bogo Indian bd2

Often after I get the nimzo done my opponent respond bd2 and I suppose this is when the game changes bogo indian? What is a smart response to bd2 and why and why bd2 seems not to be played often on higher level against nimzo/bogo?

It's the bogo, but worry less about names, and more about what the aims of the opening are.

After 4...BxBch 5NxB black can put pawns on black squares with d6, and e5 with easy equality. (This is one of the common themes of Bogo). So white more typically tries 5QxN, intending to put the knight on active square c3.

All four Black replies do have their own merit.

I'm not so fond of the positions in the Vitolins variation (4...c5), but I have played in the past mainly 4...Qe7 as well as 4...a5, and I've been scoring very well. 4...Bxd2+ is also fine, although probably a tad too solid for my taste.

Most recent game from online CC. Engines tend to grant white a small plus in such positions, but I believe Black is absolutely fine- he just has to know how to combine a kingside assault with slowing white's queenside counterplay effectively.

I think white lost too much time trying to wrap the a4 pawn up, and decided to do something on the other flank when it was already too late- he did not even manage to take that freaking pawn!

Thanks, what do you think of Eingorn's attempt to improve on that line with

1.d4 e6 2c4 Bb4ch 3Bd2 a5 4g3 d6 etc, skipping on nf6 to attack d4 earlier?

GM Antic and IM Maksimovic have issued a book on that "Modern Bogo".

They do dedicate a lot of space in lines where Black delays, or omits ...Nf6. I do not think these lines are essentially better than the regular Bogo ones, plus of course the fact 1...e6 allows 2.e4 with a French.

Great discovery. Please do mind copyrighting it!

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