Najdorf English Attack, when will the final verdict be reached?

Good idea, this is what Jones and Kornev recommend in their repertoire books as well. I heard that Magnus Carlsen was even playing this recently.

I did play a game using a kingside fianchetto against an e6 Sicilian earlier this week which turned out well for me. Black castled 0-0-0 so in a way, it sort of was like an exciting English Attack castled on opposite wings position but without all the theory.

I'm focusing mostly on learning middlegame patterns now, this is I think one of the funnest parts of chess. One of my favorite books I've gotten is GM Gormally's Mating the Castled King. GM Murray Chandler's How to Beat Your Dad at Chess is also great, it's not really as childish as the misleading title makes it sound either, really great book that shows 50 different mating patterns. Gormally's Mating the Castled King is like a companion to How To Beat Your Dad at Chess. It should be the book people study right after, or alongside, that one.

Kingside fianchetto's work particularly well against e6 systems because Black then has no Bg4 available; sometimes that would work well for him to indirectly pressure d4. For that reason the Kings Indian Attack is not recommended against d6 but is reliable against e6.

Middlegame is my weak spot so that should work well for me too. I find myself excellent in openings, decent in endgames (I've been working hard on those the last years) and only average in the middlegame.

I'm sure you're better at middlegames than you give yourself credit for.

Have you read Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition Key Moves and Motifs in the Middlegame? This is a great one that's like How to Beat your Dad at Chess or Mating the Castled King except instead of mating patterns they have 40 middlegame motifs, each with it's own memorable chapter name. For example, one of the chapters is called "Sur Place En Prise" and it's all about putting a knight on g5 or g4 and typical circumstances where you can just leave it there even if h3/h6 is played. Annotated in that chapter is a game between Ljubojevic and Korchnoi where they castle on opposite wings, Ljubojevic has a knight on g5 with h6 played and Korchnoi has a knight on b4 with a3 played, both sides just leaving their knights there for some moves. I've not read this book completely yet, I just got it a month ago, but it's a great one, I'd say this one, Gormally's and Chandler's books are my three favorite chess books that aren't collections of tactics puzzles.

Have you read Hans Kmoch's book Pawn Power In Chess? I've started reading that one too.

The guy who wrote Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition Key Moves and Motifs in the Middlegame actually used to be my coach. Maybe he can give me a copy for free  I haven't read Pawn Power but I know it's a classic title. I know someone irl who has it and I could probably borrow it from.

Wow, really? That's awesome. Even if he can't give you one for free maybe he can give you one for a good price.

My copy of Pawn Power in Chess is in descriptive notation. I have a .cbv file of the games though so I play the moves out on chessbase as I read the book. Not that I can't read descriptive notation but it's just easier that way and I can focus on the actual game more.

The legendary IM Hans Kmoch has long since passed away. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if people downloaded his writings for free anyway. It's a classic book that everyone should have access to.

And lest anyone suspect I'm a pirate based on that last comment here's a picture of my physical copies of the Chandler, Gormally, and Oudeweetering books.

http://postimg.org/image/8bm4ql7f7/

I must admit I sometimes do download a free .pdf of a book just to see what it is but if I really like the book I usually end up buying it because I find it much more comfortable to read a physical book. And with dead authors like Hans Kmoch who have written classic books I do think it's ok to download for free although I have a physical copy of that one as well.

I got the very same board as you, just different pieces.

Neat, those piece are beautiful by the way.

My pieces are the Fischer Spassky pieces that House of Staunton had on clearance for $150. This was before the movie Pawn Sacrifice came out, after the movie came out suddenly they sold out of them. One of my White rooks fell on the floor a while ago and one of the crenulations broke off, I was able to find it I just haven't glued it back on yet.

I sent you a friend requst by the way, though I notice you appear not to have added anyone as a friend yet so I won't be offended if you're just one of those people who prefer to be anti-social and decline it.

I have 20 friends :O (which is more than in real life )

Oh for some reason it didn't show up for me, perhaps chess.com changed their layout of the profiles. Thanks for accepting my friend request, 20 friends is more than I have in real life too.

i just came here just of curiosity did im pfren refute the Ng4 line

 No, he didn't . He showed a critical line were if black underestimate the ending he is practically lost. 

 In the beginning i couldn't find how because i was trying to force things but now i understand that black loses because he dont have moves to play. White just need to wait black and zugzwang will do the rest.

What is the point of Bf2

To parry the threat of Nxd4 Qxd4 Nxf3+.

Have never had an opponent play 6...Ng4 against me, so frankly speaking know no theory in it. If opponent was higher, or even similar rated, depending on mood would allow 7Bc1 Nf6 draw. If weaker after 7Bg5 h6 8Bh4 g5 9Bg3 Bg7 10h3 Ne5 which are quite natural moves, f3 wouldn't be obvious to me. Had five/ten minute look at position considered 8be2 Nc6 9Nb3 then probably castle king-side. Play the classical line against the dragon, it's vaguely similar. White looks alright, wouldn't expect to have much. Against a much weaker opponent considered 8Qd2 Nc6 then castle queen-side. Then can optimistically try to exploit g5 as a weakness, especially if black castles. The options aren't the critical ones, but look solid enough, and when white can always choose something like this. The idea that as a club player need to know all the theory, seems rubbish to me.

sorry if i am being annoying wht is the point of Qe3

The threat is trapping the queen, and forces the exchange of black's best peice bg7.

Rxb2 draw agreed lol. Now that is why correspondence chess is pretty awesome, because all of the games don't really make much sense. Of course, to a computer it is obvious, but to humans, well...

But does white have any other moves than Qe3 cause Qe3 has a tactical trick and improves tha postion of the queen but is there really no other moves in the position