The Sicilian Najdorf Beyond Theory PGN Only Chessable Jun 18, 2025

THE Sicilian Middlegame Manual
for the Club Player

So you’ve learned some opening lines in the Sicilian. But in one of the richest openings in chess, 10-20 moves of opening theory will only get you so far!

That’s where this course steps in. With it, you’ll develop your “sixth sense” for playing the Sicilian, so that no matter where the opening takes you, you can navigate the resulting middlegame and endgame with confidence.

And while this course is based on the Najdorf variation specifically, the concepts within easily apply to other variations, including the Dragon, Scheveningen, Sveshnikov and more.

The highly structured organization of the course will familiarize you with the most fundamental strategic and tactical concepts, all the way to more nuanced middlegame and endgame maneuvers.

Through 10 chapters, you’ll develop an intuition for how to play the most common and critical strategic and tactical situations in the Sicilian. Specifically:

♜ The most critical pawn structures in the Najdorf, including the Boleslavsky Hole, Scheveningen structure, Rauzer structure, and Dragon structure

♜ Typical strategic plans for Black and White, including struggles for the critical d5 square, important pawn breaks, and queenside majority attacks

♜ Offensive and defensive themes for both sides – including common positional pawn sacrifices to seize the initiative

♜ Typical endgames, and how to make plans in them by reading the pawn structures

♜ A collection of annotated games, so you can see how the concepts are applied in practice by the best Sicilian practitioners

♜ Thematic sacrifices and tactics – including but not limited to those juicy exchange sacrifices on c3!

If you don’t see Black’s clever sacrificial move here, don’t worry – sacs
like this will be second nature to you after taking this course!

The course is brought to you by Candidate Master Honi Arora, better known on Chessable as d4player. With two popular courses already published under his name, CM Arora has established himself as a rising star on Chessable.

With thorough yet easily digestible explanations in each variation, it’s no wonder either. Both beginners and advanced players can develop their ‘feel’ for the Sicilian with this course – so no matter which Sicilian variation you play, be sure to grab The Sicilian Najdorf: Beyond Theory today.