Andriasyan: The English Attack against the Taimanov Sicilian - A Guide for White Strategie aiming to control the center

aiming to control the center and restrict Black's typical counterplay

Unforgotten Chess Games was the title of a popular chess book by Theo Schuster

At the end of the book we carefully selected some practical exercises

his loss of the title to Alekhine and his efforts to recapture the championship in the last years of his too-short life

Andriasyan: The English Attack against the Taimanov Sicilian - A Guide for White Strategie aiming to control the centerThe Taimanov Sicilian is a chess opening widely played at club level and a favourite of elite players like Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand and young star Anish Giri. Against this variation, the ever popular 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