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Paddy God Member Offline The truth will out! Posts: 966 Location: Manchester Joined: 01/10/03 Gender:	Re: Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book? Reply #6 - 08/26/21 at 22:29:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	The Emms book is still a good intro. The Sveshnikov book is excellent, of course, and I have huge respect for the late GM and all his work. But the book is huge, not very user-friendly for getting started and it needs work to construct a repertoire out of it. The Chess Stars book "Squeezing the Sicilian" is also very big but at least it gives a repertoire. The Chessable course by Johan-Sebastian Christiansen is worth considering, but it's not cheap. A quick fix suggestion: the Emms book, plus make a database of all of David Howell's B22 games!


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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book? Reply #5 - 08/26/21 at 12:48:25	Post Tools	Print Post
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TN God Member Offline Posts: 3420 Joined: 11/07/08 Gender:	Re: Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book? Reply #4 - 07/15/16 at 21:16:58	Post Tools	Print Post
	I would think that the ChessPublishing Antis column would be hard to beat. Lots of annotated Alapin games, even decent novelties for the top guys.

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Paddy God Member Offline The truth will out! Posts: 966 Location: Manchester Joined: 01/10/03 Gender:	Re: Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book? Reply #3 - 07/15/16 at 11:33:05	Post Tools	Print Post
	I agree - I'd always recommend Emms's book as the very best starting point. (I won 800 euros in an international open by using one of his lines.) However, 2 c3 has now acquired its own extensive theory, some of it very concrete, and it can no longer be regarded as a short-cut. A transitional approach might be to learn and play 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 e6 3 c3 and see if you feel that the positions suit you, while playing your previous repertoire against other second moves by Black.


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tipau Full Member Offline I Like ChessPublishing! Posts: 172 Location: London, England Joined: 01/25/08	Re: Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book? Reply #2 - 07/14/16 at 08:25:05	Post Tools	Print Post
	The Starting Out book by John Emms is very good and gives several White options in the main lines.

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RoleyPoley God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 746 Location: London Joined: 12/29/13 Gender:	Re: Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book? Reply #1 - 07/13/16 at 18:54:59	Post Tools	Print Post
	Pingudon wrote on 07/13/16 at 17:33:03: Hi I give up. So many variations against the sicilian. I am not a pro player and I do not have enough time to study. Please tell me a good book to learn it well from scratch. If you are looking for books, both of Collins' repertoire books cover it. He also has a chess explained book in the opening and I seem to remember a book by rozentalis which was very popular about 15 years ago but maybe dated now. Sveshnikov has written a large book on the opening, and is supposed to be very good...I just don't know how suitable it is for those new to the opening.

	"As Mikhail Tal would say ' Let's have a bit of hooliganism! '" Victor Bologan.
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Pingudon Senior Member Offline Hi chess friends!! Posts: 286 Joined: 10/04/06 Gender:	Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book? 07/13/16 at 17:33:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hi I give up. So many variations against the sicilian. I am not a pro player and I do not have enough time to study. Please tell me a good book to learn it well from scratch.


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