The Richter-Rauzer Reborn - The Kozul Variation: The Kozul Variation

by Zdenko Kozul, Alozije Jankovic

Overview

The Richter-Rauzer is one of the most complex and rich battlegrounds in the Open Sicilian. This book is the distillation of the authors' decades-long experience in this variation, offering a practical approach based on understanding and knowledge of typical ideas. Do you wish to explore something double-edged and sharp, this book will leave you confident and fully armed to play for a win. For this second revised edition, Grandmasters Kozul and Jankovic teamed up to present you a way to even throw your most experienced opponent off balance!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789492510624
Publisher:	Thinkers Publishing
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Zdenko Kozul is a Croation Grandmaster and the winner of the 2006 European Individual Championship. He has represented his country at Olympiads, European and World Championships for almost twenty five years. His peak FIDE-rating he achieved in 2004, being 2640. Zdenko combines now successfully playing individual an team competitions with working as a trainer for the Croatian Chess Federation.

Alojzije Jankovic is a Grandmaster and FIDE trainer from Croatia. In 2010 he shared first place in the Croatian National Championships and played for the Croatian team et the Olympiad. He won several international tournaments and completed his degree at the faculty of Economics and Business at the Universityof Zagreb Croatia.

Editorial Reviews

An incredible tour de force of an opening book that will take some beating for depth and detail. Probably invaluable to the devotees of the open sicilian and certainly not for the feint hearted. Almost certainly this audience for this book will consist of 2000+ Elo rated players who have the motivation to investigate the fine detail and ideas of this sharper line. Clearly we have not checked the analysis (and why we would do that anyway?) but if you play open sicilian with either colour and you want to everything there is to know about the Richter Rauzer then this book is for you. John Upham, British Chess News, May 2020.

Richter Rauzer Reborn by Kozul and Jankovic: An absolutely mind-bending book which covers what can be considered as one of the most misunderstood variations of the Sicilian defense. For years the reputation of the black side of the Richter Rauzer, specifically Kozul’s namesake variation was regarded as suspicious by opening theory and yet the two authors among other grandmasters remained faithful to it. With the advent of modern computing technology this variation was vindicated as computers realized all is not gloom for black, leading to a new revival of the classical sicilian. Zdenko Kozul is a leading authority on this line so what he says must be considered to be gospel. NM Gopal Menon JUNE 2020

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