Download or read book Sicilian Defence Puzzles written by Tim Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 200 puzzles in the Sicilian Defence teach you to find checkmates. You can win quickly after 1.e4 c5. This book is your tool to help you find checkmates early in the game. How are the puzzles easy? Because every move is a check. Even the mates in two begin with a check. How are they puzzles? Because there is more than one possible check.Here is the secret. Immediately look for the enemy king. Find all the ways you can check him. Choose the one that does not let him get away. Checkmate. You can do it! Tim Sawyer gives you 50 mates in one and 50 mates in two with each color. Why play to checkmate early? If you win in the opening, you eliminate all possible later dangers.There are three levels of skill you can develop. First, you learn what checkmates can occur in the opening. Second, you learn to solve them correctly. Third, you learn them so well that you cannot miss them. Your opponent's king cannot move when it is your move. He is stuck on one square for the moment. All you have to do is check the king immediately so that he cannot escape. Puzzles 1 to 100 are all White to move. White starts at the bottom of those diagrams. Puzzles 101 to 200 are all Black to move. Black starts at the bottom of those diagrams. Repeated practice makes you a winner. Go forth and win!
Download or read book Sicilian Dragon written by Bill Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is more fruitful to study the tactics of an opening you might encounter as White or Black than to study the knight fork, pin or skewer, one tactic at a time. When the type of tactic is provided with the puzzle, it is already half solved. Study the more common tactics found within an opening you face and you will come away with an understanding of the real dynamics of the opening and pick up tactics you can already use. The Dragon is a rich opening with sacrifices, counter-sacrifices and 'do or die' pawn storms - lots of tactics you would see nowhere else. What's more, nearly half of its games are decided in the first 30 moves, so if one falls behind in this opening, there is usually a swift conclusion. Here are nearly 550 chess puzzles to illuminate the Dragon.
Download or read book The Sicilian Pelikan written by Evgenny Sveshnikov and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sicilian Scheveningen B80 89 written by Bill Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chess opening is named for the Dutch seaside resort when it was played there by more than half the competitors in the 1923 masters tournament. World Champions have played it hundreds of times since. It is a good tactical opening to study for a multitude of lessons in passive-aggressive play. Typically, Black declines to engage the center and develops defensively while White fills out the center and hopes to capitalize on a wide array of sacrificial ploys or other tactics to break open Black's defense. There's the double knight sacrifice on b5, taking the e6 pawn for the price of a knight or sacrificing the knight on f5 to place the other knight on d5. Black's kingside position is often compromised with a rook sac on g7 or h7 (or both). This is a collection of 641 chess puzzles that capture the dynamics of play in a very wild and popular opening.
Download or read book The Sicilian Labyrinth written by Lev Abramovič Polugaevskij and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sicilian Najdorf B90 B99 written by Bill Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of more than 600 chess puzzles taken from short games beginning with the Najdorf opening. They were chosen to illustrate typical attacks, combinations and sacrifices found in this popular opening. This book aims to give the reader an understanding of the opening from the tactical point of view.
Download or read book My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White written by Vincent Moret and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every chess player needs to decide which openings he is going to play. But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs. Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. Trying to win in 20 moves, copying what's in fashion among top-GM's or memorizing variations are a waste of time. Most likely you will never play your ‘preparation' or end up by jumping from one opening to the other. Experienced French chess trainer Vincent Moret provides a complete, ready-to-go chess opening repertoire for White with a sound set of lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require memorization and are easy to digest for beginning players and other amateurs. In this complete and user-friendly guide, Moret has selected relatively aggressive variations that will enhance your tactical vision. To show the typical plans and demonstrate underlying ideas and key motifs, Moret not only selected games of Grandmasters. For instructional purposes, he also uses games of young players to highlight the errors they tend to make.
Download or read book The Sicilian written by John Emms and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an updated and largely expanded edition of the highly acclaimed Starting Out: The Sicilian. John Emms goes back to basics, studying the fundamental principles of the Sicilian and its many variations.
Download or read book The Sicilian for the Tournament Player written by Ėduard Efimovich Gufelʹd and published by B.T. Batsford. This book was released on 1989 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keep it Simple 1 e4 written by Christof Sielecki Christof Sielecki and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is this repertoire called simple? For the simple reason that the variations are straightforward, easy to remember and require little or no maintenance. International Master Christof Sielecki has created a reliable set of lines for chess players of almost all levels. The major objective is to dominate Black in the opening, by simple means. You don’t need to sacrifice anything or memorize long tactical lines. Unless Black plays something stupid, when tactics are the simplest punishment. Sielecki developed this repertoire working with students who were looking for something that was easy to understand and to learn. Most of the lines he selected are occasionally played by grandmasters, but on the whole they lie outside the mainstream of opening theory. That means that there is hardly any need to monitor theoretical developments. Sielecki always clearly explains the plans and counterplans and keeps you focussed on what the position requires. Ambitious players rated 1500 or higher will get great value out of studying this extremely accessible book.
Download or read book How to Beat the Sicilian Defence written by Gawain Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sicilian Defence is by far the most popular chess opening. If you play 1 e4 as White, on average you are likely to meet the Sicilian in virtually every other game! You need to be prepared to face the Sicilian at all times, and a ready-to-use repertoire against it is an indispensible weapon. In this book, Gawain Jones confronts the challenge of meeting the Sicilian head on. He has constructed a comprehensive Anti-Sicilian repertoire for White, which is based on lines he has successfully employed at grandmaster level. These are sound, reliable options for White, but don't be fooled - they also contain more than a drop of poison. Variations covered include the popular King's Indian Attack, various Bb5 systems and weapons against Black's offbeat tries. A Grandmaster's repertoire against the Sicilian Packed with new ideas and critical analysis Highlights key tactical and positional ideas
Download or read book Steamrolling the Sicilian written by Sergey Kasparov and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. ,
Download or read book Sicilian Defense written by Gennadi Timoshchenko and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Variation by Any Other Name... One of the most popular – and intriguing – variations of the Sicilian Defense is the so-called Chelyabinsk Variation. In the West, it is known as the Sveshnikov Variation, while older opening monographs may refer to it as the Lasker-Pelikan Variation. It is called the Chelyabinsk Variation in Russia. It is the variation that arises after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5. Once dismissed by theoreticians as “anti-positional,” it is now common at all levels. In this monumental work, grandmaster Gennadi Timoshchenko, one of the creative founders of the entire line, puts the entire variation into both a personal and historical perspective and then examines the theory and practice of this line in great detail. From the foreword by Garry Kasparov: “Timoshchenko’s book on the Chelyabinsk Variation is both very interesting and necessary. Behind it lies an enormous amount of work, as will become evident as you read and especially play through the author’s analysis. Readers will be able to get a definitive insight into the genesis of the Chelyabinsk Variation...In its 200 chapters, more or less every important branch of the Chelyabinsk Variation is examined. It is also unusual as it contains a huge amount of novelties at various levels of importance.” Extraordinary analytical depth, cross-checked by strong engines, is complemented by historical and biographical perspectives to make this a truly unique opening manual. Regardless of what name you give it, Sicilian Defense: The Chelyabinsk Variation will provide you with a powerful weapon against 1.e4.
Download or read book B70 Sicilian Dragon written by Bill Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B70 Sicilian Dragon begins with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 without 6.f4 or 6.Be3. Here is a collection of 84 chess puzzles from masters' short games. They present a compilation of common tactics that you will see in the first 22 moves of the Dragon. The diagram presents the critical point in the game with the winning side at the bottom of the board and the reader is invited to discover the deciding tactic. The remainder of the game with variations is found at the end of the pamphlet.
Download or read book King s Indian Defense E60 99 written by Bill Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King's Indian Defense is a hypermodern opening, where Black deliberately allows Whitecontrol of the center with his pawns, with the view to later challenge it with the moves ...e5 or ...c5. With White committed to the center thrust, Black can create an equalizing wing expansion on either side, challenging White's commitment. Hence, there are huge areas for both sides to develop their pieces and tactics. The resulting tactics are fairly unique to the opening. Until the mid-1930s the theory behind this opening was considered suspect but it has attracted much attention and over time, has been adopted by many World Champions including Botvinnik, Tal, Fischer and Kasparov. It is played as Black by nearly all of the top 10 FIDE rated players today.This volume is indexed by ECO classification so that the reader can focus on his or her area of expertise. Each of these sections contains their own pitfalls and traps. It is more fruitful to study the tactics of an opening you might encounter as White or Black than to study the knight fork, pin or skewer, one tactic at a time. When the type of tactic is provided with the puzzle, it is already half solved. Study the more common tactics found within an opening you face and you will come away with an understanding of the real dynamics of the opening and pick up tactics you can already use.
Download or read book Slay the Sicilian written by Timothy Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents a repertoire for White against the most popular opening in chess – the Sicilian Defence. Taylor’s repertoire is based first and foremost on the Open Sicilian, which is regarded as White’s most ambitious and challenging response to the Sicilian. He focuses on the classical Be2 lines, which were popularized by the success of former World Champion and chess legend Anatoly Karpov. These lines are easy to learn and generally lead to solid positional play, but with a drop of poison. Taylor covers what to do against all the Sicilian variations. He examines the most important games, studies in depth the main plans and tactics for both sides, and highlights the key practical issues. Read this book and you will be ready to slay the Sicilian! *Presents a Sicilian repertoire for White *Covers all the main variations *Ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players
Download or read book Play the Sicilian Kan written by Johan Hellsten and published by Gloucester Publishers Plc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johan Hellsten reveals his Kan secrets, showing how Black can play this opening with confidence and providing the reader with a dependable repertoire.
