The Scheveningen is a dynamic and flexible variation of Black's most popular defence to 1 e4, the Sicilian. It was a firm favourite of the chess legend Garry Kasparov, who utilized it with so much success in his world championship matches against Anatoly Karpov that his rival was forced to give up playing 1 e4!. Black's play in the Scheveningen is based around a solid and resilient pawn structure, a well-defended king and guaranteed counterplay against every White set-up.

In Starting Out: Sicilian Scheveningen, Craig Pritchett takes a fresh look at this famous opening. In particular he focuses deeply on the 'modern Scheveningen' approach for Black, whilst also providing Black players with all they need to know against White's alternatives. The moves and ideas are introduced and care is taken to explain the reasoning behind them - something that is often neglected or taken for granted. As with previous works in the popular Everyman Chess Starting Out series, the reader is helped throughout with a plethora of notes, tips and warnings highlighting the vital characteristics of the Sicilian Scheveningen and of opening play in general.

• An easy-to-use guide on an important opening
• Written by a renowned Scheveningen expert
• Ideal for the improving player

Content:
004 Bibliography and Acknowledgements

005 Introduction

6 Be2 and the Modern Scheveningen

009 1 The Main Line with 9...Bd7

043 2 The Main Line without 9...Bd7

Aggressive White Set-ups

100 3 Set-ups with Be3 and 0-0-0

124 4 The Keres Attack

154 5 6 f4 and the Sozin, 6 Bc4

Other Set-ups

175 6 6 g3 and Rare 6th Moves

186 Index of Variations

191 Index of Complete Games