Larsen opening

Is there any free material about the Larsen opening that you can suggest me?

I just have the Modern Chess Openings, but this book doesn't explain the ideas behind the lines and variants it offers.

I watched some superficial videos in Youtube, which just show the few first moves without more explanations.

Thank you for any advice.

- Rafael.

It's not free, but maybe it would be useful to mention:

The Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala (2013)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052905/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen175.pdf

Thanks, kindaspongey. I just bought the book :-)

- Rafael.

you should also check out the earlier games of Jabova.. I think he played it in his early days with great results.

I actually played the Nimzovitch-Larsen Attack for a while, back in the early 90's.  It was good for its shock value, because it took people out of their book preparation, but it's not really aggressive enough to play as white.  It's sort of like a Queen's Indian Defense, with colors reversed.   The problem with it is that it lets black take control of the center first and gives black too many options.  Why let black dictate the game, when you don't have to?   

I'll give to this opening a chance of 10~20 long time games before evaluate whether it is good enough for me. Anyway, some GMs played (and play) it with some good results. Let's see what happen.

@ dr_chessdad: I'm missing your posts and game analysis :-)

1.b3 is a cool opening, I think you bought the best resource on it.  If you're serious about it I'd consider getting this DVD as well: 

http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/davies_the_nimzowitsch_larsen_attack

Good luck

There is also nice lecture from  GM Igor Smirnov channel. Here is part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZQnlIJJKM

I think Korchnoi once said something like "If you're going to play stuff like this, why study openings?"

Youtube?

the New York Attack : not do good w/ dis opening at chess.com. vs. my rating or above. ie. use vs. lower rated. 

"Many opening monographs have enthusiastic titles of the form Winning with the... and invite the reader to ingest some marvellous system or other and rack up points - either by encyclopaedic knowledge of main lines or the methodical application of simple strategies. So let us make it clear, first of all, that White has no advantage in the Nimzo-Larsen. The lines in ECO, for example, conclude mostly in '=' (equal) or 'unclear', with just a few '+=' (White stands slightly better) and even these '+=' seem optimistic. Nor is the Nimzo-Larsen a 'system' opening in which the first moves are played parrot-fashion regardless of the replies. There are system-like elements in some variations - the plan Bb5, Ne5, f2-f4 in the reversed Nimzo-Indian (Chapter 4) for instance - but more often White (and Black) can do just about anything. Anyone who likes to win their games in the opening should therefore look elsewhere." - Byron Jacobs & Jonathan Tait (2001) in Nimzo-Larsen Attack

https://web.archive.org/web/20140626223637/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen27.pdf

I used to play it as a system opening, by starting with 1. Nf3, followed by 2. e3.   I could then transpose into a Nimzo-Larsen, a Queen's Gambit, a Colle or a London System, depending on what black did.  It's not very aggressive though, as it allows black to play his favorite defense, but it has some shock value and gets people out of book if they haven't seen it before.   

For those not scared by french language :

https://www.chess.com/fr/article/view/comment-se-creer-un-repertoire-douverture

https://www.chess.com/fr/article/view/comment-se-creer-un-repertoire-douverture-la-suite

Why going elsewhere when u have material here?

Nice post, poucin.

When I was a teenager, I rode 1.b3 from 1300 all the way up to 1900, after which boredom drove me back to 1.e4.