Scheveningen vs. Najdorf

Yes, they do. And that often is done so to avoid the traditional Keres attack. As for me, I prefer the Keres attack in traditional Scheveningen over white's 6. Bg5 against Najdorf. So yes it is personal and both fully playable.

Agreed, bring on the Keres. And play it well, because I'm always very happy when White freely and of his own choice trashes his Kingside in the opening. Tons of juicy targets :)

maskedbishop I like your view.

You know, though, Paul Keres was the all-time basher of the Sicilian with the White pieces.

Maybe that's just History for History's sake.

Scheveningen is a little more practical opening you can play more on understanding than memorization of theory. But it is a relativley theorethical also of course. Its still a sicilian! If you play the scheveningen you can reach the main line through two different move orders . 1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 or e6. Which makes it little harder for your oponent to prepare a specific anti-sicilian line. You can avoid the sicilian Moscow by playing 2...e6. But as Mark Ginsburg explains in his excellent video on the scheveningen black should prefer 2...d6 anyhow as the sicilian Moscow nowadays is regarded as "nothing special".

As mentioned already "-6.Bg5 isn't good against the Scheveningen like it is Najdorf"

6.Bg5 in the Najdorf is a monster to deal with. Not so in the Scheveningen.

But personally I dont like to have my king under attack/fire so I avoid both these sicilian variations (I have played them both) and have now switched to the Sveshnikov sicilian.

Someone wrote : " In the sveshnikov sicilian you will never be mated " Of course it is not so...but I feel it is harder for my oponent to attack my king in the sveshnikov. In scheveningen and Najdorf my King is always very scared!

I dont really like that...but thats another topic I guess.

This has a lot do with White's inability to castle to c1.

In the Dragon and Classical, castling to c1 gives White powerful play.

True The Schevenigen allows the Keres and the English, but avoids the Polugaevsky.

Also avoids the Moscow, for what that's worth.

and so how do you pronounce "Scheveningen"?

probably wrong, like everybody else.

With lots of phlegm.

I pronounce it Sheh-VEN-ih-gen.

But I know that's not right.

Ševeningen <- simple as that. :D

If you know how to read German, this should not be a problem.

scheveningen is a dutch place. and nobedy in the wordl but the dutch can pronounce its name. thas is becus of the SCH. you say it like SG.

My godmother's boyfriend is dutch. Does that count?

If you can pronounce scheveningen, you're considered an honorary dutchman

Try this:

https://translate.google.com/?text=#en/nl/scheveningen

Below in the right corner you can click on the speaker icon. The pronunciation is from someone from the West part of the Netherlands.

Šhejveningen. Haha, nice Loek, thanks! 

So the same as Schippers, superfast running girl?

Exactly, she is amazing, isn't it?

And, by the way, the same as schaken (=chess).

Scheveningen (maybe) and Schild(for sure) were used as shibboleths (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth) in times of war.

Tjepie is right, that no foreigner can pronunciate it properly.

And if you don't know how to pronounce Scheveningen, how do you pronounce Euwe? It's something about the Dutch...