Understanding Before Moving 3 – Sicilian Structures Part 3

International Master Herman Grooten has over 35 years’ experience as a professional chess trainer, with many pupils becoming world's leading players, such as GM Loek Van Wely, GM Benjamin Bok, GM Robin Swinkels etc. He wrote several books, all of them received great acclaim worldwide. This is his fifth book in this series, third volume of the sixteen volumes that will be published over the next six years.

'The concept is extremely attractive to amateur players: whatever your strength, it carries the promise of learning or revising some general strategic knowledge in an easy way.'—GM Mathew Sadler, New In Chess Magazine, 05/19'I really enjoyed Volume 1, and I found it enlightening and I think that its intended readership of club players will feel exactly the same way and that their understanding of the structures under discussion and chess thinking in general will have increased. I'm looking forward to seeing the next volumes!'—Carsten Hansen, American Chess Magazine, 01.2019'The emphasis on understanding via pawn structure analysis will help any student of chess. Highly recommended!—John Upham, Cove, Hampshire, 22nd August, 2019, British Chess Magazine‘Understanding Before Moving 3 – Sicilian Structures Part 3: Dragon - Sveshnikov - Four Knightsby Herman Grooten is the final (massive!) volume in a trilogy designed to teach the core ideas of different variations of the Sicilian. The present work covers the Dragon, Accelerated Dragon, Sveshnikov, Kalashnikov, and Four Knights. Grooten offers theorical overviews, then presents carefully and comprehensively annotated games, and concludes with exercises to test what the reader has learned. This is a great series that will benefit a wide range of readers from 1600 to 2400.'—IM John Donaldson, Chess Newsletter, Mechanics' Institute, April 2026