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MartinC God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 2073 Joined: 07/24/06	Re: Is the Classical Sicilian that bad? Reply #2 - 08/24/12 at 08:30:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	Well there's that (old!) book by Wells which was comprehensive. Could probably team that with the coverage here and get pretty close. Yes a bit of work involved, but that's of definite benefit in the end The Rauser seems to have put people off by and large, but I doubt if it's anything too serious. Just annoying cf the Keres attack vs the Schevy etc.


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Stigma God Member Offline There is a crack in everything. Posts: 3265 Joined: 11/07/06 Gender:	Re: Is the Classical Sicilian that bad? Reply #1 - 08/24/12 at 00:55:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	The last two books are by Yermolinsky and Raetsky/Chetverik I believe. But yeah, neither very comprehensive nor very recent, though I like Yermo's writing. I might return to the Classical if I could: a) find a line I really trust against the Richter-Rauzer b) study long and hard to finally understand the Boleslavsky structure - I had a dismal score with both 6.Be2 e5 and 6.f3 e5. Sure there is 6.Be2 g6, but against 6.f3 I never found any alternatives to 6...e5 that I was comfortable with.

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najdorfslayer Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 153 Joined: 05/08/09	Is the Classical Sicilian that bad? 08/23/12 at 23:10:15	Post Tools	Print Post
	Am I the only person who would love to see a really good well written comprehensive coverage of Classical Sicilian? My ideal Rep v Richter-Rauzer (Kozul variation) v Sozin 6...Qb6 v 6.Be2 both 6...g6 and 6...e5 v 6.Be3 Ng4 v 6.f4 and 6.g3 6...g6 v 6.f3 e5 Nice mix of Dragon, Boleslavsky and Schevingen type set ups.


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