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The move
6.Qd3 has become one of the critical tests for Black in the Sicilian Najdorf. In Wijk aan Zee earlier this year Jorden van Foreest won his crucial last round game against Nils Grandelius thanks to great preparation and a spectacular knight sacrifice in the middlegame (21.Nb5!).
This week the young Dutchman got another chance to employ this line against Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Although he lost that game quickly, his position looked quite promising right out of the opening. The next day Vladimir Fedoseev tested the Polish player again in this fashionable line, and what a game it was!
In this episode of the Fast & Furious you ll learn about White s key ideas and the latest developments within this branch of the Najdorf.
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Trusting your hand
A fortnight or so ago, my desktop computer started to get rather grumpy, making increasingly loud harrumphing sounds. A week later it began to go on strike, with the power cutting out completely, apparently at random.
Back in the day, I even once changed a disk drive in a computer, but nowadays I’m rather phobic about playing with them. My wife heroically opened the case and took a (cold) hair dryer to the interior, clearing out a vast quantity of dust, but the problem persisted and the old codger it’s more than four years old which makes it heaven knows how ancient in human years is currently being ministered to by a nice man down the road, who has confirmed that it needs a new power supply and is testing for any other ailments.
by Robert Ris 1/29/2021 – In this week s show, well-known Dutch trainer Robert Ris takes a close look at a new concept in the King s Indian Defense that Fabiano Caruana used to beat Radoslaw Wojtaszek in round 9 of the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. | Fast and Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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by Robert Ris 1/21/2021 – In this week s show, well-known Dutch trainer Robert Ris pays tribute to the legendary Grandmaster and writer Lubomir Kavalek, who passed away January 18, 2021, at the age of 77. | Fast and Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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The Gothenburg Variation in the Najdorf
The 6th of September 1955 in Gothenburg will be remembered in chess history as the day when three Soviet players (Keres, Spassky and Geller) played against three Argentinian players (Najdorf, Pilnik and Panno) and reached exactly the same variation of the Sicilian Najdorf with
6.Bg5!
After the moves
6.e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Qf3 h6 9.Bh4 g5 10.fxg5 Nfd7, Black didn t get the chance to gain a positional grip on the dark squares as in all three games White went for the spectacular double piece sacrifice
11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Qh5 Kf8 13.Bb5!?. The Soviet players won their mini-match convincingly by a 3-0 score, but three years later Bobby Fischer improved Black s play with