The Richter Rauzer Reborn, The Kozul Variation

Descripción

Four years have passed since the first edition of our Richter-Rauzer Reborn book and if we look at the

recent past, we can see that this variation of the Sicilian has been gaining more and more popularity and

is very often seen in tournament practice. The fact that this opening has become part of a standard

repertoire against 1.e4 for many top players such as Rapport, Dubov, Li Chao, Korobov, Gupta, Vovk etc .

speaks for itself about the quality and the fascination of the variation and also about the many

possibilities it offers. It’s hard to pinpoint the real reasons for this popularity, but it’s likely that the

answer lies in the complexity of the positions that arise on the board and the large number of new ideas,

which we will talk about in this book.

 

Exactly that was a motive and an additional impulse for GM Alojzije Jankovic and myself to write this

new material on the Richter-Rauzer as an update to our first book. The basic idea of the book is to give

an overview of theoretical novelties and new ideas in the positions we have already dealt with, and also to

give you some new lines and suggestions that may be particularly interesting to players who are in the

process of creating a repertoire for Black. In particular, I would like to point out the fact that our

variation could be seen in games of the world’s best players such as Fabiano Caruana and the World

Champion himself, Magnus Carlsen, which makes us proud. It is a great recommendation and boost for

this opening so in the book we have especially considered the games of the World Champion Carlsen and

his 2018 challenger, Caruana.

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