100 Repertoires Four Knights Sicilian by GM Liem Quang Le

Gain A Headstart Against 1.e4 With
The Most Logical Sicilian

100 Repertoires: Four Knights Sicilian sets you up for opening success with familiar developing moves. It follows a clear, repeatable strategy to increase the pressure, while giving the opponent plenty of chances to go wrong!

Top players Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2021 World Rapid Champion) and Daniil Dubov (2018 World Rapid Champion) play the Four Knights Sicilian all the time in speed chess events…

While Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2-time World Junior Champion) and Richard Rapport (2022 World Championship candidate) find it to be reliable in any time control.

If that inspires your confidence, then here’s how the opening works:

After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3, you’ll open the f8-a3 diagonal for your bishop, and rule out Anti-Sicilians like the Rossolimo with 2…e6. Then you’ll rapidly develop your knights to the center with 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6.

The Four Knights Sicilian

So far so logical, and so is the follow-up:

Put the e4-pawn under pressure by pinning the knight with …Bb4 — open up lines for your pieces with …d7-d5 — then use the momentum to secure long-term positional trumps or drum up an attack.

Contrast your clear-cut play with the difficult moves White must find, because their most natural continuations are, in fact, mistakes!

For example:

If White plays the club-player-favorite plan of 6.Be3 — followed by Qd2 and O-O-O like in the Najdorf or Dragon — they’ll find your pieces to be too fast to allow such a primitive attack…

White has no attack to speak of and must even
watch out for …Kh8 and …f5 ideas

And it is they who must defend!

All of these “little wins” add up to a 54.5% win rate for Black in online and non-master games. Which is a huge leap from the usual 45% in other openings.

But even if White can find that narrow path to stave off a bad position, you need not worry, because Grandmaster Le Quang Liem will arm you with…

The Firm Foundation You
Need To Ace The Opening

Le was the 2013 World Blitz Champion and the 2019 Asian Chess Champion — while his peak rating of 2739 FIDE put him firmly within the top 25 in the world.

He’s a super-GM. So painstaking attention to detail, especially in the opening, is one of his strengths.

When Le created 100 Repertoires: Four Knights Sicilian, he analyzed with the latest chess engines, and consulted half a dozen databases to ensure you’re:

💯 Never worse in the opening…

💯 Always creating counterplay even against the most challenging moves…

White attacks the dark squares which is best.
But even here, you’re fighting for
the initiative with guns blazing!

💯 All while keeping the number of variations down to just 100!

You’ll also get 10 Quickstarter variations. So you can start playing the Four Knights Sicilian in the next hour or two…

Plus 13 hours of video which adds another layer of instruction on top of Le’s pinpoint-precise analysis.

We’re confident that 100 Repertoires: Four Knights Sicilian can improve your results against 1.e4 — keep your moves logical and easy to remember — and streamline the amount of must-learn theory.