Khalifman/Soloviov: Squeezing the Sicilian - Alapin Variation SN_required true Masters can be appreciated as

Masters can be appreciated as almost a primer on the subject of how to turn the two bishops into a significant advantage

Sneed is a Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a keen amateur chess player

Playing the Nimzo-Indian offers a complete repertoire for Black after 1

e4: We are of course talking about the Najdorf Variation in the Sicilian Defense

his loss of the title to Alekhine and his efforts to recapture the championship in the last years of his too-short life

Khalifman/Soloviov: Squeezing the Sicilian - Alapin Variation SN_required true Masters can be appreciated asAdvance with d2 d4, build a solid pawn centre and then dictate the play. In the Alapine System White's strategic idea is extremely simple. He prepares to advance with d2 d4, to build a solid pawn centre and then dictate the play. He will have to pay for this with the fact that his queen's knight has been deprived of the best square for its development, but it may have other suitable squares (in many variations this will be not the d2 square but a3).