The Paulsen, is it good?

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Avatar of TheGreatOogieBoogie

I tend to have better luck with it than the Najdorf.  I don't mind the Marcozy Bind variations and know that if a pawn is on c4 to capture away from the center if Nxc6 to use the open d-file and in the g6 variations sometimes sac the bishop on c3 for the knight.  Anything else I should know about it?  How should I deal with attempted Yugoslav attack like setups (even in non-g6 systems)? 

I prefer the b-pawn at b6 rather than b5, but will play b5 if it's undebatably better in the position (though I have to study what those particular positions are). 

Avatar of MervynS

I believe the book to read is this one:

http://www.chess4less.com/cheap/005085.html


The link is a .cbh version, which I think is much easier to go through