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381 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in 1970. The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5 The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. Opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for White because of the high success rate of the Sicilian defence against 1.e4.[1] New In Chess stated in its 2000 Yearbook that of the games in its database, White scored 56.1% in 296,200 games beginning 1.d4, but 54.1% in 349,855 games beginning 1.e4, mainly because the Sicilian held White to a 52.3% score in 145,996 games. 17% of all games between grandmasters, and 25% of the games in the Chess Informant database, begin with the Sicilian. Almost one quarter of all games use the Sicilian. Grandmaster John Nunn attributes the Sicilian Defence's popularity to its "combative nature": "in many lines Black is playing not just for equality, but for the…
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The Sicilian defence, (Pergamon chess series) (Bk. 1) Hardcover - 1970
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- Title The Sicilian defence, (Pergamon chess series) (Bk. 1)
- Author Gligoric, Svetozar
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- Publisher Pergamon Press, Oxford
- Date 1970-01
- ISBN 9780080134048
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