I suspect what you "know" about every other line is wrong, and white can at least draw in several other lines.
Sicilian Najdorf Poisoned Pawn Variation Theory
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Every other major variation has been analyzed to be at best a draw for white (assuming the first 9 moves are the same). There are other variations which are winning for white but they have differrent moves, such as 9.Nb3, and much more well known, 6. Be3.
Jul 28, 2015
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Maybe for now. For a good thirty years, Fischer games were thought to answer 10e5 completely. Chess isn't mathematics were something is proved for ever.
Yes! 10.e5 its not the only way for white to play for equality and initiative. There are many lines after Bxf6 where black needs a lot of computer preparation to stay on his feet and of course sidelines. The poisoned pawn variation its an irrational game with a lot of imbalances in both king and Queen side where the details wait to been discovered. Fischer was proud about a line he invented and said that it cant be busted from White until Spassky find another novelty to crack his line! I think its the twelve or eleventh game of 1972.
This is the beginning of the main line of the Sicilian Najdorf Poisoned Pawn Variation. I know that every line for white except the 10.e5 line has been refuted, and that this opening requires near-perfect play from both sides. Can people help with showing why other seemingly logical lines are wrong and how each side should continue from here (~30 moves deep)?