Annotations tirées de (en) Garry Kasparov et Dmitry Plisetsky (trad. Ken Neat), Garry Kasparov on my great predecessors : Part V : Korchnoi, Karpov, Londres - Guilford, CT, Everyman, coll. « Everyman chess », , 480 p. (ISBN978-1-85744-404-9, OCLC65651668), p. 454.
(en) Garry Kasparov et Dmitry Plisetsky (trad. Ken Neat), Garry Kasparov on my great predecessors : Part V : Korchnoi, Karpov, Londres - Guilford, CT, Everyman, coll. « Everyman chess », , 480 p. (ISBN978-1-85744-404-9, OCLC65651668), p. 455.
(en) Garry Kasparov et Dmitry Plisetsky (trad. Ken Neat), Garry Kasparov on my great predecessors : Part V : Korchnoi, Karpov, London - Guilford, CT, Everyman Publishers Distributed in North America by the Globe Pequot Press, coll. « Everyman chess », , 480 p. (ISBN978-1-85744-404-9, OCLC65651668).
Ainsi, dans son ouvrage (en) Mikhail Shereshevsky (trad. Evgeni Ermenkov), The Soviet Chess Conveyor, Sofia, Bulgaria, Semko, , 345 p. (ISBN978-954-8782-01-2, OCLC33945299), Mikhail Shereshevsky a écrit (page 5): « Let's assume that White tries to play a slow positional game in some sharp variation of the Sicilian Defence. That strategy can only be successful against an unprepared opponent. Accordingly, the initiative might be gradually seized by Black. »
Frits Van Seters, Les échecs : Toutes les tactiques des champions!, S.l, Marabout, coll. « Jeux » (no 5313), (ISBN978-2-501-02694-9, OCLC492890799), p. 312
