Nimzo-Indian

Hi,

Just a general question, I've recently decided to study the above attack for black against D4 openings. In order to help my studies, can anyone give me examples of players who are considered "great" with this opening, or example games to look at? I'm looking at using Master Games, in addition to general theory to help me understand the general principles behind the above openings.

Thanks in advance,

Russell

Use some kind of games explorer and set search criteria for the opening (ECO code) and set some limit for the ELO of the players.

Sorry, didn't think about that but I vaughly considered using similar features on other sites.

Most of the great have played the nimzo at some point in their career (Thinking of it, Kasparov and Fischer are outside that group). I was very inspired when I as a young lad read the notes to the game Johner - Nimzovitch in the brilliant book "Learn from the grandmasters" where both Szabo and Larsen commented the game. That's just a hint, otherwise there are plenty of books on the subject, and Larsens (and, of course - Karpovs) games are a good place to start. Good luck, and ask again in more detail if I can be of assistance.

 No, I was trying to suggest a quick-n-dirty method for finding strong players who have used the opening.

You can go to a site called chessgames.com and put in the opening and it will show you who frequently uses that opening.  For the nimzo, Nigel Short is a proponent of that opening and you can also see a game that Fischer lost against it using the white pieces.  I was surprised to see the Fischer game, because he rarely used a d pawn opening.