There’s a fight that
no 1.e4 player can dodge: the Sicilian.
If you think you can shy away from its sharp mainlines, we’re sorry to break it to you; sidelinish approaches like Alapin or Closed Sicilian won’t cut it. You’ll still end up in the difficult middlegame you wanted to avoid, with nothing to show for Black’s dynamic potential.
Beating the Sicilian is a case of fighting fire with fire
So there’s no better way to meet it than with the Open Variation.
After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 & 3.d4, White secures a space advantage and quick development to counter Black’s sharp intentions. That’s how Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, and every great Champion faced the Sicilian.
And that’s how you should play too!
There’s plenty of chess to learn from the confrontation for the center. So, in this Short & Sweet course,
another Champion will teach you all you need to know about it to grow your chess.
GM Ivan Saric is the 2008 Under-18 Champion, the 2018 European Champion, and the Croatian #1 for almost a decade and a half now. Saric is known for his uncompromising attacking style and this free course is only nuggets from his chess philosophy.
Plus, you will walk away with a comprehensive mini-repertoire against
EVERY line in the Sicilian:
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Rauzer: GM Saric will show you how to get all your pawns moving in the Rauzer attack while you stop all of Black’s threats.
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Najdorf: Be ambitious with the English attack (6.f3) and make Black dizzy with your threats of positional suffocation and an all-out kingside attack.
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Dragon: You will see how delicate moves can add much venom to your vicious kingside attack in the Yugoslav Variation.
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Sveshnikov: Paralyze Black’s counterplay with the fashionable 7.Nd5 and learn how the feint of a queenside clamp can turn into a crushing mating attack.
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Taimanov: stop Black’s hopes for messing with your structure with the prophylactic 7.a3 and prepare your attack without delays
But in just 22 trainable lines and 1 hour of video instruction, GM Saric will also give you coverage of the O’Kelly Variation, the Nimzowitch Sicilian, the Accelerated and Hyperaccelerated Dragon, Four Knights Sicilian, the Grivas, the Kalashnikov, Pin Variation, and the Dragodorf.
If you enjoy this Short & Sweet course, check out The Open Sicilian: A Champion’s Guide, where GM Saric expands this repertoire into 800 trainable lines to bulldoze the Sicilian.
