Boris Gelfand’s World Championship preparation seemed to stand him in good stead as he defeated Hikaru Nakamura with a Sicilian Sveshnikov in this game from Round 1 of the 2012 FIDE Grand Prix in London.
[Event "FIDE Grand Prix London"] [Site "0:00:33-0:09:33"] [Date "2012.09.21"] [EventDate "2012.09.21"] [Round "1"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Hikaru Nakamura"] [...]
Iraq’s FM Akar Ali Salih must have prepared the Sicilian Sveshnikov for his encounter against the Ukraine’s Super-GM Alexander Moiseenko, but Moiseenko’s greater experience with the line shines through.
[Event "40th Olympiad Open"] [Site "Istanbul TUR"] [Date "2012.08.28"] [Round "1.2"] [Board "4"] [White "Salih, Akar Ali Salih"] [Black "Moiseenko, Alexander"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteTitle [...]
Max Euwe, who became World Champion in 1935, swept all before him in the 1928 Amateur World Championship.
This video, which also contains other Max Euwe games from the same event, features a Sicilian Sveshnikov against Anatol Tschepurnoff.
[Event "World Championship Amateur"] [Site "The Hague"] [Date "1928.??.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Euwe, Max"] [Black [...]
Then 15-yr old grandmaster Magnus Carlsen really came to the fore in this event, but in this game he slightly misplayed an aggressive Sveshnikov Sicilian against GM Gata Kamsky
Other resources
Wikipedia – Sicilian Defence Wikibooks – Sveshnikov Sicilian chessgames.com – Sicilian
Game 5 of the 2012 World Chess Championship saw the same result, but a new opening, the Sicilian Sveshnikov.
Match:
Anand vs Gelfand – 2012 World Chess Championship Rapid Play 4 Gelfand vs Anand – 2012 World Chess Championship Rapid Play 3 Anand vs Gelfand – 2012 World Chess Championship Rapid Play 2 Gelfand [...]
Part 3 of 3 of a game from Round 7 of the 2010 Corus Chess tournament, held from the 15th to the 31st of January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee, between Hikaru Nakamura Vs. Alexei Shirov, featuring the Sicilian Defence, Sveshnikov Variation.
Series:
Nakamura vs Shirov, Corus 2010, Part 1 Nakamura vs Shirov, Corus [...]
Part 2 of 3 of a game from Round 7 of the 2010 Corus Chess tournament, held from the 15th to the 31st of January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee, between Hikaru Nakamura Vs. Alexei Shirov, featuring the Sicilian Defence, Sveshnikov Variation.
Series:
Nakamura vs Shirov, Corus 2010, Part 1 Nakamura vs Shirov, Corus [...]
Part 1 of 3 of a game from Round 7 of the 2010 Corus Chess tournament, held from the 15th to the 31st of January 2010 in Wijk aan Zee, between Hikaru Nakamura Vs. Alexei Shirov, featuring the Sicilian Defence, Sveshnikov Variation.
Series:
Nakamura vs Shirov, Corus 2010, Part 2 Nakamura vs Shirov, Corus [...]
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