Steamrolling the Sicilian

Play for a Win with 5.f3!

Published by New in Chess
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

Experienced grandmaster Sergey Kasparov presents a surprising way to combat The Sicilian Defence, Black’s most popular choice against 1.e4. White unbalances the position of his opponent right from the start, gains space and prepares to steamroll his way to victory. This repertoire is complete and contains many new ideas and improvements on existing opening theory. Kasparov writes lively, personal and highly instructive prose, and includes many exercises to test the amateur reader.
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Product Details

  • Publisher: New in Chess (September 17, 2014)
  • Length: 240 pages
  • ISBN13: 9789056915155

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Raves and Reviews

The book is light and easy-going. The author emphasizes the pragmatic nature of the proposed repertoire: less to learn, avoiding 'pet lines', strategically sound, and so on. An original book.

– Grandmaster Glenn Flear, Diplo: Towards more inclusive and effective diplomacy

The idea behind this: avoid theoretical battles and surprise your opponent. Furthermore, after playing 5.f3 it is almost impossible to end up in a position that is not solid.

– Martin Rieger, Schachwelt

A decent alternative to surprise a well-armed opponent. The book as a whole is enthusiastically written and there are many new ideas.

– Carsten Hansen, ChessCafe.com

The author is not related to Garry but he is a fine writer. There are plenty of games demonstrating how White can extract a slight edge against popular lines. A nice Sicilian repertoire.

– Gary Lane, International Master, CHESS Magazine

Steamrolling the Sicilian has not, of course, refuted the Sicilian, because that is impossible, but the typical Black counter-play is being effectively neutralized.

– Johan Hut, Noord-Hollands Dagblad

An excellent overview of an interesting variation.

– Joe Petrolito, Australasian Chess Magazine

I like this book a lot. It is a hefty tome full of material that we can learn from, also in 2014.

– Richard Vedder, FIDE Master, Netherlands, Schakers.info

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