PALLISER - Starting out: Sicilian Najdorf

Et vlan, un nouvel anti-anti-Siciliennes. A quand un anti-anti-anti-Siciliennes ? Blague à part, on sait que les « anti-Siciliennes » (a.k.a. Siciliennes non-ouvertes) sont la hantise du joueur de Sicilienne, moins à cause de leur danger intrinsèque qu’en raison du temps qu’il faut passer à les étudier. D’où l’utilité d’un tel livre – sauf que Palliser a réduit son sujet aux seules déviations du 2ème coup – pas de Rossolimo – ce qui réduit quelque peu ladite utilité.

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.

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Apparemment destiné à remplacer le Sicilian Kan de Emms, ce nouvel opus présente les deux défauts classiques de la série Play the : il est partiel (puisqu'il s'agit d'un répertoire à l'usage des noirs, centré sur les variantes 5.Cc3 Dc7 et 5.Fd3 Fc5) et il est partial (histoire de ne pas décourager l'amateur, il ne présente aucune victoire blanche parmi ses 40 parties complètes). A part ça, il semble sérieusement fait.

Après Everyman (<I>Starting out</I>) et Batsford (<I>The Trucmuche Revealed</I>), Gambit se lance à son tour dans l'aventure des collections de livres d'ouvertures 'grand public'. Ils ont choisi la plus basi""