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5 c3 a6 6 c4 e6 7 iLb3 D Kasparov now tried three different moves. In the first three games 6,8 and 10 he played 7 bd7 8 f4 sc5 and each time Short reacted differently. Three draws followed and the openings were always favourable for Kasparov who, nevertheless, should have lost at least two of these games due to later mistakes. There followed 7 fc6 in the next two games. After 8 f4 kel 9 e3 0-0, Kasparov managed to strike a blow against one of the popular lines in the 12th game 10 Wf3 xd4 11...
Introduction
My serious acquaintance with the Sicilian Sozin began in 1982 when I chanced upon an interesting though still largely unknown article by the master Mochalov, published in the magazine Shakhmaty, Shashki v BSSR 1980 . The article contained plenty of interesting games and lines where White attacked desperately and Black defended doggedly, but the following piece of analysis constituted the main topic 1 e4 c5 2 gt f3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 ixd4 sf6 5 sc3 ic6 6 i.c4 e6 7 i.e3 i.e7 8 e2 a6 9 b3 0-0 10 0-0-0...
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0-0 kbl 9 Sel bd7 10 i.g5 h6 11 .h4 gt c5 T gt 12 i.d5 exd5 13 exd5 lt gt d7 14 b4 ia4 15 ixa4 bxa4 16 c4 amp c8 17 Wxa4 - d7 18 Wb3 g5 19 g3 lt h5 20 c5 dxc5 21 bxc5 Wxd5 22 Se8 amp d7 23 a4 Ac6 24 ftxc 1-0 Wonderful games The 1960s were the heyday of the Sicilian Sozin, due not only to the American champion... The Yugoslav grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirovic was the second outstanding follower of Sozin. Starting in 1965, Velimirovic put into practice a most dangerous attacking scheme against...