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The Moscow Variation - A Practical Repertoire for White

GM Malakhov, GM Basso, and IM Ceres present The Moscow Variation: A Practical 3.Bb5+ Repertoire Against the Sicilian, a practical anti-Sicilian answer to 2...d6 built around 3.Bb5+, avoiding heavy Najdorf, Dragon, and Classical theory. The repertoire emphasizes the Maroczy structure after 3...Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.c4, with practical treatments of 3...Nd7, 3...Nc6, and other replies. As a Platinum Course, it offers 12 theory chapters, video instruction, 50 test positions, model games, a Memory File and Booster, To-Go versions, multilingual PGNs, and free updates every six months for two years, completing the authors' 3.Bb5 repertoire alongside Malakhov's Rossolimo volume.

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Najdorf the Scheveningen Way — Part 1: Deep Understanding

The Scheveningen has long been one of the soundest ways to play the Sicilian — a modest pawn centre on d6 and e6, no weaknesses, and the resources to strike with ...b5, ...d5 or ...e5 when the moment comes. Its one well-known problem is the Keres Attack after 5...e6 6.g4, and this camp removes it by move order alone: playing 5...a6 first reaches the same structures without ever allowing it. Across seven lectures, GM Ioannis Papaioannou opens with the typical ideas and strategies before any theory, then covers the 6.h3 and 6.Be2 systems in two lectures each, closing with the less common lines White reaches for to leave preparation early.

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