Winnen met het Siciliaans 2

Où l’on constate que, tel le marquis de Sade, Attila Schneider n’aura jamais tant publié qu’après sa mort… Foin de comparaisons ambiguës : ce double volume clôt donc la série sur les débuts avec 1.e4 commencée l’an dernier. La formule reste inchangée : un classique (et forcément assez bref) exposé théorique suivi de quelques parties d’illustration (une soixantaine au total par volume). Le premier tome contient tout ce qui n’est pas dans le second.

J'étais sur le point de faire une critique relativement élogieuse de ce nouvel ouvrage sur la variante Alapin (qui n'a toujours rien à voir avec la cuniculiculture) - mais voilà que vient juste de sortir en français le bouquin de Svechnikov sur le même sujet... Ce qui risque de réserver celui-ci à ceux qui veulent vraiment tout savoir sur la variante (qui achèteront les deux). Alors...

The Sicilian Defence is the most attractive and most complicated opening in chess. If you don't play the Sicilian with White or Black, you miss much of the beauty and the challenges our royal game offers. For White 1.e4 players, building a repertoire against 1...c5 should be their priority.

Croatian top grandmaster Ivan Saric is one of today's greatest Sicilian experts. He plays 1.e4 with White and the Najdorf with Black! With The Open Sicilian, based on his highly acclaimed Chessable course, he has managed something impressive: a watertight repertoire against the Sicilian of just over 400 pages. But reading this one volume, your knowledge of this opening and chess, in general, will make a spectacular jump.

The Open Sicilian is not a phonebook crammed with computer lines but a textbook full of 21st-century chess wisdom. Saric covers the entire range of Sicilians, from obscure sidelines to the main lines: the Najdorf, the Taimanov, the Rauzer, the Kan, the Sveshnikov, and the various Dragons. His approach, firmly based on the ideas of the English Attack, is very ambitious, and he supports his claims with deep analysis and illuminating and elaborate verbal explanation.

Saric has written a book that will serve as a standard work for many years. He offers you the content to be fully armoured against all the intricacies of all the topical Sicilian lines.

Ivan Saric (1990) is a Croatian chess player who became an International Master at 17 and a Grandmaster at 18. He became U18 European Champion in 2007, U18 World Champion in 2008, and won the European Individual title in 2018. Saric beat Magnus Carlsen for his country at the 2014 Olympiad in Tromsø.

434 pages