Saturday, November 14, 2020

Attacking with the sicilian kan

Here's an interesting set-up for Black, leading to double edged positions.
You can see Black's preparing to attack white's kingside. This is especially effective as White tends to castle kingside at least 50% of the time against the Sicilian Paulsen/Kan.

Judit Polgar was one of the first to use this set-up


But this was used more recently by J.Xiong 



and also Fabiano Caruana

and Anish Giri




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