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The White Sniper
Charlie Storey
The White Sniper is characterised by three moves against any black setup: 1.g3 2.Bg2 and 3.c4 though not necessarily in that order. Think of The White Sniper as a Hyper- Accelerated Sicilian Dragon against anything that Black plays.
The White Sniper practitioners’ philosophy is to avoid known drawish theory, whilst keeping a small advantage and stopping Black from having any dangerous counterplay. I prefer to play The White Sniper with 1.g3, allowing Black the option of a large pawn centre with e5 and d5. However, when starting out with the White Sniper learn it first with 1.c4 to cut down on what you need to know. This opening and the Black Sniper recently helped me to secure an International Master Norm at the 2019 British Chess Championship. In the White Sniper FritzTrainer I have ‘Deep Dived’ with the engine, normally to at least depth 30, to help guide my opinions and suggestions.
• Video running time: 6 hours 40 minutes (English)
• With interactive training including video feedback
• Extra: Database with Model Games
• Further Training chapter with repertoire and play features
Contents
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The pure White Sniper 1: Greedy centre undermined
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The pure White Sniper 2: Greedy centre undermined
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The pure White Sniper 3: Dealing with Harry the h-pawn
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Play an Accelerated Dragon with an extra tempo.
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Play a Closed Sicilian with an extra tempo.
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Closed Sicilian: Neutralise Blacks aggressive Bc5 Sicilian.
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Beat the annoying c3 Sicilian with an extra tempo.
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c3 Sicilian with Nf6: Transpose in to a favourable Reversed Pirc with an extra tempo.
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King's Indian Defence: Use the Rb1 plan to confuse your KID opponents.
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Is the Dutch refuted? Pretty sure the Dutch is dead!
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Sniper vs Sniper 5.Nf3: Micro advantage for white.
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Sniper vs Sniper 5.d3: Micro advantage for white.
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1...b6. Head for a Maroczy Bind
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Queen's Gambit Accepted: Sacrifice your white c-pawn and let the pieces increase in activity.
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Slav Gambit Accepted: Send your Knight to a5 and watch black crack!
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Queen's Gambit Declined 1: Put your pawn on b3.
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Queen's Gambit Declined 2: Put your pawn on b3.
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1...Nc6: Play a White Dragon and use your extra tempo for a quick a3/b4 queen side space advantage.
