In the second and main part of the book we have analyzed the line 6.Be3 e5. This is not just a single variation, but rather an entire complex of opening lines, whose theory is now so complicated, involving many different branches, that it resembles a separate opening.

White is faced with an immediate choice: where to retreat his knight. The moves 7.Nf3 and 7.Nde2 are by no means harmless for Black, but nevertheless I would venture to recommend the traditionally main move 7.Nb3, with the already familiar plan of Qd2+f3+g4+0-0-0; in the first place, because I consider this to be White’s most principled approach, and secondly because the entire plan and all its nuances are already familiar to us from the previous books in this series."

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 Preface

Part 1 Knight Variation  1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bg5 - 1 various; 7...h6 8.Bh4 various; 8...g5 9.Bg3 various; 9...Bg7 10.h3 Nf6

 2 7...h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3 Bg7 10.h3 Ne5

Part 2 English Attack (6...e5)

049 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 3 without 7...Be6

64 7...Be6 8.f3 without 8...h5, 8...Be7 and 8...Nbd7

78 5 7...Be6 8.f3 h5

109 6 7...Be6 8.f3 Be7

137 7 7...Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.Qd2 h6

177 8 7...Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.Qd2 without 9...h6 and 9...Be7

214 9 7...Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.Qd2 Be7 10.g4 without 10...0-0

232 10 7...Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.Qd2 Be7 10.g4 0-0 11.0-0-0 w/o 11...b5

247 11 7...Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.Qd2 Be7 10.g4 0-0 11.0-0-0 b5

269 Index of Variations

englisch , 272 Seiten, kartoniert, 2012