Books : Fighting the Anti-Sicilians: Combating 2 c3, the Closed, Bb5 lines, the Morra Gambit and other tricky ideas (Everyman Chess)

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Author name: Richard Palliser

: Fighting the Anti-Sicilians: Combating 2 c3, the Closed, Bb5 lines, the Morra Gambit and other tricky ideas (Everyman Chess)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN num: 9781857445206
ISBN number: 1857445201
Label: Everyman Chess
Manufacturer: Everyman Chess
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: August 01, 2007
Publishing house: Everyman Chess
Sale Popularity Level: 183465
Studio: Everyman Chess



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The Sicilian Defence is by far Black’s most popular answer to 1 e4 at all levels of chess. The reason is easy to understand: from the very very first move Black unbalances the position and can play for a win without needing to take unjustified risks. This is particularly the case with the Open Sicilians, where Black can take comfort in the fact that his superior pawn structure ensures control of the centre and excellent long term chances.

Faced this with type of problem, along with the fact that many Open Sicilians carry with them a massive build-up of opening theory, it’s unsurprising that many White players prefer to avoid the Open Sicilian altogether, preferring one of the many ‘Anti-Sicilians’ lines on offer.





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Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Hard Work is obvious!
Richard Palliser has done a remarkable job with this book. He goes into great detail & analysis of how to attack & defend the anti sicilians.

This is by far one of the best chess books I have ever bought. I had great difficulty in analysing the anti sicilians until I got my hands on this book! In particular the c3 Sicilian & the Morra Gambit!

Well done Richard Palliser for a detailed & Analytical Chess Book! I t is rather obvious that you put lots of hard work into this book.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Thorough and Trustworthy...Would have liked a bit more prose.
IM Richard Palliser is an excellent author, arguably the best at Everyman Chess. His works are always thorough and his recommendations always solid.

The author includes some explanatory material and gives justification for the lines that he recommends, but this book is more on the "database dump" side of the opening book spectrum. I must admit to being a little disappointed by this, having loved his Play 1.d4!, which I think is a repertoire masterpiece--if not for the lines themselves then for the mix of breadth, depth, and prose.

It could be said, however, that the subject is the Sicilian Defense, and any serious book with this topic must be very concrete. While that is true, I would have liked more practical (middlegame!) advice in the vein of Play 1.d4 or especially in the vein of The Sharpest Sicilian. It is this practical middlegame advice that, to me, places the latter work on a very short list of the greatest opening works ever.

Still, I think this is the best book on the Anti-Sicilians currently available. Recommended. Note well that this book basically deals with White second moves and, as Mr. Snow pointed out in his review, does not cover 3.Bb5(+) (the Moscow/Rossolimo Variations), for example, or Yudasin's favorite 3.Bc4. He does cover Zvjagintsev's 2.Na3!?, though with such a move there is much more scope to just "play chess" than in most other lines.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Correction
This isn't a review actually, but a correction to the Amazon listing of this book. The book doesn't cover Bb5 systems! Palliser has written that excluding them was a tough decision but was done for space considerations (if memory serves me correctly that is, check out chesspublishing.com's forum section to read exactly what he said). One can get a very good book by Palliser on the Bb5 systems here at Amazon. That said, this is another excellent Palliser book. [...]


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - At Last, A Practical, Balanced Book
In my overly-large collection of chess books, I have a number of titles about "Beating the Sicilian" and a number more about "Beating the Anti-Sicilians." These books tend to promise, in hyperbolic fashion, a near-certain strategy for whichever side they are support. Yet even a lowly class player such as I has trouble understanding how both sides can have a legitimate no-fail strategy for victory!

That's why I was happy to acquire and read through Richard Palliser's new book. Though it is written from the standpoint of the Black player and attempts to provide a solid repertoire for that side, it is, gladly and surprisingly, very well balanced, and represents fairly the ideas and aspirations of both White and Black, presenting chess as a struggle of ideas in which the outcome is anything but certain.

Black reactions to the 2.c3 system (once called the Alapin) are covered in a great deal of detail. The same is true for the 2.Nc3 "closed" Sicilian. There are plenty of variant moves considered along with games and illustrations. There is a bit less coverage of the Grand Prix Attack; both the 2.Nc3 3.f4 and 2.f4 variants are treated, with some excellent ideas in the latter for playing the Black side of the Tal Gambit (the author analyzes the less frequently played but very interesting Nbd7 reply to Bb5+; Bd7 is the usual reply). There is some coverage (not as much as I could have wished, but then there are other specialty books on Sicilian gambits available) of the Morra Gambit and the Wing Gambit, as well as a few pages devoted to the really offbeat stuff.

This is clearly the best book of its type in terms of coverage, balance, readability, and utility. IM Palliser has done a really fine job, and the book is an easy one to recommend to Sicilian fans.


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