Since I already mentioned certain problems with published theory, here are five examples where the improvement can be found by simply clicking the engine button. This isn’t unfair to the authors, because they used engines to check these lines too.

The first one comes from “The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon” by Peter Heine-Nielsen. This book dates back to 1998, but even then Fritz 3 was already strong enough to find the refutation (you don’t even need an engine because it’s obvious, way too obvious).

The second one can be found in “Openings for White according to Anand Vol. 7” from 2006:

The third example comes from Kasimdzhanov’s DVD on the Classical French where he analyzed the following line for white:

The fourth one is another recommendation by Nielsen in his DVD on the Sicilian Dragon:

The last example is from “Attacking the Caro Kann” by Dreev:

To be continued…