Playing 1.e4 - Sicilian Main Lines

John Shaw is a chess grandmaster and three-time Scottish Champion.

"I recommend, for most ordinary players who lack extraordinary powers, to instead base their White repertoire around the John Shaw series. His lines are more likely to highlight manoeuvres and positional plans plus the inherent value of the pieces and structure. It helps us mere mortals when there is more margin for the occasional imprecision. As for the fact that the three volumes together add up to over 1400 pages, well I suppose that if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well! Shawly!?" -- GM Glenn Flear, New in Chess Yearbook