Variant MacDonnell 2.f4. Sicilian Defense

The new book of the famous theorist Evgenia Sveshnikova is devoted to the move 2.F4 in Sicilian protection. According to the grandmaster, who studies this system for about 40 years and applied over 100 times, it has repeatedly rescued it in important fights with strong rivals, when he needed only a victory. 2.F4 stroke is not too popular now, and therefore there is a wide scope for debut creativity. Meanwhile, this plan creates black serious problems, they should act quite vigorously and accurately not to get into the worst position. The author relies mainly to his parties, because I willingly play this system for both colors. A number of important fights for theory are published for the first time: at one time Yevgeny Sveshnikov did not allow them to enter publicly available computer bases. Most of the detailed commented parties are provided entirely to show the inseparable link of the debut with the Mittelshpil and even endgame