pgn4web sicilian taimanov tree

here you can replay the key sicilian taimanov variations White plays Be3,Qd2,Qf2 followed by f3-f4 Black plays ..Bb4, Ne5, Qc7 trying to defend against White's attack. Key annotations with White side followed by Akopian, Kasparov among others..

GM Carlsen: Three Attacking Games

In this post, I present three games from Carlsen played in 2010.
You can replay the games here :

http://theory.top10chess.com/template1.html

Game 1: Carlsen - Vallejo Pons Olympiad 2010. Sicilian Attack

Game 2: Nisipeanu-Carlsen 0-1 Kings tournament. Sicilian Dragon

Game 3: Ponomariov-Carlsen 0-1 Kings tournament. King's Indian Saemish.

To sum up: 3 sharp middle-games where Carlsen beats strong chess Grandmasters. The interface for the games display is pgn4web


For older Carlsen Games, please go to the following (interface is PgntoJS) :
http://games.top10chess.com/carlsengames.htm

Wch game

How to attack against the Sicilian Defense : follow the GMs !

White to play and win in the three positions below.

All positions come from the sicilian opening with Black ( specifically Sicilian Kan/Taimanov), and White is playing the attack quite well ( strong GM each time !)


1-Spassky-Capelan



2-Nunn-Gheorgiu



3-Anand-Polgar

Note:
The reader interested in the solutions can replay the entire games (and additional thematic sicilian games, featuring wins from the black side too) through this link:

http://theory.top10chess.com/template.html

This link is using a new reader developed by Paolo Casachi (Pgn4Web).