The well-known grandmaster and theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov has used the Closed Variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5) more than 150 times in tournament play with a score of more than 70%. Many theoretically important games have been excluded by the author from 'official' chess databases, and here they are exclusively published for the first time.

The present Volume 2 (Master Course) contains the following main chapters:

- 61 theoretically important games for independent analysis;

- Encyclopaedia of variations;

- Summary of the 3.e5 system;

- Games for further study;

- Latest theoretical developments.

This two-volume work is intended for a broad range of chess enthusiasts. The author guarantees that anyone making a thorough study of the available material can expect an improvement in his playing strength in this system of approximately 200 Elo points.

Content:
006 Foreword by Anatoly Karpov

008 Introduction

010 Symbols

011 1 Theoretically important games for independent analysis

013 1.1 Games by World Champions

023 1.2 Master games

055 2 Encyclopaedia

055 Table 1: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5

064 Table 2: 4. c3 Qb6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. a3!?

069 Table 3: 4. c3 Nc6

075 Table 4: 5. Nf3 Bd7

03 Table 5: 6. Be2 Nge7 7. Na3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Nf5 9. Nc2

090 Table 6: 5. Nf3 Qb6

099 Table 7: 6. a3 Nh6 7. b4 cxd4 8. cxd4 Nf5

104 Table 8: 6. a3 c4

112 3 A summary of the 3. e5 system

116 4 Games for further study

119 5 The latest theoretical developments

133 Appendix

133 Index of themes

134 Index of names

136 Index of games

151 Index of variations