6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. Bxd7+ Nxd7 Ne2 and without your light bishop, d5 is much more of a weakness than it is in the Najdorf
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e5 is the mainline Najdorf. It's an excellent move, and gets plenty of play, even at the Super GM level.
e6 may well be even more popular at the highest levels, but really, it's a transposition to a Scheveningen via Najdorf move order, avoiding some of the nasty white options against the standard Schevy move order.
(EDIT: See below!)
Oh, sorry, I missed that you left a6 out. That's just odd, and not a Najdorf at all. But assuming you meant (or would consider) 5...a6, 6...e5, then what I said above begins to make at least a little sense.
Absolutely playable! 5....e6 would be the Scheveningen,
(Kasparov's pet variation) By playing 5....e5, it can become
Kalashnikov/Lowenthal/Sveshnikov variation, depending on your follow up.
I used to play it sometime ago, but I eventually switched to the more sharp Accelerated Dragon variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6..)
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PawnStar28 wrote:
Absolutely playable! 5....e6 would be the Scheveningen,
(Kasparov's pet variation) By playing 5....e5, it can become
Kalashnikov/Lowenthal/Sveshnikov variation, depending on your follow up.
I used to play it sometime ago, but I eventually switched to the more sharp Accelerated Dragon variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6..)
yeah i've actually considered giving the accelerated dragon a chance.
Jun 14, 2010
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SorryFugu wrote:
Oh, sorry, I missed that you left a6 out. That's just odd, and not a Najdorf at all. But assuming you meant (or would consider) 5...a6, 6...e5, then what I said above begins to make at least a little sense.
well i did mention playing 5...e5 or 6...e5 (following 5...a6).
Well, 5...e5 gives white a nice advantage out of the opening in theory. As stated above, Bb5+, Bd7, Bxd7+, and the weakness of d5 is more obvious.
Jun 14, 2010
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DrizztD wrote:
Well, 5...e5 gives white a nice advantage out of the opening in theory. As stated above, Bb5+, Bd7, Bxd7+, and the weakness of d5 is more obvious.
yes this does seem to be the case. thanks for the observation (and to birdboy1).
trigs wrote:
SorryFugu wrote:
Oh, sorry, I missed that you left a6 out. That's just odd, and not a Najdorf at all. But assuming you meant (or would consider) 5...a6, 6...e5, then what I said above begins to make at least a little sense.
well i did mention playing 5...e5 or 6...e5 (following 5...a6).
I did a bad job of reading on a couple fronts. Sorry 'bout that.
But yeah, e5 is mainline if one considers the English Attack mainline these days, which one probably ought to given how often it's assayed. Against Bg5, e6 with the Schevy is probably to be preferred.
I'm off to my remedial reading comprehension lessons. Toodles.
i usually play the sicilian in response to 1. e4 and i normally like to play the najdorf variation if i have the chance.
i have recently been including a questionable move into my sicilian (well, i think it may be questionable). what do you all think of an e5 push? e6 is the norm, but i'm kind of liking e5 instead. what do you all think?