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wanna see why I don't play the sicilian?

wanna see why I don't play the sicilian?

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Paul,
6...Nf6 was better move followed by a6. This will have solved most of your problems.

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Originally posted by mateulose
This all illustrates why the Dragon SUCKS! Weak d5 outpost, white Bc4 strongpoint, waste time doing non tempo pawn moves to fianchetto bishops, perhabs the need to sacrefice a rook, etc. . . You need a more SOLID Sicilian. I'm sure you read up the Dragon and became a huge fan of it, because of it's hee-haw Dragon vs Yugoslav or Keres attack games, an att ...[text shortened]... can play the Maroczy Bind against the accelerated dragon, and this is a real black killer IMHO.
okay then, you want to crush my sicillian dragon? i'd like to see you try, you will see my challenge shortly...

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I thought that if you played e6 you transposed to Schveningen. You need to develop the KB somehow. g6 is Dragon, e6 is Shveningen, e5 is Najdorf I thought.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=B85

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I thought that if you played e6 you transposed to Schveningen. You need to develop the KB somehow. g6 is Dragon, e6 is Shveningen, e5 is Najdorf I thought.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=B85
As I said before, Black only plays e5 in the Najdorf in response to Be2 in almost all other cases the pawn goes to e6. The KB is always developed to e7. The biggest difference between the Scheveningen and the Najdorf setup is the placement of the QN: in the Scheveningen it "always goes to Nc6" see http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/sche-07a.htm

while in the Najdorf it always goes to d7.

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Originally posted by no1marauder
As I said before, Black only plays e5 in the Najdorf in response to Be2 in almost all other cases the pawn goes to e6. The KB is always developed to e7. The biggest difference between the Scheveningen and the Najdorf setup is the placement of the QN: in the Scheveningen it "always goes to Nc6" see http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/sche-07a.htm

while in the Najdorf it always goes to d7.
Best explained.
In the Najdorf; goal is to play d5, which is achieved by Nd7-b6.
The Bishop comes to e6. After d5 black has a free game.

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Originally posted by Pereira
Best explained.
In the Najdorf; goal is to play d5, which is achieved by Nd7-b6.
The Bishop comes to e6. After d5 black has a free game.
That's not correct. In the Najdorf, the QB almost always goes to b7, after Black plays a6 and b5. d5 is an ultimate goal, but doesn't happen early very often, if at all. And the QN hardly ever gets played to b6 in the opening.