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.
Thanks for the comment and the analysis... It seems like after 7.Qf3 Qb6?! they can just castle queenside and the Queen is just blocking the b pawn and it's not better than on c7
Thank you .Great lesson
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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.
Thanks for the comment and the analysis...
It seems like after 7.Qf3 Qb6?! they can just castle queenside and the Queen is just blocking the b pawn and it's not better than on c7
nice this thaught me alot!
Thanks for letting me know!
Good introduction!
Glad you think so!