Description
The Taimanov Sicilian is a chess opening widely played at club level and beloved of elite players like Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand and young star Anish Giri.
Against this variation, the ever famous English Attack has long been considered harmless, until in recent years some remarkable improvements were found for White. By castling queenside White creates exciting positions in which he has a dangerous initiative.
Armenian grandmaster Zaven Andriasyan has thoroughly and systematically investigated this unexplored chess opening area. He unveils the structures behind the various lines and explains the plans and counterplans.
Andriasyan also gives a wealth of very interesting new ideas and novelties, and provides the reader with 50 exercises.
Amateur chess players will find the English Attack to be an understandable and dangerous weapon. Players at (grand-)master level will be delighted by the amount of valuable new information they will find.
Zaven Andriasyan (1989) was both European under-18 and World under-20 chess champion in 2006. He is currently one of the greatest grandmasters in Armenia. He is the author of the bestselling ‘Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian’ (2013).
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