Discover 10 Ways To
Beat The Sicilian With
The Improved Alapin Variation
“Solve” the Sicilian Defense, and you can expect a massive leap in your rating and performance.
After all…
Wherever you may be in the rating ladder, 1…c5 is one of the most, if not the most popular and most challenging reply to your king’s pawn game.
And inside this
Short & Sweet, two of the finest opening analysts today will show you 10 ways to beat the Sicilian… with the
improved Alapin variation.
You’ve probably seen
2.c3 many times before. Maybe you’re already familiar with its plan of pushing the pawn to d4 as soon as possible.
This
Short & Sweet follows the same basic strategy. But the 10 Alapin lines you’re about to learn…
Give You A Leg Up Against The
Competition In Three Ways
1. 360-degree instruction from GMs Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Surya Ganguly. Both authors were former members of Team Anand. Plus, they also helped many of today’s chess stars break records and reach their biggest milestones yet. So count on both cutting-edge analysis and instructional value.
2. Every line ends with an edge. You’ll either gain a slight but lasting advantage, with plenty of weak pawns to pick off. Or, your dominating central presence snowballs into a winning attack. Of course, Black has many ways to try and maintain the balance. But we’ve covered that, too!
3. Trailblazing theory to catch the unwary.
“As you will see throughout the course, we will be finding new/rare ideas very early and creating our own theories.”
— Rustam Kasimdzhanov
And do they deliver!
Take this
2…Qa5 sideline, a favorite of former world #10 and
2011 World Chess Team Championship gold medalist
Sergei Movsesian. It pins the c-pawn against the king, making it impossible to recapture with the pawn after
3.d4 cxd4.
The natural 3.Nf3 is the most popular move here, and a good Sicilian player would be expecting it.
Which is why we pivot with
3.g3! which is played in only 8.3% of master games. It’s even rarer online, accounting for only 1.5% of games. So even booked-up opponents won’t be ready for it.
The plan is simple:
Fianchetto the bishop. Put the knight on e2, so the long diagonal stays open. Castle and grab more space with d2-d4.
There’s little Black can do against it. And if they overpress, quick wins like
this happens:
Of course, Black has other ways to prevent the thematic d2-d4, or even ignore it. We’ve covered some of them here…
But the full version of the course,
Tame The Sicilian: Alapin Variation, left no stone unturned to give you the advantage. It tackles just about every defensive setup Black can put up… enabling you to play the Alapin with confidence.
