Grandmaster Repertoire 6: The Sicilian Defence by Lubomir Ftacnik is my recommendation. The author has played and annotated many Sicilian games for Chessbase and Chess Informant.
Anyone know any great books on the Sicilian?
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howardmintyfresh wrote:
hey so i need to get a fantastic book on the sicilian. I rencently bought silmans book that he wrote but every single variation in there uses 1. e4 c5 2. nf3 nc6, which is completely out of date. any reccomendations would be fantastic
Gosh, I thought we cleared up that misconception in your other post. Nice to know anything we respond with will be completely irrelevant to you. Good luck finding stuff out from other suckers.
Starting out sicilian sveshnikov is an excellent book if youre new to the sicilian.
For more experienced players, Sveshnikov realoaded is also excellent.
howardmintyfresh wrote:
hey so i need to get a fantastic book on the sicilian. I rencently bought silmans book that he wrote but every single variation in there uses 1. e4 c5 2. nf3 nc6, which is completely out of date. any reccomendations would be fantastic
How is 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 out of date?? At the top level it seems to be played much more frequently d6.
Look at the Anand Gelfand match, 4 games with 2...Nc6 and only one game with 2...d6. Look at other top level games (candidates, tal memorial, london classic, tata steel etc) and I think that Nc6 will be played more often than d6 overall.
thanks guys
shepi13 wrote:
howardmintyfresh wrote:
hey so i need to get a fantastic book on the sicilian. I rencently bought silmans book that he wrote but every single variation in there uses 1. e4 c5 2. nf3 nc6, which is completely out of date. any reccomendations would be fantastic
How is 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 out of date?? At the top level it seems to be played much more frequently d6.
Look at the Anand Gelfand match, 4 games with 2...Nc6 and only one game with 2...d6. Look at other top level games (candidates, tal memorial, london classic, tata steel etc) and I think that Nc6 will be played more often than d6 overall.
k i will thanks. but i this book i was talking about only taks about 2... nc6 and i would like to get a book covering all lines of the defense.
"Starting Out: The Sicilian" covers all lines, and it got good reviews.
If you're looking for a great book, I'd recommend Polugaevsky's The Sicilian Labyrinth, but if you think a move like 2...Nc6 can possibly get out of date then it's way way over your head.
I suspect van der Sterren's FCO would be better for you than a book on the Sicilian, it focuses on lots of text explanation of all openings.
Yeah......Play the French
Lots of good referrals here xD
i shouldn't have said it was out of date... i should have said it isnt played as frequently. i probably just shouldn't have said anything... lol thanks for the referrals everyone.
Jun 28, 2013
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howardmintyfresh Don't take this too personally but you should be concentrating on basic opening, middlegame and endgame principles instead of working on learning something as complex as the SD. To me it's like you're all set to study trigonometry without having passed geometry and algebra first. The famous hypermodern GM Richard Reti advises beginners to play open games exclusively and by open he means 1.e4 e5 as Black and White whenever possible. Single KP Openings are classified as "semi-open" and he discourages anyone who isn't throughly familar with open games first to avoid them as much as possible.
I think these lists would be more helpful for you than any books on specific openings which aren't really useful until you're rated 1700 at least
http://www.chess.com/blog/NimzoRoy/beginner-chess-book-recommendations
http://www.chess.com/blog/NimzoRoy/endgame-books
NimzoRoy wrote:
howardmintyfresh Don't take this too personally but you should be concentrating on basic opening, middlegame and endgame principles instead of working on learning something as complex as the SD. To me it's like you're all set to study trigonometry without having passed geometry and algebra first. The famous hypermodern GM Richard Reti advises beginners to play open games exclusively and by open he means 1.e4 e5 as Black and White whenever possible. Single KP Openings are classified as "semi-open" and he discourages anyone who isn't throughly familar with open games first to avoid them as much as possible.
I think these lists would be more helpful for you than any books on specific openings which aren't really useful until you're rated 1700 at least
http://www.chess.com/blog/NimzoRoy/beginner-chess-book-recommendations
Thank you i will take your advice. :)
hey so i need to get a fantastic book on the sicilian. I rencently bought silmans book that he wrote but every single variation in there uses 1. e4 c5 2. nf3 nc6, which is completely out of date. any reccomendations would be fantastic