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The complex Najdorf

When choosing an opening repertoire, it is common to consider two types of variations. One is usually a solid opening, like 1...e5 against 1.e4, with plenty of strategical ideas and quiet paths of play. However, there are of course days when you want to play for a win with Black, when you want to bear down on your opponent’s position with a potentially crushing attack. The Najdorf is perfect for just such occasions – and it’s no coincidence that Garry Kasparov played it the most out of all the variations in the Sicilian – the opening served him well throughout his brilliant career. I myself have played it with both colours, but even I discover more to its endless depths every day! Strategy, combinations, attack and defence, sacrifices and marvellous manoeuvres – exciting chess is all about the Najdorf!

• Video running time: 6 hours 31 min (English)
• With interactive training including video feedback
• Extra: 50 Model games and full analysis of variations by GM Victor Bologan
• Including CB 12 Reader

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This is what is delivered:

  • Fritztrainer App for Windows
  • Available as download or on DVD
  • Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
  • Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
  • Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
  • Sample games as a ChessBase database.

That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:

  • Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
  • Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
  • Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
  • Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
  • Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
  • Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.

Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!

  • The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
  • Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
  • Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
  • Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
  • Replay training
  • LiveBook active
  • All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
  • Assisted Analysis
  • Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

Sample video

Contents

  • 01: Introduction [05:40]
  • Najdorf: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6
  • 02: Video 1 6.h3 e5 7.Nde2 h5 8.Bg5/g3 - Video Analysis [19:25]
  • 03: Video 2 6.f4 e5 7.Nf3 Nbd7 8.a4/Bd3/Bc4 - Video Analysis [18:43]
  • 04: Video 3 6.g3 e5 7.Nb3/Nde2 - Video Analysis [13:30]
  • 05: Video 4 6.Bc4 e6 7.a4/a3/Be3/Bg5 - Video Analysis [15:03]
  • 06: Video 5 6.Bc4 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Bb3 0-0 9.f4 b5 10.e5/f5/Qf3/Be3 - Video Analysis [14:20]
  • 07: Video 6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Nbd7 8.Bg5/0-0/Qf3/f4 - Video Analysis [17:46]
  • 08: Video 7 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qf3 h6 8.Be3/Bh4/Bxf6/Bd2 - Video Analysis [07:56]
  • 09: Video 8 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qe2 Be7 8.f4/h4/0-0-0 - Video Analysis [08:11]
  • 10: Video 9 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4/Bxf6 - Video Analysis [11:00]
  • 11: Video 10 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4 Qb6 9.Qd2 Qxb2 10.Rb1 Qa3 11.e5/f5/Be2/Bxf6 - Video Analysis [23:39]
  • 12: Video 11 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Bg5/g4 - Video Analysis [08:08]
  • 13: Video 12 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Be3 Be6 9.Nd5/Qd2/f4/Qd3 - Video Analysis [14:54]
  • 14: Video 13 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.a4 Be6 10.Bf3/f4 - Video Analysis [16:41]
  • 15: Video 14 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Re1 Be6 10.Bf3/Bf1 - Video Analysis [12:08]
  • 16: Video 15 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Kh1 Nc6 10.f3/f4/Be3 - Video Analysis [21:12]
  • 17: Video 16 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Qd3 Be6 different 10th moves - Video Analysis [07:47]
  • 18: Video 17 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Be3 Be6 10.a4/f4/f3 - Video Analysis [10:51]
  • 19: Video 18 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Be3 Be6 10.Qd2 Nbd7 11.a4 Rc8 12.a5/f3 - Video Analysis [11:04]
  • 20: Video 19 6.Be3 e5 7.Nf3 Be7 8.Bc4 0-0 9.0-0 Nc6 different 10th moves - Video Analysis [20:49]
  • 21: Video 20 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f4 exf4 9.Bxf4 Nc6 10.Qe2/Qd2 - Video Analysis [13:32]
  • 22: Video 21 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.f4 b5 10.f5 Bc4 11.0-0-0 Be7 12.Kb1/h3/g4 - Video Analysis [11:44]
  • 23: Video 22 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.h3 Be7 different 9th moves - Video Analysis [16:47]
  • 24: Video 23 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.g4 b5 10.g5 Nh5 11.Qd2/a4/Nd5 - Video Analysis [10:42]
  • 25: Video 24 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.g4 b5 10.a4 b4 11.Nxd5 Bxd5 12.exd5 Nb6 13.Bxb6 Qxb6 14.a5 Qb7 15.Bc4/Ra4/0-0-0 - Video Analysis [13:27]
  • 26: Video 25 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Nbd7 9.Qd2 b5 10.0-0-0 Be7 11.g4 b4 12.Nd5/Ne2/Na4 - Video Analysis [17:49]
  • Test positions
  • 27: Position 1 [02:28]
  • 28: Position 2 [03:22]
  • 29: Position 3 [03:20]
  • 30: Position 4 [02:56]
  • 31: Position 5 [02:42]
  • 32: Position 6 [03:49]
  • 33: Position 7 [02:17]
  • 34: Position 8 [02:17]
  • 35: Position 9 [02:56]
  • 36: Position 10 [02:58]
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Najdorf Variation

It is astonishing that today’s most important system in the Sicilian starts with the unlikely move 5...a6. The move by the rook’s pawn does nothing for the development of the pieces, so why then does Black play it? Well, it is almost also useful to prevent White’s minor pieces from getting on the b5-square, and in addition it prepares a counter-attack on the queenside with …b7-b5. In certain circumstances there is the threat of ...b4 driving away the Nc3, which puts the e4-pawn under pressure e4. Seen like this, 5...a6 is a preparation for the attack on the white centre! The great rise of the Najdorf Variation – named after the Polish-Argentinian grandmaster Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997) – began in the 1950s. World champions Petrosian, Tal and Fischer played this opening, and Kasparov too was feared because of his precise treatment of the sharp Najdorf lines.

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