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Autumn Challenge 2026 - Najdorf - 3 New Weapons for White
After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6, White faces probably the most theoretical position in chess. Millions of games have been played, and the main lines are analyzed deep into the middlegame.
Finding something fresh here is a real test. That is the task of this stage.
This database continues the Modern Chess Autumn Challenge. In the Carlsbad stage, four authors built repertoires for Black. Now the challenge switches sides: GM Baadur Jobava, GM Lorenzo Lodici and GM José Martínez Alcántara received the same task, a repertoire for White against the Najdorf. Each of them worked on it independently.