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gwnn Senior Member Offline Posts: 472 Joined: 03/21/11	Re: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian Reply #6 - 05/22/13 at 15:26:25	Post Tools	Print Post
	3. It doesn't fit with the book title


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MarkG Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 103 Joined: 01/30/08	Re: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian Reply #5 - 05/22/13 at 15:22:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	Bibs wrote on 05/22/13 at 13:22:26: Yeah, agree with both. Simply not a line for amateurs. Have had a look at the line, out of hobbyist interest, but wouldn't go near it OTB. Same as with Botvinnik Semi-Slav. Just bonkers bits-being-chucked-about-with-Houdini-checking chess. Agreed. There are a couple of other reasons why I think this is not a suitable choice for a repertoire based book: 1. The amount of space required to cover it adequately is way out of proportion to its usefulness. You will actually get this on the board very infrequently at amateur level. 2. This is a variation where entire subtrees can be refuted overnight. If one happens to be the repertoire choice then you are out of luck.


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Bibs God Member Offline Posts: 2338 Joined: 10/24/06	Re: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian Reply #4 - 05/22/13 at 13:22:26	Post Tools	Print Post
	RdC wrote on 05/22/13 at 11:06:16: ghenghisclown wrote on 05/22/13 at 08:51:57: The Poisoned Pawn?? That's a turn-off. That's the recommended line against 6. Bg5. Presumably the traditional mess with ideas going back to games of the 1950s and 1960s. It isn't the newer treatment of playing h6 first. A general impression of the Poisoned Pawn would be that it may well be playable, but you have to do a lot of work with a chess engine to uncover hidden tactics and then be able to memorise a chess tree to take advantage over the board. Yeah, agree with both. Simply not a line for amateurs. Have had a look at the line, out of hobbyist interest, but wouldn't go near it OTB. Same as with Botvinnik Semi-Slav. Just bonkers bits-being-chucked-about-with-Houdini-checking chess.


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RdC God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 868 Joined: 05/17/08	Re: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian Reply #3 - 05/22/13 at 11:06:16	Post Tools	Print Post
	ghenghisclown wrote on 05/22/13 at 08:51:57: The Poisoned Pawn?? That's a turn-off. That's the recommended line against 6. Bg5. Presumably the traditional mess with ideas going back to games of the 1950s and 1960s. It isn't the newer treatment of playing h6 first. A general impression of the Poisoned Pawn would be that it may well be playable, but you have to do a lot of work with a chess engine to uncover hidden tactics and then be able to memorise a chess tree to take advantage over the board.


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ghenghisclown God Member Offline Pedicare Vestri Latin Posts: 1022 Location: HollyWeird Joined: 07/19/06 Gender:	Re: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian Reply #2 - 05/22/13 at 08:51:57	Post Tools	Print Post
	The Poisoned Pawn?? That's a turn-off.

	"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
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gwnn Senior Member Offline Posts: 472 Joined: 03/21/11	Re: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian Reply #1 - 05/22/13 at 08:35:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1360889511 also covers the book. This book seems to be a similar repertoire to Daniel King's DVD, other than the Poisoned Pawn.


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Michael Wilde Full Member Offline Posts: 163 Location: Santa Rosa, California Joined: 02/22/12	Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian 05/21/13 at 23:53:46	Post Tools	Print Post
	Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian An Uncompromising Repertoire for Black by Zaven Andriasyan Noticed it is now available through NIC. Anyone have this yet. is the ...a5 line the new trend against the English?

	"Improvement begins at the edge of your comfort zone."-Jonathan Rowson
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