Heya! I recently-ish started playing 1.e4 again, and, following "Modernized: The Open Sicilian", I chose the Adams Attack (6.h3) as my weapon against the Najdorf. I'm having some decent success with it; even when forgetting the concrete moves, I can for the most part follow the general plan of g2-g4 against ..e7-e6 and playing around the d5-square against ..e7-e5, both of which lead to positions which I'd at least deem easier to play for White than Black. That's when I stumbled on this 6. ..h5 move - which, surprisingly to me, has almost never been played in my database, and isn't mentioned at all in the book. It doesn't look that ridiculous to me - if White attempts to transpose back to "normal" lines via 7.Bg5, for one Black would have avoided the g3-lines (6.h3 e5 7.Nde2 h5 8.g3), for two Black can play 7. ..e6 and get an entirely different type of position, where neither of my "autopilot plans" works anymore (h5 stops g2-g4, and e6 stops ganging up on the d5-square). I presume the reason that this isn't very popular is that White gets to transpose into whichever Najdorf variation he likes, except with h2-h3 and ..h7-h5 inserted, which I can see benefitting White in the end - but the question now would be: Which one is best? My general Najdorf knowledge is very limited (As a junior I played Bc4/English Attack stuff without knowing anything; then I switched from the Closed Sicilian to 1.f4 to 1.c4, and pretty much only really came back to it with the Modernized Book, so I don't know much beyond 6.h3), so I have no idea where the insertion of those two moves would prove the most favourable (or whether I'm missing something in general, and rather than 'transposing' to elsewhere, I should just play move X and win). Any ideas what you would play on move 7 here (or if 7.Bg5, what on move 8 after 7. ..e6)?
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