By Jeremy Silman
This ebook takes the scholar on a trip via his personal brain and returns him to the chess board with a wealth of new-found wisdom and the promise of an important achieve in energy. so much amateurs own inaccurate pondering methods that stay with them all through their chess lives. those flaws of their psychological armour bring about stinging defeats and painful reversals. Books can be purchased and studied, classes might be taken -- yet in any case, those elusive difficulties continually turn out to be tremendous tricky to remove. looking an answer to this hindrance, the writer wrote down the innovations of his scholars whereas they performed real video games, analysed them, and catalogued the most typical misconceptions that arose. This moment variation vastly expands at the info inside the renowned first variation.
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11 ... e5 is worse 53 Dismantling the Sicilian - Section II than in the game due to 15 ... 1he5 Vi'aSoo) 1 S... tt:'ld5, although the pawn isn't any help on f3. ad1 a4 This weakens the pawn and the b4-square. But after 12 ... ~c6!? e5! g. 13 ... ::. ~c4~c6 13 ... b3 (14 ... ~a5?! f4! b4! still poses some problems for Black. ~c6 with some advantage for White, who has more centralized pieces and a more compact structure, Carlsson-Robson, Reykjavik 2008. ::. l:ra5!? 14 ... ::. Now the knight has another strong point on b4.
18... 0-0 1id7! 19 ... e5? ti:Jf5+-; 19 ... +-. l::rd8?? 20 ... +; 20 ... tLlcl1ig4+. h3?? ~f2! a4 (21.. tLlxa5! 'iff2±. 21 ... a4 2 1... iia4+. +. 1ixd4! d2! tb3 a5 Almost as popular as the main line 8 ... d6. Though bS is seriously weakened, some tactical details set the basis for Black's counterplay. a4 are interesting, but I think that the natural line starting with 9. 0-0 is still the best option for White to get quite a safe edge. For 8 ... 06. 0-0! This is my recommendation. It is true that now White definitely forgoes his most frequent plan, based on 0-0-0, but the radical character of 9 ...
Argaya Urdaniz-Zamarbide Ibarrea, Pamplona 2001, and White has the initiative and the better structure. This is the most common move in this position. In the event of 8 ... 0-0, but we won't go deeply into this interesting sacrifice, since it is also possible to transpose to the variation we recommend against 8 ... fi'f3). ~f4!? 'iVf3 is also a very promising line, but I have chosen the text due to its simplicity. 9 ... fi'a5 9 .. '~'d2! 'fie? +-. ~xb5++-. 39 Dismantling the Sicilian - Section II White develops and defends the pawn indirectly.