Playing 1.e4 – Sicilian Main Lines

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Playing 1.e4 – Sicilian Main Lines

Playing 1.e4 – Sicilian Main Lines in this, the last of three volumes on 1.e4, GM John Shaw completes

his state-of-the-art White repertoire by tackling the biggest challenge of all: the main lines of the Sicilian Defence.

Just like the other two books in the series, this book is based upon a foundation of tried and tested

main lines, boosted by a number of innovative suggestions that will cause no end of trouble to your opponents.

Playing 1.e4 – Sicilian Main Lines

Including the Dragon, Taimanov, Sveshnikov and concluding with the nefarious Najdorf, this book

provides everything you need to face all the major Sicilian systems with confidence.

Review of the author’s previous work: «A fantastic publication that is clearly the result of a

tremendous amount of work by Shaw, for which he deserves immense credit.»GM David Smerdon,

ChessVibes, reviewing The King’s Gambit

John Shaw is a grandmaster and three-time Scottish Champion.

“I recommend, for most ordinary players who lack extraordinary powers, to instead base their White

repertoire around the John Shaw series. His lines are more likely to highlight manoeuvres and

positional plans plus the inherent value of the pieces and structure.

Sicilian Main Lines

It helps us mere mortals when there is more margin for the occasional imprecision. As for the fact

that the three volumes together add up to over 1400 pages, well I suppose that if something is worth

doing, it’s worth doing well! Shawly!?”

 

“I am highly recommending this series – I had used so many of these lines and have gotten good

positions in virtually all the time where I have tested the theory coverage from these books. Shaw’s

writing style is fun to read, with flecks of dry humour littered throughout the book… these books have

attained ‘must-have’ status for all 1.e4 players.”

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