Hansen: Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening: Vol. 6 Open Sicilian improvers Forget about playing “properly” in

Forget about playing “properly” in the opening

e4 d6 as the starting point

"Petrosian was the first defender in the truest sense of the word

David Smerdon is an Australian chess grandmaster and behavioural economist

as well as those that require particularly vexing calculation

Hansen: Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening: Vol. 6 Open Sicilian improvers Forget about playing “properly” inThis book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Open Sicilian Defense, such as: 1) The Najdorf Variation 2) The Scheveningen Variation 3) The Dragon & Accelerated Dragon Variations 4) The Classical Variation