The Rossolimo for Club Players

New Ideas and Strategic Plans in a Powerful Anti-Sicilian

Victor Bologan

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789493257283
• Year: 2022

The Rossolimo is the Anti-Sicilian that is by far the most popular with club players – and with elite grandmasters such as Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, and Alireza Firouzja.

If you play 3.Bb5 in the Sicilian, you do not need to keep up-to-date with the dazzling theoretical developments in all kinds of Open Sicilians. You can sidestep theory, play your own creative game – and put your opponent in trouble! You will love the harmonious, easy development and reach unbalanced positions with winning opportunities and surprisingly dynamic play.

Victor Bologan has played the Rossolimo ever since his youth – in practical play, but also in training sessions with Garry Kasparov. Bologan has now updated and expanded his authoritative 2011 repertoire book. As a former top-20 player, Bologan is one of the few Grandmasters whose opening books are read by both his peers and by club players. His ideas are always thoroughly analyzed and checked by the strongest engines, but still very accessible to amateurs.

Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Explanation of symbols
• Introduction
• Index of variations
• Chapter 1: Secondary moves
• Chapter 2: Black plays 3...♘f6
• Chapter 3: White exchanges after 3...d6
• Chapter 4: White castles after 3...d6
• Chapter 5: White castles after 3...e6
• Chapter 6: Black develops first: 7...♗b7
• Chapter 7: The direct exchange with 4.♗xc6
• Chapter 8: Other sixth moves for White
• Chapter 9: Posing problems: 6.♕e2
• Chapter 10: The fianchetto without 4.♗xc6
• Chapter 11: The fianchetto with 4...dxc6 and other sixth moves for Black
• Chapter 12: Black plays 4...dxc6 and 6...♘f6
• Chapter 13: The immediate 7.0-0
• Chapter 14: The fianchetto with 4....bxc6
• Chapter 15: What would you play?
• Chapter 16: Check your solutions
• Index of names
• Bibliography