Want a Short & Sweet overview of what the world champion has in his Sicilian repertoire? Here is everything you need to get you started.Short and Sweet: The Magnus Sicilian is the bitesize version of IM Christof Sielecki's full 1...c5 Magnus Carlsen training course and a complete mini-repertoire on its own.
AND it comes with nearly 2 hours of free video-sync instruction.
Want the full 20+ hours FULL course on the Magnus Sicilian? Check out Fight Like Magnus
While Fight Like Carlsen is our "Magnus opus", this can be considered our "Magnus minore"
IM Sielecki, aka ChessExplained, presents 25 lines based on the Sveshnikov to get you up and running against 1.e4.
Just 25 lines to learn before you're playing the Sicilian!
All the recommendations here are variations favored by the champ himself and all have been played by him in tournament play. They include anti-Sicilian line and all White's main responses.
Carlsen has been in imperious form in the Sicilian and, at the time of publication, hasn't lost a single game in it since 2011 when playing classical chess.
But while he dominates with the Sicilian at the elite level, this course teaches the basics of 1...c5 for all levels. It is:
🏆 easy to learn;
🏆 easy to understand;
🏆 gives Black lots of attacking chances;
🏆 is what the world champion plays!
If you're new to the Sicilian, what could be better?
Short & Sweet is our exclusive series of boiled down starter repertoires. It brings you the core lines to get you started on a new opening. Check it out now.
