Thank you for the answer.

Konstantyn, if black plays Kg8 then after bxc3 white is just up a pawn with a strong attacking position. Even if the attack is nothing, white would still be up a pawn. So the only critical move is Bf6, which lost as in the game.

Sorry about 20.Qf8+ since it has nothing to do with the winning position.Black can play both19...Rf8 and 19...Be4.The first move seems to be better.

18.Qf5+Kg819.bc Rf8 20.Qf8! with winning position.

nice game. I absolutely love sacrifices.

Nice game !

i think, if u wanna beatin the najdorf,u must make sacrifice(s). generally Mikhail Tal's (old world champion) game againist the Najdorf like this.i think najdorf is a queen side variation.It be disregardfuls of king's side..if u prepare a fast king's side attack, it be interesting match(es)..

@hicetnunc: You answered your questions yourself :) The drawback of 7... h6 is that white has more tactical chances, like with e5 and exf6 as in the game, or with Nxe6 and Bg6+, or with Qg3 attacking the g-pawn. This means black is nearly forced to play 11... g5, which if I'm not mistaken can also be reached via the 10... h6 11. Bh4 move order (maybe white will take 11. Bxf6 in that variation, but I'm not sure). If first Nbd7, Be7 and Qc7, then black would still have options besides h6-g5.

And for 15... Bxf3 , your second thought already answered that :)

Ummm...what can I say? You simply owned him :)

Hello ! Very nice and instructive game - thank you for sharing.

I have 2 questions :

• doesn't 11...g5 transpose into a regular Browne variation ? if it does, then what is the drawback of an early 7...h6 (except restricting black's options ?)
• in the 15...Bxf3 variation, is white's compensation really enough after 17...Nf6 18.Bxf6 gxf6 19.e8Q+ Rxe8 20.Bxe8 Kh7 ? (well, on 2nd thoughts it looks like it's more than enough )

5-minutes again. On the ICC the most used time controls are 1/0, 3/0 and 5/0, so the best chance for me to get a good opponent and a good game is to play 5-minute games there.

It probably explains 22... Qg7? which black maybe wouldn't have played if he thought longer. However, my mistake of playing 21. Rhe1? was not really due to the short time control, since I first considered 21. Rxd6!, but when I looked at the position longer I got a preference for 21. Rhe1 which turned out to be worse!

And 11... b5? only shows that black didn't know the "trap" which he just needs to know. If he didn't know the trap now, he probably wouldn't have found it in a longer game either.

The rest of the moves were quite ok by both sides for a 5-minute game I guess, with 16. Qxe6, 22. Qh4 and 25. Re7 being some of the better moves :)

Again, what was the time control?

Geee, that's a hell of a game! Sure it's a prepared line but nevertheless ... well played!!