Grivas: The Modernized Grivas Sicilian Schachtrainer Destruction of Pawn Structure

Destruction of Pawn Structure

and the author of award-winning books on chess strategy

mostly from the last two years

I often train my own students using the books from his Grandmaster Preparation series

Grivas: The Modernized Grivas Sicilian Schachtrainer Destruction of Pawn StructureThe Sicilian Defense is an opening that commences with the moves 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian Defense is the most popular and best scoring response to White's first move 1. e4. For example, 1. d4, is a statistically more successful opening for White because of the high success rate of the Sicilian Defense against 1. e4. New In Chess stated in its 2000 Yearbook that of the games in its database, White scored 56. 1% in 296,200 games beginning 1. d4, but 54.