My advice: start playing the Kan. I played the najdorf for years and I've found that too often it is way too easy to go wrong with it. It feels like every single move is an only-move position where you have to find the right one and everything else is wrong. All of that hard work just to maintain equality? I think not.
It's quite easy to go (very) wrong in the Kan as well.
As far as I've found so far, not so much so as the najdorf.
In Najdorf it is easy to miss some tactic costing you the game. In Caro, on the other hand, it is easy to play a bit too passive and end up squeezed and crippled. In a way, in Najdorf it is easy to make a tactical mistake, and in Caro it is easy to make a positional mistake.
I don't mean the Caro-Kann. I mean the Kan Sicilian with e4 c5 Nf3 e6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 a6
Ah, okay, my bad!
My advice: start playing the Kan. I played the najdorf for years and I've found that too often it is way too easy to go wrong with it. It feels like every single move is an only-move position where you have to find the right one and everything else is wrong. All of that hard work just to maintain equality? I think not.
It's quite easy to go (very) wrong in the Kan as well.
As far as I've found so far, not so much so as the najdorf.
In Najdorf it is easy to miss some tactic costing you the game. In Caro, on the other hand, it is easy to play a bit too passive and end up squeezed and crippled. In a way, in Najdorf it is easy to make a tactical mistake, and in Caro it is easy to make a positional mistake.
I don't mean the Caro-Kann. I mean the Kan Sicilian with e4 c5 Nf3 e6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 a6