Catalogue:
By writing this book, Attila Schneider, the excellent specialist, who deceased recently, has undertaken not less than to create the full cross-section of one of today´s most liked openings, the Sicilian Defence. He has produced a work converting bath the popular and the rarer variations.
Following the historical overview connected with the formation of the openings, as well as the analysis of each substantial variation, always two sample games are shown, which demonstrate the subtleties inherent in the variations, carefully pointing out the possibilities of both sides. In the first game it is White, and in the second, Black whose strategy prevails.
On account of the voluminous size, the material had to be divided in two tomes.
The present, first, tome ranges from the Sicilian Gambit to the Richter-Rauser Attack, and includes, among others, the Morra Gambit, the various systems of the variation with 2. c3 (known as Alapin Variation), as well as the Rubinstein, the Sveshnikov, the Paulsen, the Sozin, the Benkö, and the Boleslavsky Variations.
Volume Two will also appear shortly, with all of the remaining (Najdrf, Dragon, etc.) Sicilian Variations in it.
List of Content
005 Sicilian Gambit
012 The Variation with 2.g3
019 The Variation with 2.b3
025 Morra Gambit
034 The Variation with 2.f4
042 Alapin Variation (1 .e4 c5 2.c3)
042 System with 2...d6
050 System with 2...e6
055 System with 2...d5
062 System with 2...Nf6
078 The Variation 2. Nc3 Nc6 3.f4
085 Closed Variation (1 .e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3.g3)
091 Rubinstein Variation (1 .e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6)
099 Rossolimo Variation (1 .e4 c5 2. Nf3 N c6 3. Bb5)
106 La Bourdonnais Variation (1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 106 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5)
118 Sveshnikov Variation Declined
124 Sveshnikov Variation
124 System with 7... Be6
131 Systems without 8...b5
139 System with 8...b5
149 Dragon Variation, Systems without d7-d6
155 Maróczy Variation
162 Paulsen Variation, Systems without Nc3
170 Paulsen Variation, System with Nc3
175 Neo-Paulsen Variation
181 Deviations after 2...d6
188 Moscow Vanation (1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3.Bb5)
198 Chekhover Variation (1 .e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4)
205 Anti-Sozin Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be3)
210 Sozin Variation (6.Bc4)
214 Benko Variation (6.Bc4 Qb6)
221 Boleslavsky Variation (6.Be2 e5)
227 Richter-Rauzer Attack (6.Bg5)
234 Index of Sample Games | 