The Najdorf (part 1) ⎸Sicilian Defense Theory
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The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense (B90 - B99) is one of the sharpest, most heavily analyzed and most fun variations in all of chess. It can lead to completely mental positions which not many humans can completely understand.
If you lack knowledge in the basics of the Sicilian Defense you should watch this introductory video: • Sicilian Defense (intr...
The opening was named after Miguel Najdorf, the legend of Polish and Argentinian chess. A player who’d been active in the top of world chess for fifty years. Legends such as Fischer or Kasparov, or, lately, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, have employed the opening as their favorite weapon against 1.e4.
The Najdorf starts after the moves:
1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc6 a6 - the move a6 signifies the variation
White has quite a few sensible responses. In this video, part one, I covered three most popular lines and the 6.f3 sideline. The other variations are coming in part 2.
6. Be3 - the English Attack. This is one of the most popular lines in all of chess. It results in crazy attacking positions with white striking on the kingside and black doing the same on the queenside.
6. Bg5 is the main line of the Najdorf. One of the most popular variations which occur from it is the poisoned pawn variation, in which black grabs the b2 pawn and hopes to survive the onslaught.
6. Be2 - the Opocensky or classical variation
6. f3 - a solid sideline for white which combines some features of the Prins Sicilian with the Najdorf.
Players whose games you should study: Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, MVL, Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Veselin Topalov, Vishy Anand
Notable Games: Adams vs Kasparov, 2005, Fischer vs J. Sherwin, 1957, Topalov vs Kasparov, 1996
looks like Maxime Vachier Lagrave is in your background as well, very thematic
He plays Grunfeld
Anish Giri plays Najdorf
@@anandroy174 ummm... no, lagrave is definitely one of the main advocators of the najdorf, have you seen him play the poison pawn?
th-cam.com/video/V6zOOHjcmLQ/w-d-xo.html (0:16)
@@anandroy174 Well, Grunfeld is D4 respond and Najdorf E4 so you can not say he plays this or that. He plays both depending on opponents play. And he is for sure on of the best if not the best player of those opening.
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It's lovely to hear that:) Thanks!
I thought it was boring as fuck no offense.
This is a fucked up boring material, and he's not making it easy on his audience I'm sorry.
@@alrawandi8402 u r probably the guy who doesn't listen in class well though nothing is wrong with tht
@@alrawandi8402 his explanation is clear, there is nothing wrong with it, eventhough I did found an incorrect move in the bg5 line, it's overall still very easily understandable
EnderrKing Holy shit it’s enderking
This was by far the most informative video on these lines that I've seen. Thank you for taking the time to curate this video
Time Stamp:
2:20 Video Begins
3:54 white plays f3 - Trade knights and play h6
13:49 play e5 against the English Attack
25:56 white goes for the Mainline play e6 and Be7
(29:28 Poisoned Pawn)
This needs to be pinned.
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Good shit
Thanks for the nice explanation about the Najdorf, I like it ang I subscribed....
Update?
At 31:00, after 13...Bxc3 14.Qxc3 Qxa2 White has 15.Qxc8# Yes, I agree, "far too risky"!
Was looking for this comment haha. Thought I was losing my mind
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Good luck for the tournament. Hope you crush the field!
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This video was phenomenal. More!!!! Please!!! Thank you!!! - I'd even love to hear from you about ideas you've had in the "resulting positions" that should be studied over the board. - Call it an advanced study over the Najdorf! Video #3!!
Thank you for the videos. I have been looking for a channel like this and this is really a great help.
4:58 f3 (e5)
14:00 Bg5 (e5)
26:10 Bg5 (e6)
29:50 Bg5 (e6 then Qb6 Poison Pawn)
Very helpful....I play on lichess alot & in particular i am starting to learn about this variation, so this in depth breakdown has been extremely helpful.
A great explanation.Got to know a few points that many books did not say. Thank you very much.
No problem:) Glad to help!
Very informative, would be looking forward for more
Thank you for this video this is now my favorite defense and I’ve climbed from 1200 to 1650.
and people say openings dont help beginners
@@heheheha875 it’s has helped a lot I’m now a 2000.
@@rafewarren1034 wow so I should learn this one
@@heheheha875 if you got the time and you put a lot of effort into learning the ideas and lines then it can be very useful.
Uber Nerd and Absolute legend! Can’t thank you enough for your videos. Superb!
Awesome. Thank you for your help.
Wooow!... Excellent explanation!
Thank you for making this video, it's really helped me get into the Najdorf!
With that being said I want to mention something you said at 18:17; it is not an advantage for white, from human play or engine play. If you look at this position in the masters database, 76% of games were drawn (albeit black does win less often) and in the Lichess database black actually scores very well (50% to 43% winrate).
Instead of Qb8, Ra4 is considered a better move. If Qb8, the engine and databases agree with you in the analysis (+0.8/+0.9).
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Thank you very much sir!
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you are a goldmine :)
Haha thanks for saying that!;)
Very instructive.
4:10 another downside, Perhaps even bigger is that d4 is extremely weekened after c4
Best channels. Keep up the great work.
Thank you:)
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Very good this is the ultimate treasure
Just the video I am looking for
I'm happy you found it:D
in the poisoned pawn variation of the main line after 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.e5 dxe5 11.fxe5 Nfd7 12.Be2 Bb4 13. Rb3, if Bxc3 is played after 14.Qxc3 black actually cannot take on a2, as if Qxa2 then 15.O-O Qa4 and 16.Ra1 the black queen is trapped, I think you missed that
After queen a2 white plays queen takes c8 checkmate
Wow the English attack variation is really stunning, enjoyed this crazy theory
I love your voice. Its soo soothing
8:15 why is the move bishop g2 preventing the pawn move on f4? assume b g2 then pawn on f4 and you have to retreat the bishop?!
Thank you
Thank you for the excellent video. I loved to know more about the line of the poison pawn. I'll study more about her. Which player can I take as an example in this line?
Great videos! I'm trying to learn the Open Sicilian and these videos are gold dust for me.
One minor improvement at 14:17, I'd recommend playing B76 first before Be6. Idea being, you'll want to wait for white to commit the pawn to f3 first as Be6 kinda tempts white into playing f4
exf4 Bxf4 Nc6 is fine for black as white has wasted a move playing Be3-f4 and his r pawn is weak
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I'm interested in playing the second sideline of the najdorf because i like the fianchetto setup and it reminds me of the Scheveningen but I'm still scared of g4 without f3 prep which white seems to do a lot
Nice video
Hello sejtepan, what book do u recommend for this variation of sicci9
It's worth noting that the variation at 30:53 is far too risky not because of the misplaced queen but because of Qxc8# 😂
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Oh yeah ur right
20:25 is Bxa2 a bad move? Then Q takes pawn but the king is open
thank you man from algeria
In the main line, with Bg5, I love the MVL´s games. He plays h5 em some positions to avoid the g4, and he delayed the rock. What do you think about this line?
thanku sir
Hi, thanks very much, as black i play Sicilian all the time and personally, don't like e5 because d6 is weakened, against Bg5 can we do h6 instead?
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In this position 17:56 after Bxa2 do you play Nc6?
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Sicilian Najdorf structure 5...a6 - 2:50
Side Line 6. f3 - 3:56
English Attack 6. Be3 - 8:35
Main Line 6. Bg5 - 25:53
Classical/Opocensky Variation 6. Be2 - 33:14
Apologies if this is a silly question, but for the e5 line in the English attack why is it good for black to play this way if it leads to white having a huge advantage?
After 6. Be2(classical) if black does other moves as 6. ... e6 and 6. ... Nc6
Then what are white ideas and set-ups?
Hi. Is there a video for kings Indians defense? I have searched but I can't find any one
Small correction: You said in the f3-line. After 6.e5, white doesn't want to play Nf5,because black would take. It's not wrong, that black can take and be slightly better, but d5 instead of taking immediately is even much stronger and almost winning for black.
Nice video, though. Love your channel, keep up the good work!
What do you do when white plays the scotch game e4 then d4?
10:10 - white plays h3, is this move popular? It doesn't seem to be played often according to opening data bases.
I'm rated 1200 not sure if learning theory helps my game yet but i really like the theory especially because of this channel, i already finished ruy lopez theory and now I'm trying to study the sicilian, any tips?
At 8 :13 why cant one play f4 with a tempo on the bishop? If he captures he ends up with an isolated queen's pawn
At 27:10, wouldn't it be better to retake with the Knight? So you keep the defender of the d pawn
What do you do if they don’t even play d4 to take your c pawn in the very beginning?
very underrated chess channel
Thanks for saying that:)
Great video, but what is MVL doing in the background? 😄
Bg5 main line 10,g4-b5 11,Bxf6 lines video upload sir..,
I have been patiently waiting for this. stejpan
Yeah, sorry for that mate. I took a break and went on a semi-holiday:) Regular uploads from now on!
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Hello, how do you organize your openings for this series? do you use the lichess study feature`?
I mostly use books.:)
20:31 "The Bishop has no squares". I wondered why after Nd4, we can't play Ba7 to save my Bishop as that, I thought, will lead to an extra piece on board for black. Then it hit me. The fact that we chose to take the pawn on d4 with the knight instead of the dark square bishop is what will lead to Nc3 after black's Ba7 move, which would fork my queen and bishop, and then I will have no way to save my Bishop. When I move the queen after Nc3, Nxe7+ will come next.
Why it's not taking the pwn white pawn a2 in minute 17:21 ?? Wouldn't be cjeck mate?
Just the video I am looking
some timestamps would be really useful. I wanted a refresh on the main line but you only cover it in the end.
Its funny because in the English Attack after 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bc1 Nf6 its the same position after a6 and it then transposes to the Classical Variation after 8.Be2 or it could be a draw by repetition
Hi. You say to watch over 50 games from “this” position. WHERE can I watch something like that
On lichess website
Chesstempo.com is where i go. Press on "chess game database" in the menu
By the way, the reason why Ng4 Bc1 is so "popular" in the English Attack is because a lot of higher-rated people use it for a lazy draw. Just repeating the moves 3 times.
20:35 - Why not pxa2 instead of pxc2?
10:08 why h3? the knight cant go to g5 because its protected by the bishop and the queen
I have the same question!! Knight can't go to g4 like earlier...
What game do you mention at 23:35? Was unable to comprehend the names.
Thank you!
You can try to search the moves on database and see if you can find the game?
how to respond to 5 f3 the best way then?
Konačno!!!
:D Tak je to kad ne poneses mikrofon sa sobom
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Please make a vedio with another variation siccillian
Sir can we use sicilian pawn opening against queen pawn opening trying to get more centre can you please make a vedeoon that
You mean playing 1...c5 against 1.d4? That is called "Old Benoni Defense".
This variation of the English Attack that you spend several minutes looking at, it seems you miss bishop takes a2, say around 20:15. That looks pretty deadly for black.
Why is Nf3 in response to e5 in the English not good?
At 6:29 you state: "Black should play h6 because g4 would be a problem." Why is this the case? Couldn't black just retreat his bishop to g6? Is the issue that white would gain a tempo with his attack on the kingside?
SIR CAN YOU MAKE A BEGGINER VEDEO ABOUT HOW TO THINK ABOUT OPPONENTS MOVES AND HOW TO RESPOND FOR EACH AND EVERY MOVE BECAUSE I HAVE NOT BEEN IN TOUCH WITH CHESS FOR AROUND A YEAR AND ALL MY CHESS SKILLS HAVE GOT WEAKENED
WOW there are over 1500 master games in lichess database from move 20 in that english main line theory!!!
Maxime in the back yoooooo
Thank you so much for the great content, your voice is calming and your explinations clear.
In the english attack, I useally go for a delayed castle with h5 to daze the white attack. You can get some awsome rock sac if white is going for a quick f4. What do you think about Nd7 and Rc8 befor Be7?
in english attack, black should not go for b4 when white plays g5, because this kind of lines, is most dificult to black to attack, the d5 square ll cause trouble, the knight, can go for this square forcing the trade, and after white takes whith pawn, the black bishop is trapt, and cannot comming back for the game, resulting in a position whith white has all the times to push king side pawns and simple attack, and black without resources to finish the attack, the best answer for g5 is knight h5, a strange move, but the knight can block easily the kings side pawns, and now black has time to manover his peaces to attack white king. and also can sacrifice pieces for that.
Zašto ne bi na 18:04 crni umjesto guranja pijuna na b3 uzeo lauferom pijuna sa a2 ? I zašto na 20:42 crni pijun ne bi uzeo a2 pijuna dao šah pa povukao laufera na b3 jer ga štiti a4 pijun ?
Ako uzme lovcem na a2 onda skakač c6 napada damu i lovca na e7 i osvaja figuru. Crni to sprječava brzim napadom. A ako na c2 pješak uzme na a2, bijeli igra kralj a1 u kutu. Kralj je siguran, a crni sad ne može Lb3 jer pješak na c2 čuva polje.
7:50 f3
19:21 Be3
9:22 Never play Ng4 if your other knight isn't on c6. If you first develop your Knight to c6, and white still has Bishop on e3... then go for Ng4. Bishop can't go back. If it does, Qb6. Targeting the Knight on d4 twice now, if the Knight moves. Checkmate on Qxf2. Hence why in the other video of your sicilian I said you play f3 to prevent the Ng4 and stop that trade of knight for the bishop. Specially if the Black's Knight is on c6.
Warning, idiot commenting: I love watching your vids stoned, dude. Your visuals are awesome. I love watching the tactics and strategies flow...
the f5 draw is forced draw I think 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.f5 Nc6 11.fxe6 fxe6 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Be2 Be7 14.O-O O-O 15.Rb3 Qc5+ 16.Be3 Qe5 17.Bd4 Qa5 18.Bb6 Qe4 Bd4= do you know a way to avoid this ?? also black can play a delayed poison pawn with 7...h6 8.Bh4 Qb6
Black can also play h5 after f3 to prevent g4 if white tries h3 then h4, I've seen MVL games in this line and most of the time black doesn't castle. But it requires some expert like MVL to go for such sharp variation.
Ravi Rawat not immediately after 6.f3, check your database. Only 6 games played, none by super strong players like MVL. It can be played later after white kicks the knight away with e5. Even GMGinger wouldn't set Harry loose quite so soon.
When white prepares to castle Queen side
28:39 White doesn't does Black a favor it loses due to Qxg5+
Excellent lesson for a noob like me!
Thanks Jake:)
And when Black captures on d5, it's always with the bishop, or else Black has a "Hanging Bishop" for White to kick.
32:55 If you dont play queen to B6 you might be considered a coward sometimes lol
Hello, thanks for all the excellent videos. Could you provide your name, please
My name is stjepan. And thank you:)