New: Andrew Martin: How to play the Open Sicilian
The Sicilian Defence is one of the most popular and sharpest replies to 1.e4. After 1.e4 c5, an exciting, unbalanced position is assured, where Black can play for a win from the very start of the game. The Open Sicilian describes all variations where White plays an early d2-d4. On this all-new ChessBase video course, IM Andrew Martin introduces you to this exciting world, so that you can begin playing the Sicilian in your own games. The main themes and ideas of the Open Sicilian are discussed, followed by a summary of all the accepted main lines. You will be able to make a choice as to which of them you want to play. Learn from IM FST Andrew Martin and increase your opening repertoire. Photo: ChessBase
How to play the Open Sicilian
By Andrew Martin
This video course is full of Sicilian masterpieces that delight and instruct. The author hopes that they will also inspire you to play the Sicilian yourself. Players under 1800 will gain most benefit from this video course.
• Video running time: 5 hours 50 minutes
• With interactive training including video feedback
• Extra: Training with ChessBase apps - Memorize the opening repertoire and play key positions against Fritz on various levels
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System requirements
Minimum:
Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX 11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation.
Recommended:
PC Intel Core i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX 11 graphics card with 512 MB RAM or better, 100% DirectX 10 compatible soundcard, Windows Media Player 11 and internet connection for program activation.
MacOSX
Minimum: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10
Streaming
Phone, tablet, desktop and laptop
About Andrew Martin
Andrew David Martin (born 18th May 1957 in West Ham, London) is an English chess player with the title of international master. Martin received his title as international master in1984. He earned his first grandmaster norm in the British Championship of 1997 in Brighton. Martin was a commentator at.the chess world championship between Kasparov and Kramnik in 2000 and commentated at the British Championship for 20 years, before retiring in 2017.
On the 21st February 2004 Martin set a new world record for simultaneous chess. He faced 321 chess players at the same time. His result was: 294 wins, 26 draws and only one loss. Martin is known as a professional chess teacher and is the former Head of the ECF Academy. Martin is a chess columnist, an author of chess books and the author of various instructional videos. He is also a FIDE Senior Trainer and the current ECF Manager of Coaches.
Martin lives in Bramley, England and still teaches extensively.
