Can anyone help because i dont play well enough against nimzo-indian, is there any line or fact to remember to defuse the nimzo-indian. if so, then pls tell me i will be grateful
How to diffuse Nimzo-Indian Defense.
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Sep 28, 2018
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Black looks to double up the pawns on the c-file in exchange for his dark square bishop. With the knight on c3 the key defender of the e4 square, black really starts to focus his energy on controlling the e4 and the light squares.
I don't know if you're strong enough yet for this to matter too much but at some point you really will need a response to this opening as it is likely to happen very often in your games.
If you are of a more positional persuasion then 4. g3, 4. e3 and then 5. N(g)e2, or 4. Qc2 0-0 5. a3 are ideas you should look at. If you want complications then 4. Bg5, 4. Qc2 0-0 5. e4, or (especially) 4. f3 are lines worth examining.
You may not find an objective advantage in all of these variations, but that is just how serious an opening like the Nimzo is. At the end of the day it might be better for you to have some system that you like to play and you know very well than to chase a +0.2 eval while allowing many deviations that black will know better than you.
The Nimzo-Indian is statistically the strongest reply to the 1d4/2c4/3Nc3 opening. It is a very tough nut to crack. In practice white often evades it if he is a London System coward or playing 3Nf3 on move 3. If I knew an antidote I'd play it myself. When I played 1d4 as white against my own preferred black defence - that is to say the Nimzo - I play 1d4 Nf6 2c4 e6 3Nc3 Bb4 4f3 I don't pretend that it offers any edge. It is different though, and I did have some good wins as white. By the same token I'm not afraid of it as black either.
Sep 29, 2018
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At world championship level there are quite a lot of wins and promising positions for white from the opening. Black allowing the position to unbalance early compared to Queens gambit declined and Slav positions is something of a boom for white. White can try for advantage just like any other opening, Its a bit strange this forum views the Nimzo as invincible.
Really a lot of high rated player just avoid the Nimzo. It has a similar spirit as the Berlin defense, which lets people choose, 3. Bc4 over Bb5. But of course the Berlin defense or the Nimzo are playable for white, but top players, often get bored or annoyed of facing all the time, the same response to their opening choices with white. It gives black a lot of flexible options, and a lot to learn for both sides.
Bg5 Main line
Ziggy_Zugzwang wrote:
The Nimzo-Indian is statistically the strongest reply to the 1d4/2c4/3Nc3 opening. It is a very tough nut to crack. In practice white often evades it if he is a London System coward or playing 3Nf3 on move 3. If I knew an antidote I'd play it myself. When I played 1d4 as white against my own preferred black defence - that is to say the Nimzo - I play 1d4 Nf6 2c4 e6 3Nc3 Bb4 4f3 I don't pretend that it offers any edge. It is different though, and I did have some good wins as white. By the same token I'm not afraid of it as black either.
"London system coward" now that's a new one lol!