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Highlights from the Rybka Aquarium book
26 February 2009
Sicilian Najdorf: 6. Bg5 running out of favour?In 2007 the sharp 6. Bg5 in the Sicilian Najdorf featured a nice comeback. White players delivered some heavy blows at the very popular Poisoned Pawn variation, black’s most respected line against 6. Bg5. Two years later black has been able to come up with 3 reliable answers against white’s most dangerous plan: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.e5 h6 11.Bh4 dxe5 12.fxe5![]() Sicilian Najdorf: English attack 6. Be3 e5With the danger of 6. Bg5 fading away, the English attack featuring 6. Be3 is again becoming white’s main choice to combat the Najdorf. The Aquarium book is paying a lot of attention to this line, with numerous new ideas and original Rybka analysis. One of black’s most popular replies is 6. Be3 e5. After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 O-O 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.g5, here are some of the interesting lines in the Aquarium book:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sicilian Najdorf: English attack 6. Be3 e6Black’s other main move in the English attack is 6. Be3 e6. An overview of the ideas covered in the Aquarium book: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 Nbd7 leading to the following position:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Semi-Slav Meran: Anand’s choiceIn the Semi-Slav defence 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 white players have turned their attention to the Meran defence again, since 5.Bg5 h6! appears fully satisfactory for black. In the FIDE WC 2008 match Anand-Kramnik the Indian grandmaster came up with some new fresh idea’s. Following 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 axb5 12.exf6 gxf6 13.O-O Qb6 14.Qe2, Anand introduced the novelty 14… Bb7!? leading to the position in the diagram:![]() Semi-Slav Meran: the enterprising 7.g4!?Another sharp idea in the Semi-Slav defence is 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4!?, when we reach the following position:![]() Sicilian Sveshnikov: black is OKThe positional variation is still one of the most popular tries against the Sicilian Sveshnikov. After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 O-O 12.Nc2 Bg5 13.a4 bxa4 14.Rxa4 a5 15.Bc4 Rb8 16.b3 Kh8 17.Nce3 g6 the agressive move 18.h4!? is the critical line: 18… Bxh4 19.g3 Bg5 20.f4 exf4 21.gxf4 Bh4+ 22.Kd2 leads to the position in the diagram:![]() Ruy Lopez Zaitsev: gaining in popularityWith the Marshall still being one of the most popular Ruy Lopez lines at top GM level these days, the complicated Zaitsev variation seems to be making a nice comeback. Without having to defend a slightly worse ending (as in the Marshall) black goes for an unbalanced position, with many dynamic chances. White’s most agressive try since the Kasparov-Karpov matches is still 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a4!?, where currently attention is focussed on the line 12… h6 13.Bc2 exd4 14.cxd4 Nb4 15.Bb1 c5 16.d5 Nd7 17.Ra3 c4 (Karpov mainly favoured 17… f5).![]() |
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