Najdorf English Attack

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pdve

I have a lot of trouble playing against the English Attack when I play the Najdorf. Are there any books specifically on this line?

Stormstout

I don't know if the variations in it are up to date but I'm sure you'd benefit from Kasparov's DVDs. 3rd part is completely devoted to English Attack.

http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4003900

plutonia

yes, there are whole books dedicated only to Be3 in the Najdorf. Go figure.

 

I play the Topalov and I really like it. I like it so much that when I see Be3 I start rubbing my hands.

 

The system starts by simply throwing the b pawn at white like a n00b. It's not easy for white to deal with that.

Robles_Ulises

there is a book from jesus de la villa i read it and was able to play quite well against Be3, what i do is to delay my castle and use that tempo to get a fast atack in the queenside by playing a6, b5, b4 which get the white pieces kinda clustered followed by the queen side Knight manouevre Nd7, Nb6 Nc4 and try to change it for the e3 bishop in order to get more space in your position. i do this plans and when the atack in the kingside is unavoidable i just castle on the queenside i have had good results with this system

Robles_Ulises

more or less like this http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=553938638

pdve

robles, yeah. i know two people who play that way.

my coach and stockfish!

Robles_Ulises

well you probably should try it then, i see my oponents suffer cuz it takes very long to make their atack in the kingside and when they finally make that attack posible my king is not there anymore Tongue Out