Sicilian Kan 5Bd3 lines, opening lab

Quick wins in the sicilian with Black

Game of the day (Nunn-Georghiu 1983)

Classic Attacking game against Sicilian Defense


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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).

Attacking against the Sicilian Scheveningen

Here are tactical themes in a a set-up against the sicilian Scheveningen.
The key position (Tabiya) is as follows with White to move :

The key move is Qe1, signaling the intention Qg3 attacking on the king side. White will try to play Bd3,Bd4, and then e4-e5 or f4-f5 in conjonction with Qg3. The Tabiya above is reached after the following sequence:

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 Qc7 7.Be3 Nf6 8.O-O Be7 9.f4 d6 10.Qe1 O-O

Before solving positions issued from this opening in a following post, let's go through three thematic games played from the tabiya (Bacrot-Lautier 2005, David-Plaskett 2000, Anand-Ivanchuk 2008)

Here's the link: http://games.top10chess.com/sicilianQe1var.htm

Sicilian Attacks with Black : Tactics Quiz !

The previous post featured a nice sicilian game won by GM Ivanchuk in his last game against Cheparinov in the M-Tel 2008 tournament.

Here, we present 4 tactical training positions. There are all issued from the Sicilian Defence, and all feature a tactical idea leading to the victory of the black pieces. Please note that a previous post showed an attack from Kasparov in a Sicilian Scheveningen against GM Michael Adams in Linares 2005.

The roster in this quiz includes games from GMs J.Polgar, Delchev and V. Ivanchuk (again!)

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1.Black to play and win ( Ehlvest-Ivanchuk, 1991)
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2. Black to play and win (Zaragatski-Delchev 2005)
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3. Black to play and win ( Nijboer-J.Polgar 1989)

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4. Black to play and win ( Xie Jun-Polgar 1988)

SOLUTIONS:
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