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Exercise 40

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Comprehensive coverage of the long-established main line of the Nimzo

Sergei Tiviakov was unbeaten for a consecutive 110 professional chess games as a grandmaster

The Baffling 2.b3 Sicilian SN_required true we both saw chess notA new weapon for White: 1. e4 c5 2. b3 vs. Sicilian! The English IM Lawrence Trent is a self professed "anti Sicilian". He dedicates his new DVD to the rare 2. b3, which has already been successfully tried out by Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik. Apart from the fact that this style of play is extremely flexible and easy to learn, in practice it makes it extremely difficult for Black to position his pieces in the way he is used to in "his" Sicilian.