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Bocajaka Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 122 Joined: 07/15/08	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #14 - 08/11/08 at 16:37:49	Post Tools	Print Post
	MarinFan wrote on 08/11/08 at 14:43:28: It recommends Bg5. There are different Authors for each variation, so not a big consistency between all recommendations, but each one is quite dangerous. Bye John S In that case that's a big downside to that book in my opinion.


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MarinFan Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 430 Location: Leeds Joined: 04/04/06 Gender:	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #13 - 08/11/08 at 14:43:28	Post Tools	Print Post
	It recommends Bg5. There are different Authors for each variation, so not a big consistency between all recommendations, but each one is quite dangerous. Bye John S


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Bocajaka Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 122 Joined: 07/15/08	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #12 - 08/11/08 at 12:51:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	MarinFan wrote on 08/11/08 at 08:22:51: Hello, The position after 10Bd4 is considered in the "Safest Sicillian " book, which there are several other threads about. It is a repertoire book for black, one of the best ones in recent years. White can certainly cause problems in this line. I think the idea of 5.Bd3 is to keep option of playing c4 or Nc3, but in practise it is a lot easier for white to choose between c4 or Nc3 straightaway. The experts v sicillian book recommends 5.Nc3. There are threads about that too. Bye John S Thank's for that info. What does the experts vs. sicilian suggest against the Najdorf? Personally I play this Nc3, Be2 because I want to be consistent with my Najdorf repertoire.


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MarinFan Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 430 Location: Leeds Joined: 04/04/06 Gender:	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #11 - 08/11/08 at 08:22:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hello, The position after 10Bd4 is considered in the "Safest Sicillian " book, which there are several other threads about. It is a repertoire book for black, one of the best ones in recent years. White can certainly cause problems in this line. I think the idea of 5.Bd3 is to keep option of playing c4 or Nc3, but in practise it is a lot easier for white to choose between c4 or Nc3 straightaway. The experts v sicillian book recommends 5.Nc3. There are threads about that too. Bye John S


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kylemeister God Member Offline Posts: 4904 Location: USA Joined: 10/24/05	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #10 - 08/10/08 at 15:54:22	Post Tools	Print Post
	What we have here is a failure to communicate. By "equalish" I didn't mean "drawish"; I meant that the chances seem to be close to equal (I was speaking primarily of the Be2 Taimanov/Paulsen with ...Qxc8) based on the practice of recent years, as opposed to in the past when White was definitely thought to have some advantage. 5. Bd3 has long had the reputation of being the most challenging move against the Kan/Paulsen (which is not to say that it's definitely better than the alternatives or definitely leads to advantage for White).


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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10756 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #9 - 08/10/08 at 10:50:09	Post Tools	Print Post
	I don't think 5.Be2 is "equalish" at all and you don't have to be a GM to understand why. Just look at the pawns. There are no open lines on which exchanges can take place. White has a dynamic dominance in the centre (pawn e4), Black a numeric (two centre pawns vs one). We can expect a fight all over the board. You can't get it less "equalish", can you? The same for 5.Bd3. One thing that makes almost any Open Sicilian "non-drawish" is the several options that both sides face at almost every move. For one thing it is impossible to state that 5.Nc3 and 6.Be2 is more or less "drawish" than 5.Bd3. It's about looking for the optimal piece arrangement and if that was known the Open Sicilian would have been solved.

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Bocajaka Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 122 Joined: 07/15/08	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #8 - 08/10/08 at 08:56:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	kylemeister wrote on 08/09/08 at 22:17:20: 8. Na4 is certainly the best. My impression is that this line seems to be, typically for a main line, something like balanced between "=" and "+=". Can't say I'm up on particular recent games though. By the way, this is sometimes called a Paulsen. Some people consider that it's only a Taimanov when Black plays ...Nge7. It's all a bit confusing. Is 5.Bd3 less equalish?


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kylemeister God Member Offline Posts: 4904 Location: USA Joined: 10/24/05	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #7 - 08/09/08 at 22:17:20	Post Tools	Print Post
	8. Na4 is certainly the best. My impression is that this line seems to be, typically for a main line, something like balanced between "=" and "+=". Can't say I'm up on particular recent games though. By the way, this is sometimes called a Paulsen. Some people consider that it's only a Taimanov when Black plays ...Nge7. It's all a bit confusing.


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Bocajaka Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 122 Joined: 07/15/08	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #6 - 08/09/08 at 21:49:46	Post Tools	Print Post
	kylemeister wrote on 08/09/08 at 21:42:08: Well, it's a mainline position in the Taimanov. Admin should probably change the title on this thread so that not more people fall into the same trap Does this mean that the whole system with 6.Be2 is "equalish". I can not say myself from looking at the position if this is the case or not. In that case, should white perhaps play something else than 9.Na4? What are some recent games in this whole variation btw?


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kylemeister God Member Offline Posts: 4904 Location: USA Joined: 10/24/05	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #5 - 08/09/08 at 21:42:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	Well, it's a mainline position in the Taimanov. 13. e5 used to be standard, and is still a major alternative. This whole line involving ...Qxc8 used to be thought to just be good for White, but the view has shifted in recent years to equalish.


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Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2
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It's actually a Kan or Paulsen, not a Taimanov.

I blame it on the beer!

Black almost always continues 6...Nc6 instead of 6...Nf6 but I can't see the reason for this. I suppose black's plan with ...Qc7 is to prevent e5 so as to play Nf6 some time so why not emmediately. In any case it seems to transpose.

The only OTB game that I have played in this variation continued 6...Nf6 7.0-0 h5 which to me looks very strange but my opponent who was fairly strong (almost 2100) obviously had some plan although I think that he may have been unprepared and played the Kan just against me. First of all he will play ...Ng4 on Be3. So I continued 8.f4 Bc5 9.e5 Nc6 10.Be3 Ng4 11.Bxg4 hxg4 12.Ne4 Bf8 and I was clearly better.

So a general rule is probably that black will have a difficult time if he lets white play e5.

The most played continuation according to chessgames.com is:

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be2 Nc6 7. O-O Nf6 8. Be3 Bb4 9. Na4 Be7

after 9...Nxe4 the theory seems to be the game M Djerkovic - R Huang, 2007 10.c4 Be7 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.Nb6 Rb8 13.c5

10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Nb6 Rb8 12.Nxc8 Qxc8 13.Bd4 white has the bishop pair. What are your thougths on this position?

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Ptero Full Member Offline When all else fails, read the instructions. Posts: 220 Joined: 03/22/06	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #3 - 08/09/08 at 16:02:48	Post Tools	Print Post
	Bocajaka wrote on 08/08/08 at 18:12:51: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be2 1)Is there a name for this particular variation and 2)are there any problems with it 3)are there any books that advocate this variation for white? There is a comprehensive CD from Chessbase by Austrian IM Norbert Sommerbauer on the Paulsen. It has some good coverage of this line (and others), but not necessarily from White's point of view.


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kylemeister God Member Offline Posts: 4904 Location: USA Joined: 10/24/05	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #2 - 08/09/08 at 15:41:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	It's actually a Kan or Paulsen, not a Taimanov. 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be2 is certainly a line (it gets several columns in ECO, for instance). Don't know of a name for it or a book advocating it. There's also Be2 on the fifth move (waiting for ...Nf6, so to speak), which has been played by e.g. Geller and Volokitin. These Be2 lines can of course transpose to a classical sort of Taimanov or Scheveningen.


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CheckMate Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 164 Location: Uppsala Joined: 07/18/06 Gender:	Re: Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Reply #1 - 08/09/08 at 13:04:24	Post Tools	Print Post
	The only book I know about is Burgess' The Taimanov Sicilian, which treats the entire Taimanov from both sides. It's probably dated now, but I haven't seen it so I know how good it is.


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Bocajaka Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 122 Joined: 07/15/08	Taimanov 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 08/08/08 at 18:12:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be2 1)Is there a name for this particular variation and 2)are there any problems with it 3)are there any books that advocate this variation for white?


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