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The Annoying Grand Prix Attack

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Alex Colovic
May 04, 2024
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As a Najdorf player I have always been annoyed by the Grand Prix Attack.

The main reason for it was the feeling that I was being fooled and not very subtly at that. You see, when the White player plays 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3, as a Najdorf player I always felt the obligation to reply with 2...d6, in order to keep the transpositional possibility to get back to my…

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