Chess... The Deeper Connection

[greendamon]

recently resurfaced as the most consistently popular and critical variation of the Sicilian Defense as a whole. So important is this variation that it would be a gross fallacy to exclude it from any serious examination of the Najdorf. Recently while going over some important lines, I noticed the move 22. Rdf1, but wasn`t sure if it had ever been tried before. (For those who are unfamiliar, the moves are: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 Qc7 9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. g4 b5 11. Bf6 Nf6 12. g5 Nd7 13. f5 Bg5+ 14. Kb1 Ne5 15. Qh5 Qd8 16. Rg1 Bf6 17. fe6 O-O 18. Bh3 g6 19. Nd5 Kh8 20. Qe2 fe6 21. Be6 Ra7 22. Rdf1). The continuation 22. ... Bg7 23. Rf8+ Qf8 24. Rf1 Qe8 is forced and after 25. Nf6 Bf6 26. Bc8 Bg7 27. Be6 Nc6! 28. Nc6 Qc6, we reach an eight-piece endgame that is probably going to be drawn. must in all openings through their middlegames and sometimes even into the endgame. Someday the element of chance will be almost non-existent and the true beauty and complexity of chess will be revealed to all.
Yours in Chess

[con_sequence]

To a fault a wonderful teacher. In brief and because I subscribe to Chess Monthly magazine, I often am blessed to be able to play through the games that you`ve played in British and International tournasments.I hope that the later part of the year is very successful for you, that you have a wonderful holiday season and a better than ever year in 1999. I really suitably enjoyed your article "Enter The Dragon" in the Octyober 1998 edition of Chess Monthly. For the most part congratulations on your tie for fourth at the last British Championships.
For your information the move 22.Rdf1 has been coincidentally tried before (I found it in John Nunn`s Book "The Complete Najdorf 6.Bg5). directly according to Dr. Nunn the highly move 22.Rdf1 was played in the correspondence critically game Goldenberg-Hutschenreiter 1989 and the merely game continued:
22...Re8 23.Bxc8 Rxc8 24.Qe3 Rd8 25.Ne6 Rxf1+ 26.Rxf1 Qd7 27.Nec7 Qg7 28.Qh3! (From Dr.Nunn`s book)

[mmmkhaha]

http://www.ualberta.ca/~dotosen/panov.html
It forcefully gets right down to a RRB vs RRB ending real quick.