How can you counter the Nimzo-Indian?

I always play to win by checkmate in 10 mins blitz.

People love to whine when their opponents don't play the way they like heh.

"He played Nc3, therefore he sucks"

lol

Yes, long ago I deduced that chess is a draw with best or correct play from both sides. However for practical chances 1. d4!  is a great move and the variation 1. d4  Nf6  2. c4  e6  3. Nc3  Bb4  4. f3!? gives very good practical chances.  You all can reason that maybe there are lines after 4. f3!? that are not in the latest theory? 

No need to notify the newspapers that I have found that chess is a draw---Most every good players know this [grand masters super grand masters and  most masters.]

I like playing against the Nimzo-Indian. It's less likely to be a draw than many openings, due to the usual pawn structure, so black often plays to win on the Q-side and loses on the K-side.

The Ragozin can be reached (albeit through transpo) via 4. Nf3 d5, not 4. f3 d5 which is a Kmoch Nimzo. That might be part of the confusion

If black has three equally viable responses, does that make f3 a particularly good 4th move?

Yeah I think 4. f3 is as good a move as any, because I think it's very tough to get anything special as white against the Nimzo in general. 

Some people had recommended that I play 4. f3 because of my aggressive style but really I go for control with varied options. I'm sticking with 4. e3 with an optional 5. a3 or 5. Bd3. I like the flexibility it gives me and I like the pawn structure f3 e3 d4 c3 c4 for white together with the options it gives. I'm stating to get to know it and acquiring a feel for how to play it. I usually go for Ne2 but sometimes even Nf3 and getting to know the variations gives an ever increasing chance of outplaying the opposition.

Very bold claims for a 1600.... LOL

and to OP: 4. f3 is not a bad line but there are other equally good alternatives  It doesn't really matter too much below master level however, what matters is how white uses his advantage of the bishop pair and his strong centre.

Caruana seemed to think so, re 4f3, when won with it recent candidates tournament.

In candidates and world championship matches there are has many white wins playing against Nimzo as any opening. It might be because the inbalances  in the position give white players and their teams  more to work with, than slav's and queen's gambit declines.  

Hachi  I am not a 1600 player--my son used my computer and played some games on my account and thus the very low rating. Am actually rated over 2500 and have beat every grand master I have ever played!

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the best move is qc2 i played against the nimzo in tournaments against ushcf masters and qc2 is best but the reason why f3 isnt good is that its really giving the nimzo indian player what they want and qc2 ais best option in qc2 lines white just wants a game

since your playig into the nimzo you just want to play chess not get an advantage qc2 is the only move for that if you want to strive for a better game play g3 after d4 nf6 c4 e6 g3

dont avoid the nimzo with nf3 since this is only a tiny better alterntive since white can get similiar positions with bishop b4 check after d4 nf6 c4 e6 nf3 bb4 black sort of has a nimzo

if you want fight against e6 play g3 or go into a qc2 nimzo which is the only good variation for white

i think its best to not play f3 your wasting time even though you get a nice pawn center d5 is just really good for black best way to fight the nimzo is to avoid it since black is playing the cards

White either wants a positional edge or a good central or k-side attack. There doesn't seem any point in avoiding the Nimzo if you don't like theory, since the queen's Indian is much more complex and theory-laden than the Nimzo. If you like, you can avoid doubled pawns with Bd2, although black is fully equal. White can play e3, a3, Bd3, Ne2, f3 in some order an often gets a good central attack.

These are all ways after 1.d4 to avoid the Nimzo-Indian

These are all ways to avoid the Nimzo-Indian after 1.c4

Fun fact : 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 c5 4.d5 d6 5.Nc3 exd5 6.exd5 is a Modern Benoni

The main example sucks cause the knight is on f3 when it is CLEARLY meant to be on e2...