- ISBN13: 9781857445886
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Everyman Chess present three new books in their highly praised and best-selling Starting Out series. The series continues with coverage of two very popular openings among club and tournament players: the Trompowsky Attack and the Torre Attack. Added to this, there’s an updated and largely expanded edition of Starting Out: The Sicilian, the much acclaimed guide to the most popular opening in chess.
The Starting Out series has firmly established itself as the leading guide to studying openings for up-and-coming chess players. These books are ideal for enthusiastic players who have little experience of the openings in question and who wish to appreciate the essential principles behind them.
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I usually face the sicilian when playing e4. This book deals with all the basic ideas/responses against the sicilian. However sicilian is such a massive opening that it is impossible to cram everything in a 200 page book. Let us take the dragon variation for example, the author talks abt three main responses for white. The most popular being the Yugoslav attack, but in this variation Emms discusses only ONE main line and briefly mentions 2-3 subvariations. One look at the opening enclycopedia reveal the amount of complicated variations that can arise. Playing this would equivalant to walking into something that we think we knew and be surprised on the board. As they say little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Knowing ideas and plans are good, but not in a sharp opening like Dragon-Yugoslav or many other lines of the sicilian. So my point “This book is incomplete”, and that is why not recommended.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
Expertly written by a renowned chess Grandmaster John Emms, Starting Out: The Sicilian is an instructively accessible guide to the art of the Sicilian defense. From the basics to advanced chess theory and examples, Starting Out: The Sicilian is illustrated with diagrams, move-by-move observations and insightful commentary, Starting Out: The Sicilian is an excellent and strongly recommended resource for any and all serious chess players seeking to better understand and improve at this popular pastime.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
After reading this book, I was left wanting much much more. Of course, the Sicilian is a massive complex of several different types of opening, and to attempt to cover it in such a limited number of pages was optimistic indeed. Emms does a good job of relating some basic ideas in the Sicilian, but cannot really cover anything in the depth required to begin playing an opening as dynamic and complex as this. Perhaps it was subjective, but I felt like there was less explanatory prose than in Gallagher’s KID book from the same series. A more appropriate title would be “The Sicilian: an Appetizer.” No one should start playing the Sicilian on the basis of what they will learn from this book alone. If one does, one can expect to be crushed by anyone who has done any real homework on these lines. White’s development advantage and initiative really are quite dangerous. I am a 1. e4 diehard, and my easiest wins are always against players who attempt to play the Sicilian without really having studied it. I am not sure how much this book would help anyone over 1600 strength… better to just pick your variation and get a real book about it, or “start out” with Raetsky’s _Meeting 1. e4_, with lines for Black against all the sidelines and the Four Knights Variation against the real stuff.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
the book is well written , very clear no ambiguity , but it is better called an “introduction to the sicilian” since it will only help anybody who knows nothing about the sicilian except it is 1 e4 c5 nothing else ….. so it will open a window to a completely new world called the sicilian….but if u already played sicilian before or at least know the first 6 or 7 moves of any of its variation this book will not take u any further in that direction……the contents can be grasped more or less from other sources like wikipedia…..you will need probably another book after that under the title “starting out the sicilian” which should take you further and assist u in chosing which variation you would like to play , and then a specialized book in that variation to continue deeper ….so if you like that very early and primitive step go ahead and buy it its very well written book and so simple to understand.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
includes and all sub opening its a great book that will help you and is in very friendly language so u understand overall a great buy
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5