L'étude et la pratique de la Najdorf enseignent plusieurs qualités essentielles pour progresser aux échecs, notamment la lutte pour l'initiative, la jeu de défense, ou encore le jeu sur une couleur de cases. Le GM Yannick Pelletier vous explique ces notions méthodiquement.
Tactic Toolbox Meran Variation
In interactive format IM Robert Ris offers you a lot of exercises, including hints and advice that help you to know key tactical patterns of this variation to play it with success.
| Rang | Joueur | J | g | A.g | A.p | p | Pts | |
| 1. | Carlsen | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 10 |
| 2. | Caruana | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8½ |
| 3. | Nakamura | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 |
| 4. | Ding | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6½ |
| 5. | MVL | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8½ |
| 6. | Nepomniachtchi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 7. | Firouzja | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4½ |
| 8. | Giri | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
How to play the Sicilian Defence!
The continuous stream of new ideas in the Sicilian makes 1..c5 the most popular answer to 1.e4. On this DVD I do give an introduction to the most important Sicilian systems.
