Sicilian Kan repertoire

 interesting lines for Black

Sicilian Kan: quick win with the Black pieces at GM level

 Sicilian Kan : Quick wins with Black.

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Artemiev,Andreikin,Firouzja,Svidler games

Quick wins in the sicilian with Black

Alireza Firouzja bullet win in Taimanov variation Aug 26 2020 Katara

 Alireza Firouzja shows us the black side of a tricky Taimanov line.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Ndb5

6.. Qb8 7. Be3 a6 8. Bb6 !?
Black has to take it and defend.

8..axb5 9. Nxb5
-First idea 9...Ra5 10.Nc7+ Ke7 11.Qf3! Re5 12.Qa3+ d6 13.0–0–0 f6 14.Qa4. 
The queen in  this variation goes to f3 and then a3 with pressure on a3-f8 diagonal.
-The second idea is 9..Bb4+ followed by Ba5 to indirectly cover c7.
lets look at this line.
9.. Bb4+ 10. c3 Ba5 11. Nc7+

11..Qxc7 12. Bxc7 Bxc7 13. g3 Nf6 14. Bg2 O-O 
How to continue here ? Lets see Alireza Firouzja in Katara Event Aug 26 2020 win easily.

Sicilian Taimanov repertoire for Black against Be3,Qd2,0-0-0,g4 played by White (B48)

http://view.chessbase.com/cbreader/2018/7/12/Game26963484.html

Typical position Taimanov:
White played Be3,Qd2,f3,0-0-0
Black played Qc7,Ne5,b5 leaving king in the center.

Game can become quite sharp

B48 typical position

Full repertoire analyzed  and can be replayed in Chessbase interface  (B48 opening)

http://view.chessbase.com/cbreader/2018/7/12/Game26963484.html

Sicilian Taimanov Theory against 6 Be3 7 Qd2 attack

Sicilian Taimanov Theory against 6 Be3 7 Qd2 attack based on Akopian-Cramling

Key position

Analysis in pgn here

http://www.viewchess.com/cbreader/2018/1/7/Game83885687.html

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..

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).