Books (or other resources) for studying the Maroczy Bind (for White)?

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Samurai-X

Most of the books and DVDs seem to look at the Bind from Black's perspective.

ThrillerFan

Chesspublishing.com - Section 4 (Objective)

Steamrolling the Sicilian (White)

There's an old Batsford book from 1998 that's Green on the Accelerated Dragon - Half of it is Maroczy Bind (Objective)

 

There is no book that is going to completely and exclusively cover the Maroczy Bind because the Maroczy Bind is not an Opening.  It's a variation/pawn structure that is played in a number of openings, including:

1) Accelerated Dragon (probably the most common)

2) Kan Sicilian

3) Prins Variation (2...d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3)

4) Sniper (1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c4 c5 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Nxd4)

5) Taimanov Sicilian (but with a WN on a3)

6) It can occur occasionally in the English Hedgehog

 

Many confuse the Maroczy Bind with the Botvinnik Structure.  There is no pawn on d3 in the Maroczy Bind!

LogoCzar
ThrillerFan wrote:

Chesspublishing.com - Section 4 (Objective)

Steamrolling the Sicilian (White)

There's an old Batsford book from 1998 that's Green on the Accelerated Dragon - Half of it is Maroczy Bind (Objective)

 

There is no book that is going to completely and exclusively cover the Maroczy Bind because the Maroczy Bind is not an Opening.  It's a variation/pawn structure that is played in a number of openings, including:

1) Accelerated Dragon (probably the most common)

2) Kan Sicilian

3) Prins Variation (2...d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3)

4) Sniper (1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c4 c5 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Nxd4)

5) Taimanov Sicilian (but with a WN on a3)

6) It can occur occasionally in the English Hedgehog

 

Many confuse the Maroczy Bind with the Botvinnik Structure.  There is no pawn on d3 in the Maroczy Bind!

Actually, I want to learn this too.

The one from the dragon. 

Where could I learn this as white?

LogoCzar
Samurai-X wrote:

Most of the books and DVDs seem to look at the Bind from Black's perspective.

You could always try the most dangerous trys the books/dvd's spend all of their time trying to counter, I think it is concept based.

Nelly_Gan

I first learned about Maroczy bind with Silman's english books.

Now i enjoy playing it with white against sicilians that allow it.

Not much of a system that you need to memorize lot of theory moves, look for a book that deals with accelerated dragon from whote side ?

ThrillerFan

You will not find a book that deals exclusively with the White Side of the Maroczy Bind.

There are repertoire books for White on 1.e4 in general - no idea which ones recommend the Maroczy Bind - I don't read crappy "canned" repertoire books.  They are sheer garbage.

There are repertoire books for Black on the Accelerated Dragon.

Then there are "objective" resources, like Chesspublishing.com, or in the case of the Accelerated Dragon, I know of two books from the late 90s, one by Silman and Donaldson, the other a Green cover book by Batsford.

Then you have that Steamrolling the Sicilian, where one chapter out of the entire book is the Accelerated Dragon Maroczy Bind by Transposition.

 

Best way to learn an opening is from an objective view.  Learning from an unbiased, objective view will give you the most honest assessment of each position.  Repertoire books will try to skew the view in favor of whichever side they are writing for.  I've even seen positions that were identical in 2 books written by the same author, one for White and one for Black, where in his book for White, he'll say it's a small advantage for White because of blah, and in his other book, written for Black, he'll proceed to say it's equal.

An example of this is two books by Gambit Publishing by the same author, one dealing with the London System for White, the other dealing with the Stonewall Dutch for Black.  Well, both feature the position after 1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 e6, and they are assessed differently!

 

Subscribe to Section 3 of ChessPublishing.com (Dragons, which includes the Accelerated).  It's your best bet, and yes, it will take work.  This is no 2-minute drill by any stretch.

Samurai-X

"Pawn Structure Chess" by Andrew Soltis has some coverage of the Maroczy Bind. Obviously the big/only focus is on the pawn structure aspects of the bind. I just started looking at it and it seems okay, but almost certainly not the complete guide on it. 

KonradusKonradi
Samurai-X napisał:

"Pawn Structure Chess" by Andrew Soltis has some coverage of the Maroczy Bind. Obviously the big/only focus is on the pawn structure aspects of the bind. I just started looking at it and it seems okay, but almost certainly not the complete guide on it. 

In which part of the book I can find it?

OldPatzerMike

GM Flores covers the Maroczy in chapter 11 of "Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide". Soltis covers it in a section of chapter 3 on the Open Sicilian.

KonradusKonradi
OldPatzerMike napisał:

GM Flores covers the Maroczy in chapter 11 of "Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide". Soltis covers it in a section of chapter 3 on the Open Sicilian.

Thank you very much!

SeniorPatzer

"Subscribe to Section 3 of ChessPublishing.com (Dragons, which includes the Accelerated).  It's your best bet, and yes, it will take work.  This is no 2-minute drill by any stretch."

 

Hmmmm.  Not an often mentioned resource.

SmyslovFan

I certainly endorse ChessPublishing.com!

But there are other sources for learning the Maroczy Bind. Polugaevsky has some interesting material on the Maroczy Bind in The Sicilian Labyrinth volume 2. You can find opening-specific references to the Maroczy Bind in several books, including Taimanov's books on the Sicilian. John Watson also covers it in his discussion of the Hedgehog in Chess Strategy in Action. He also discusses it in the sections on the King's Indian Exchange in Mastering the Chess Openings vol 2. Nunn also covers the Exchange KID pawn structure in New Classical King's Indian.

 

An absolutely essential piece of analysis is from My Sixty Memorable Games. Take a look at Fischer's game against Lombardy, game #25, "When the Maroczy didn't bind". Many of these resources are available either at your local library,  online, or in youtube video form. 

 

RussBell

More than half of the following book is focused on Maroczy Bind structures....

Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon: Fundamental Coverage Of A Dynamic Sicilian by Andrew Dr Greet...

https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-Accelerated-Fundamental-Coverage/dp/1857445309/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534825952&sr=8-2&keywords=andrew+greet

also the DVD....

Playing the Maroczy Bind For White - Chess Lecture - Volume 63 Chess DVD by ChessLecture.com..

https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Maroczy-Bind-White-Lecture/dp/B00HXXNZPE