The Open Sicilian

The Sicilian Defence is the most attractive and complicated opening in chess. If you don't play the Sicilian with White or Black, you miss much of the beauty and the challenges our royal game offers. For White 1.e4 players, building a repertoire against 1...c5 should be their priority.

Croatian top grandmaster Ivan Saric is one of today's greatest Sicilian experts. He plays 1.e4 with White and the Najdorf with Black. With The Open Sicilian, based on his highly acclaimed Chessable course, he has created an impressive repertoire against the Sicilian of just over 400 pages. By reading this volume, your knowledge of this opening and chess, in general, will make a significant leap.

The Open Sicilian is not a phonebook crammed with computer lines but a textbook full of 21st-century chess wisdom. Saric covers the entire range of Sicilians, from obscure sidelines to the main lines: the Najdorf, the Taimanov, the Rauzer, the Kan, the Sveshnikov, and the various Dragons. His approach, firmly based on the ideas of the English Attack, is very ambitious, and he supports his claims with deep analysis and illuminating verbal explanations.

Saric has written a book that will serve as a standard work for many years. He provides the content to be fully equipped against all the intricacies of the topical Sicilian lines.