The Chess Mind

Author: Dennis Monokroussos.
This is a blog for chess fans by a chess fan who is more than a chess fan - other topics do creep in from time to time, per my interest.
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This (Last) Week's ChessVideos Show: The Super-Fast Najdorf, Part 3
And it still isn't the last presentation! (So much for "super-fast".) In this week's installment, we finally get to 6.Bg5, the ultimate main line of the Najdorf. Yet it's still premature to call it the main line, because Black has so many options in response. After a brief discussion of some sidelines, I cover several replies to 6...e6 7.f4: 7...Nc6, 7...h6, 7...b5 and "all" of 7...Qb6 except for the old-fashioned and now trendy 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.e5 variation. That, along with 7...Qc7, 7...Nbd7 and 7...Be7, remains to be covered.

For now, you'll still find plenty of material to keep you entertained and hopefully instructed as well. Just click here and watch. The episode will be available, free and on-demand, for the next month or so.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Sunday May 24, 2009 at 3:27am

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