere:

notyetagm wrote on 07/22/08 at 21:11:22:


A book is "stupendous" that you haven´t even seen yet? Do me a favour. I´ve seen that you have started a thread on another "upcoming" everyman book elsewhere in a similar fashion. These kind of posts are blatant advertising, please stop hijacking the forum like this.

An upcoming book by EVERYMAN CHESS is just what you need.

http://www.everymanchess.com/display.php?id=491

This book looks stupendous! It is exactly what I need, as I am actually stupid enough to follow McDonald's recommendation in Starting Out: 1 e4! and play the Open Siclian.

Seven Ways to Smash the Sicilian
Yury Lapshun Nick Conticello

One of the main reasons the Sicilian is the most popular opening is that is it promotes such bold and aggressive chess. But as White it's not enough just to attack; you must do so in the right way, using the appropriate weapons. In this book Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello introduce, categorize and analyse the 'Seven Deadly Sacrifices' White has at his disposal. It's impossible to play Open Sicilian positions with either colour without an intimate knowledge of these sacrifices, and by using illustrative games the authors teach you everything you need to know, including the vital skill of how to recognize when favourable sacrificial conditions arise.

*The ultimate guide to Sicilian bashing

*Covers main lines of the Sicilian

*Includes a feast of entertaining games and violent sacrifices

Published June 2009 EU, July 2009 US | ISBN 9781857445954
Format Paperback, 192 pages

"Desmontando la Siciliana", You better buy it at the editorial site. I have used it some times with a very good service.

http://www.esferaeditorial.com/es/compra.php

Besides the Anad-books by Khalifman and experts vs. sicilian there is also a nice spanish book by GM de la Villa "desmetando la siciliana".
However it is quite difficult to get.

It is  a very nice book, all main lines , English attack vs Najdorf, Jugoslavian attack against dragon and so on.

Yeah I'm not so sure I would use Starting Out: 1. e4! I would lean towards using the Khalifman series if you want strong lines, but you'd have to be willing to do a little bit of work, because the Sicilian covers Volumes 8-10 now, and 11 is coming out soon, with 12 and probably 13 to follow! Experts is quite good too, but with the amount of material to cover in the open sicilians, you expect some shortcutting or missed variations. I also greatly prefer the tree format in Khalifman to complete games. In my opinion the complete games format loses more and more value as the material gets more and more complicated. In the case of the entire open sicilians complex, a tree format is a better choice imo.

I would certainly use "Experts vs The Sicilian" as a start. When I played the open sicilian myself, I was using "Beating The Sicilian 2" and "Beating The Sicilian 3". A good thing with these books is that you get a feel of which sicilians there are and possible transpositions. Both books (EVTS and BTS) advocate main lines. This is very hard work but should be quite rewarding. I haven't studied EVTS that close, but it seems good. The chess stars series that TalJechin mentioned is of course another option. It's more recent. Again, main lines are given and you'll have many many pages to digest.

Another way would be to look at certain 1.e4-players. Adams is now playing the open sicilian and play calm but not lame variations.

PS. I find it a bit odd that people suggest anti sicilians when the original question asked for material for the open sicilian.

Yes I agree with you, that repertoire for White is interesting. But Sveshnikov's players could try to get their opening after 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 and now the most played is 6.Nb5 which often result into a Sveshnikov transposition with 6..d6 7.Bf4 e5 8.Bg5. So, what would you suggest, the second most popular: 6.Nxc6?

Other well-known idea is to get an "optimal" c3 Sicilian with 2.Nf3 and 3.c3 only against 2..Nc6 or 2..e6 where Black is now less flexible. Of course against 2..d6, 3.c3 is not the same system.