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Title: Starting Out: The Sicilian by John Emms ISBN: 1-85744-249-0 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: From the basics to advanced chess theory and examples
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book delivers on its promise
Comment: I am rated about 1500 USCF and I found this book to be an excellent introduction to the Sicilian. A brief look at each idea and 1-2 games to illustrate the points. Of course, I found that at times I wanted to delve deeper into the topic but then I closed the book, looked at the cover and re-read the title: "Starting Out: The Sicilian." An excellent title.
Rating: 3
Summary: Too little information
Comment: 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.
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Title: Starting Out: The Nimzo-Indian by Chris Ward ISBN: 1857442547 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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