A sideline with a main line reputation
Playing with White after 1.e4 against the Sicilian defence is not always a pleasure. If you want to play for an advantage, you have to be very familiar with systems as varied as the Najdorf variant, the Dragon, the Scheveningen, Sveshnikov and Kalashnikov and more, as you will encounter specialists of in these systems at all levels.
How much easier is it to do without 3.d4 and instead put your own stamp on the game with an early deviation. The move 3.♗b5 has established itself as a very useful weapon and it's adaptable — you can play 1.e4 c5 2.♞f3 ♞c6 3.♗b5 or 1.e4 c5 2.♘f3 d6 3.♗b5.
Thirty years ago, 3.d4 was virtually obligatory in response to the Sicilian defense, but 3.♗b5 is now also considered a fully-viable alternative essayed by the players of the highest calibre including World Champion Magnus Carlsen who used the opening several times during the last World Championship match in London in 2018.
These DVDs will show you dangerous new sidelines that are ideal for combatting the Sicilian after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6/d6 3.Bb5(+), with your author giving you the positional ideas behind less well-trodden Sicilian paths that avoid the main and winding main
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Jan Werle presents his own ideas on 3.♗b5 after either 2...♞c6 or 2...d6 on two new FritzTrainer volumes and also suggests some devious and fresh novelties.
Just how highly 3.♗b5 scores is shown by some contemporary GM games from recent tournaments:
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.0-0 4.Bxc6 dxc6 4...bxc6 5.0-0 5.d4!? 5...Bg7 6.Re1 Nh6 6...e5 6...Rb8 6...Nf6 7.c3 0-0 8.h3 f5 9.e5 4...Bg7 5.c3 5.Nc3!? 5...Nf6 6.Re1 0-0 7.d4 d5 8.e5 Ne4 9.Be3!?N 9.Bxc6!? bxc6 10.Be3 cxd4 10...Rb8 11.Qc1 11.cxd4 Qb6 12.Qc1 a5 13.Nc3 Nxc3 14.Qxc3 Bf5 15.Nd2 Rfb8 16.b3 a4 17.h3 Qa5 18.Qxa5 Rxa5 19.bxa4 Rxa4 9...Qb6 10.Bxc6 bxc6 10...Qxc6 11.Qc1 Rb8 12.b3! Qa5 13.dxc5 Rxb3 14.axb3 Qxa1 15.b4!? 15.Nd4!? Nxc5? 16.Nc2+- 15...Qa4 16.Nd4 Bxe5 17.f3 Nf6 18.Qa3 Qxa3 19.Nxa3 Re8 20.Bg5 Bxd4+ 21.cxd4 Kg7 22.b5 Bd7 23.bxc6 Bxc6 24.Bd2 a6 25.Nc2 Bb5 26.Ra1 Nd7 27.Nb4 e6 28.Bf4 Ra8 29.Ra5 Nb8 30.g4 Kf8 31.Kf2 Ke8 32.g5 Nd7 33.Bc7 f6 34.h4 Ra7 35.Bd6 Ra8 36.Ke3 Kf7 37.f4 Kg7 38.Kd2 h5 39.Kc3 Kf7 40.Nd3 Bc6 41.Kb4 Ra7 42.Ra3 Kg7 43.Nc1 Kf7 44.Nb3 Bb5 45.Na5 Ra8 46.c6 Nb6 47.c7 f5 48.Re3 Rc8 49.Nb7 Nc4 50.Re1 Bd7 51.Kc5 Ke8 52.Be5 Kf8 53.Ra1 Bb5 54.Bd6+ Ke8 55.Na5 Nd2 56.Be5 Kd7 57.Kb6 Nc4+ 58.Nxc4 dxc4 59.Kc5 Re8 60.Rd1 Ba4 61.Ra1 Bb5 62.Ra2 Kc8 63.Kd6 Kb7 64.Bf6 Kc8 65.Bd8 Kb7 66.Ke5 Rf8 67.Ra3 Kc8 68.Kxe6 Re8+ 69.Kf7 Re4 70.Kxg6 Rxf4 71.Kxh5 Rxd4 72.g6 Rd6 73.Kg5 Rd3 74.g7 c3 75.Kxf5 Rg3 76.Bg5 Bc4 77.Rxa6 c2 78.Rc6 Bb3 79.h5 1–0 - Start an analysis engine:
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| Caruana,F | 2822 | Dubov,D | 2683 | 1–0 | 2020 | B31 | 82nd Tata Steel Masters 2020 | 7.3 |
| Smeets,J | 2585 | Mamedov,R | 2659 | 1–0 | 2020 | B31 | 82nd Tata Steel Challengers 2020 | 5.5 |
| Anand,V | 2758 | Dubov,D | 2683 | ½–½ | 2020 | B31 | 82nd Tata Steel Masters 2020 | 9.3 |
| Giri,A | 2776 | Le,Q | 2713 | 1–0 | 2019 | B31 | Bucharest Superbet blitz | 16 |
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This DVD will show you dangerous new sidelines that are ideal for combatting the Sicilian after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, with your author giving you the positional ideas behind less well-trodden Sicilian paths that avoid the main and winding main lines.
Pairs well with the new Powerbook 2020 and Powerbase 2020 updates!
The greater part of the material on which the Rossolimo/Moscow Powerbook 2020 is based comes from the engine room of playchess.com: 226.000 games. This imposing amount is supplemented by some 25 000 games from Mega and from Correspondence Chess.
The Rossolimo-Moscow Powerbase 2020 is a database and contains a total of 8111 games from Mega 2020 or the Correspondence Database 2020, of which 575 are annotated.
Translation from German: Macauley Peterson
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