Showing posts with label sicilian Paulsen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sicilian Paulsen. Show all posts

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