Chess openings: Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 (B95)

Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 (B95)
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Bg5 e6

Number of games in database: 497
Years covered: 1934 to 2013
Overall record:
   White wins 32.8%
   Black wins 44.1%
   Draws 23.1%

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PRACTITIONERS

With the White Pieces

With the Black Pieces

Bozidar Ivanovic		17 games
H Van Riemsdijk		8 games
Enrico Paoli		7 games

Vladimir A Savon		7 games
Miguel Najdorf		6 games
Robert James Fischer		5 games

NOTABLE GAMES [what is this?]

White Wins

Black Wins

Bronstein vs Najdorf, 1954

Nezhmetdinov vs E Paoli, 1954

Pinter vs E Ungureanu, 1976

E Nash vs Fischer, 1956

Parma vs C Bielicki, 1959

M Mrdja vs Mecking, 2006

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Game Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening
1. Rauzer vs V Makogonov 1-0 57 1934 USSR Championship 1934/35 B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

2. Konstantinopolsky vs Akshanov 1-0 51 1934 URS corr B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

3. Rauzer vs Nenarokov 0-1 19 1936 Tournament B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

4. Book vs Najdorf 1-0 31 1937 Stockholm ol ;HCL 44 B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

5. E Gerstenfeld vs Pirc 0-1 46 1938 Lodz B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

6. C Poulsen vs Najdorf 0-1 73 1939 Buenos Aires ol f-A ;HCL 37 B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

7. Pinkus vs M Green 1-0 58 1939 USA-ch B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

8. Lilienthal vs Kotov 0-1 40 1942 Moscow-ch B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

9. Pachman vs F Bohatirchuk 0-1 39 1944 Prague, Czechoslovakia B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

10. P Romanovsky vs Kotov 0-1 33 1945 USSR Championship B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

11. Kamyshov vs Kotov 0-1 41 1946 Ch Moscow B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

12. C Hounie Fleurquin vs L Bauza 1-0 44 1946 Mar del Plata ARG B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

13. R Sanguineti vs E Reinhardt 0-1 33 1946 Mar del Plata ARG B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

14. H Hohlfeld vs L Roedl 0-1 36 1947 Lueneburg GER B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

15. A Gulbrandsen vs M Kupferstich 1-0 40 1947 Lagkamp: Norge-Danmark B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

16. M Monticelli vs Najdorf 0-1 44 1948 Venice B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

17. Szily vs Pachman 0-1 90 1949 17 B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

18. Gligoric vs C Kottnauer ½-½ 29 1949 Venice B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

19. N Bergqvist vs B Rabar 0-1 34 1950 Dubrovnik olm B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

20. A Liebstein vs Julio Bolbochan 0-1 70 1951 Mar del Plata (Argentina) B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

21. E Gereben vs Smyslov 0-1 52 1952 Budapest B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

22. Suetin vs G Ilivitsky ½-½ 32 1952 USSR Championship B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

23. Ragozin vs Petrosian 0-1 40 1953 Tournament B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

24. Szabo vs V Ciocaltea ½-½ 41 1953 Bucharest B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

25. Bronstein vs Najdorf 1-0 42 1954 Buenos Aires (Argentina) B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6

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Jan-30-05		Backward Development: 7.g4!? was played in a competition game I played last Thursday. I sat in the think tank for about 20 minutes thinking about this move, and i think it's all right. White is threatening to put the bishop on g2 where it will clamp down on d5 as well as put some prophylaxis on touching the b-pawn, unless you play 7...b5 like I did. My opponent didn't play very well, but it's an interesting move. any comments?

Mar-27-05		Backward Development: I guess not. :(

Mar-28-05		hintza: <Backward Development> Here are some games for you with 7.g4 courtesy of http://www.chesslive.de/: [Event "Mar del Plata op"] [Site "Mar del Plata"] [Date "1972.??.??"] [Round "4"] [White "Pelikan,Jorge"] [Black "Vidal,Ramon"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B95"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.g4 Be7 8.Be3 Nc6 9.g5 Nd7 10.h4 Qc7 11.f4 Nc5 12.Nxc6 Qxc6 13.Bg2 Bd7 14.Bd4 Bf8 15.Qe2 Na4 16.Nd5 0-0-0 17.Bxg7 Rg8 18.Nb4 Qb6 19.Bxf8 Qxb4+ 20.c3 Qxb2 21.Qxb2 Nxb2 22.Be7 Rde8 23.Bxd6 Bb5 24.Bf1 Bc6 25.Rh2 Na4 26.e5 Nxc3 27.Rc1 Nb5 28.Rd2 Rd8 1/2 [Event "Mar del Plata op"] [Site "Mar del Plata"] [Date "1972.??.??"] [Round "8"] [White "Pelikan,Jorge"] [Black "Wexler,Bernardo"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B95"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.g4 Be7 8.Be3 h5 9.gxh5 Nxh5 10.Be2 Bg5 11.Bxh5 Bxe3 12.Bxf7+ Kxf7 13.Qf3+ Qf6 14.Qxe3 e5 15.Nf3 Bg4 16.Ng5+ Kg6 17.h4 Qf4 18.Qxf4 exf4 19.f3 Bc8 20.0-0-0 Nc6 21.Rxd6+ Kh5 22.Nd5 Rf8 23.c3 a5 24.Nh7 Rf7 25.Rg1 Bd7 26.Rdg6 Rh8 27.R1g5+ Kxh4 28.Rg1 Rxh7 29.Rh1+ Bh3 30.Rg4+ 1-0 [Event "ICCF email"] [Site "ICCF corr"] [Date "1994.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Claridge,John Bleddyn"] [Black "Hebert,Andre"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B95"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.g4 h6 8.h4 hxg5 0-1 [Event "IECC M email"] [Site "IECC email"] [Date "2002.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Krklec,Daniel"] [Black "Nenciulescu,Silviu Catalin"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B95"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.g4 Be7 8.Be3 d5 9.e5 Nfd7 10.f4 Nc6 11.Qf3 Bb4 12.Bf2 Qa5 13.Nb3 Qc7 14.0-0-0 f6 15.Nd4 Nxd4 16.Bxd4 fxe5 17.fxe5 Bc5 18.Bxc5 Qxc5 19.g5 d4 20.Ne4 Qxe5 21.Bg2 Nc5 22.Rhf1 Nxe4 23.Qf7+ Kd8 24.Bxe4 Bd7 25.Kb1 Rc8 26.Rfe1 Rc7 27.Bxb7 1/2

Mar-28-05		Backward Development: thanks a lot Hintza! I'll have to get to analyzing those at some point.

Mar-29-05		hintza: <Backward Development> You're welcome, although how someone loses in 8 moves in an email correspondence game is beyond me...

Mar-29-05		Backward Development: typo perhaps? having the analysis board upside down? Albeit, it's still rather tacky to have an 8 move loss in postal chess in your record, regardless of the circumstance.

Mar-29-05		Doctor Who: Honza Cervenka explained on another game (I forget which one) that correspondence players sometimes use a weird notation where moves are given numbers, and it's very possible to make the mistake of writing down the wrong number. That's why you sometimes see top correspondence players make horrible moves that a class E player wouldn't make.

Mar-29-05		Basti81: the "weird" notation works as far as I know like this, both ranks and files are nummerated from 1-8 e.g. the square a1 is in this notation 11 the square c2 is 32 so a najdorf sic. would look like something similar to this. 1.5254 (e2e4) 3735 (c7c5) 2.7163 4746 3.4244 3544 4.6344 7866 5.2133 1716

Mar-29-05		Backward Development: aha... very tricky. In Burgess' book "Chess", he has a very interesting section regarding chess notation. The many styles include: <example is the scandinavian defense accepted, 1.e4 d5 2.exd5> Standard Algebraic<1.e4 d5 2.exd5> Long Algebraic<1.e2-e4 d7-d5 2.e4xd5> Abbreviated algebraic<1.e4 d5 2.ed> Computer Notation<1.E2E4 D7D5 2.E4D5> Correspondence chess notation<1.5254 4745 2.5445> descriptive notation<1.P-K4 P-Q5 2.PxP> "Greco 1656" notation <White's king's pawn two houses. Black's Queen pawn two houses. White's King's pawn takes the queen's pawn.> "Bertin 1735" notation<White, the king's pawn, two squares. Black, Queen's pawn, two squares. White, the pawn, takes it.> "Stamma 1745" notation<pe4 pd5 pd5> Phew! Thankfully, notation has advanced quite a bit since then!

Dec-31-05		Ludamad: black's percentage is impressive!

Dec-31-05		WannaBe: <Ludamad> =) Yes, it is! One of my favorite opening to use as black.

Feb-06-06		themindset: black's percentage is high because this opening represents non-main line responses by white.

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