Andriasyan: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian - An Uncompromising Repertoire for Black Klassiker and it often keeps even

and it often keeps even masters on their toes and tricks them - the knight

In striving for perfection Timman seeks to discover the truth of each game: to provide not just a wonderful annotated game

Grandmaster Ilya Smirin is a three-time Israeli Champion

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Black is hunting the enemy king and this gives him a psychological edge in practical play

Andriasyan: Winning with the Najdorf Sicilian - An Uncompromising Repertoire for Black Klassiker and it often keeps evenThe Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence continues to be extremely popular. Advocated by great fighting champions like Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer, this flexible, wonderfully rich system offers one of the best ways for Black to play for a win. Young Armenian grandmaster Zaven Andriasyan has developed and successfully employed his very own attacking repertoire for Black in the Najdorf. In this book he points out ways to avoid the most