How To Play Najdorf Variation (Sicilian Defense) | Chess Openings For Black 

Thank you .Great lesson

Good introduction!

Thank you for this! The Najdorf is my favorite opening as Black against 1.e4. Against 6.Bg5 e6, White's main moves are 7.f4, 7.Qf3, and 7.Bd3. In the 7.f4 line, Stockfish really doesn't like 7...Be7 very much and believes the "poisoned pawn" line, 7...Qb6, equalizes for Black. What may be a bit confusing is that in the 7.Qf3 line, 7...Qb6 is pretty bad and instead Stockfish says Black should play 7...Nbd7. Hard for me to understand the differences. A great example of the "poisoned pawn" line is the game Ivanchuk-Kasparov, Linares, 1990, where both sides played a virtually flawless game for the first 34 moves.