Schmücker: Das sizilianisches Flügelgambit Taktik By the age of 25

By the age of 25

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one of the first things I wanted to do was introduce a tactics column to the magazine

Schmücker: Das sizilianisches Flügelgambit Taktik By the age of 25In his work on the Sicilian Wing Gambit (SFG) 1. e4 c5 2. b4 cxb4 3. a3, Marcus Schmcker addresses a highly interesting system that was long considered adventurous or, at best, an exotic option to avoid the enormous theoretical structure of the Sicilian Defense. The idea behind this gambit is actually quite serious: by eliminating the black c pawn and aiming for a rapid development of his queenside, White wants to achieve positional compensation for