Najdorf Powerbook 2015

Anyone playing the Najdorf Variation is treading in the footsteps of Fischer, Kasparov, Anand, Gelfand and Topalov. In recent years there has been an enormous amount of development in this opening, driven by young players such as Vachier-Lagrave, Wojtaszek, Giri and Dominguez-Perez. These days new ideas in the opening are conceived above all with the support of engines. And it is not rare for tomorrow's theory to start with an "Engine against Engine" contest in the computer chess engine room on playchess.com. The new Najdorf Powerbook 2015 combines both: the latest state of theory based on 93 000 master games with more than 1,726,000 high class Najdorf games from the engine room on playchess.com. There 6.Be3 has long since taken over from the move preferred by humans, 6.Bg5. One of the main variations continues as follows: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 (if you do not like 6.Be3 Ng4, you can also start with 6.f3) 8...Be7 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.0-0-0 0-0 11.g4 b5 12.g5 b4