Timoshcenko: Sicilian Defense - The Chelyabinsk Variation: Its Past, Present and Future Holz Dreev offers a new look

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Timoshcenko: Sicilian Defense - The Chelyabinsk Variation: Its Past, Present and Future Holz Dreev offers a new lookA Variation by Any Other Name Foreword by Garry Kasparov One of the most popular and intriguing variations of the Sicilian Defense is the so called Chelyabinsk Variation. In the West, it is known as the Sveshnikov Variation , while older opening monographs may refer to it as the Lasker Pelikan Variation. It is called the Chelyabinsk Variation in Russia. It is the variation that arises after 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5. Once