The Najdorf's Aura of Invincibility - CRUSHED

I'm not a sicilian player, so i don't know the lines very much, but i do know that kasparov played it quite a bit. He even made a dvd about it. If you were to check out his games when he played the najdorf it might give you some nice ideas.

It's not that I don't know the ideas or how to play it. I do and I have Kasparov's DVDs as well as a book on it. I'm just saying that some positions, like the one above are incredibly unclear and complex. No amount of study can make such positions simple. This isn't a complaint, it's a fact and I often like this.

Originally posted by exigentsky
...to escape the Maroczy bind...

LOL. Well, it's really not a good response to virtually any other Sicilian other than the Accelerated Dragon, Kalashnikov and some Kan setups. You could try to force it with f3 instead of Nc3 or with Qxd4, but it really isn't effective.