Robert Ris: A Complete Sicilian Repertoire – a review

The Sicilian Taimanov is very popular with the top pros because of its great flexibility. For a while it was Karpov’s main weapon against 1.e4 and Kasparov followed in his predecessor’s footsteps. In two courses Robert Ris now presents a complete repertoire for Black based on the Taimanov. In the first volume he shows why the Taimanov is such a popular variation, in the second volume he shows what Black can do against the Anti-Sicilians. Christian Höthe took a look at both courses.