art of planning (Nimzo-Indian def.) part 3/25

Please note that all the info. in this post are taken from outside sources, they will be mentionned in the last section (special thanks and others sources section)..AND DON'T FORGET TO ALWAYS LOOK FOR COMMENTS UNDER EACH DIAGRAMS!!! 

                                                 Nimzo-Indian def.

 In the early 1900, Aaron Nimzowitsch had played this opening very often.  He was considered like "the father of the hypermodern" chess...  This defence are a semi-open game and offer generally a good solidity and flexibility (especialy for their pawns)  for the Black's pieces.  Personnally, i LOVE this kind of opening (also all the indian déf. (queen and King)) for Black's pieces in response to 1.d4...  

Zoom out section: 

In this opening, we will see 11 differents variation of this defence.  This variations will be the Mikenas attack, spielmann variation, the sys. Romanishin-Kasparov, the classical variation, Karlsbad variation, Leningrad variation, the San Remo variation, the 3 Knights def. variation, Kmoch variation, Rubinstein variation and FINALLY the Saemisch variation.

Zoom in section:

1-The Mikenas attack section:

   Let's start this section with an instructive game between Mikenas, himself, against Keres, for illustrate the Mikenas attack.

2-Spielmann variation section:

  Let's see a game won by Joël Lautier in 1999...

3-The system Romanichin - Kasparov section:

4- Classical variation section:

   Here, Black tries to put the key e4 square under firm control (frequently he even plays b6 and Bb7 to increase his pressure there) and therefore, due to his inability to play e3-e4 White's Bc1 becomes very passive.

IMP, NOTE: 10.Bxb8 is not doing well for White for the time being. Play becomes easy for Black and it is White who often gets into trouble.

5-Karlsbad variation section: 

 6- Leningrad variation section:

7- San Remo section:

8- 3 Knights def. section:

9- Kmoch variation section:

10-Rubinstein variation section:

11-Saemisch variation section:

It is only natural that Black tried to stop the e4 advance by playing d5.  The move has two drawbacks:  1) It allows White to un-double his pawns by c4 x d5, 2) It doesn't stop the e4 advance, as was shown in the famous game Botvinnik-Capablanca, Amsterdam, 1938.  This is such an important strategical concept that I am planning to devote a separate article to it.  Here I just want to show two brilliant attacks.  In one of them White followed Botvinnik's footsteps and pushed e3-e4 and in the second game White used his 'g' pawn to demolish Black's defense.

Youtube "excellent link" section:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsfRJbDIR8&playnext_from=TL&videos=LbqJliWK7Ak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUrwqi0xd0&playnext_from=TL&videos=pROMUf5k0mg

and this one is not a youtube link but an chess.com link...

http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-nimzo-nf3g3-setup-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun

To be avoided section:

Personal game section:

More about planning section:

Nimzowich defense (1.d4-Nf6 2.c4-e6 3.Nc3-Bb4)

For White: -Gain the control of e4, e5 and d5 for a complete control of the center and try to keep Black out of this squares.

For Black:  -Gain the control of white e4 and d5 before looking for a complete control of the center...

Quebecor's games section:

Nathalia Pogonina's games section:

Special thanks section:

I just wanna said a BIG SPECIAL THANKS at Borgqueen, thanks my friend for give me some good ideas for the structure of this post..

AND ALSO, a BIG THANKS at: WWW.pogonina.COM

thamizhan, Gserper, Arunabi, FM_Eric_Schiller, Oldbill !! Thank you all for make this topic possible!!! ...The thamizhan, Gserper, Arunabi, FM_Eric_Schiller content's was a GREAT HELP!!!

Others references:

-ChessMaster 10

-Fritz 10

-Chess books       - Chess Master vs Chess Amateur (W.Meiden & M. Euwe)

                         - Garry Kasparov on my great predecessors IV (on Fischer)

                          - website "federation quebecoise des échecs" database

- youtube                                                         

-  http://www.pogonina.com

-wikipedia

That's ALL for the Nimzo-Indian!.. I hope you had appreciated ;)

 C_H_E_S_STAR

It's nice to feel appreciated :-) Good post :-)

BTW There's a Nimzoindian themed tournament that I'm putting together if you look in the themed section ;-)

 Thanks for comment:..I can join one more tournement before my 10 limits and i will register to your tournament! :)

Great great post Chesstar. Thanks!

 Thanks a lot Flamma_Aquila!, and this topic are in 25 differents parts.. I suggest you to watch out the 22 others parts of this topic who will comming soon (and the 2 previous ones). ... I spend a lot of time to create them correctly and i think that they will be a great help to improve (a little) chess level for anyone studying them seriously.  :)