25% of all club level games begin with the Sicilian and 17% of all grandmaster games begin with the Sicilian. Dennis gives you tools for dealing with the Sicilian, an essential skill for every serious chess player.
An Anti-Sicilian Line: b3 before d4
25% of all club level games begin with the Sicilian and 17% of all grandmaster games begin with the Sicilian. Dennis gives you tools for dealing with the Sicilian, an essential skill for every serious chess player.
Content: 87 minutes of instruction and analysis in a series of 3 lectures. PGN Included.
Recommended for: Intermediate Players.
Users rated this series: 4.60 out of 5
Chess Fans have said: Thanks, Dennis. Finally!! Great stuff!
FM Dennis Monokroussos is a 3-time Nevada State champion and won the Indiana State Championship in 2009. He taught philosophy at several universities, including the University of Notre Dame, and currently works as a chess coach for kids and adults, both in person and over the internet. He was a coach of a team that won the 1997/8 National K-8 Championship and came within half a point of repeating the next year as well. His individual students have been successful too, and include scholastic state champions and a participant in the World Youth Games.
Outline
- Part I
Magnus Carlsen vs. Peter Svidler
Run Time: 00:32:41 - Part II
Steinitzian Restriction Method
Samuel Rosenthanl vs. Wilhelm Steinitz
Run Time: 00:19:51 - An Anti-Sicilian Trap
Run Time: 00:29:04
