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The Brand New Bronstein Knight???

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NimzoPatzer
Sep 22, 2016
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While looking at some games in the "early" stages of the KID (1940s) I found that if allowed Bronstein would use what I now call a Bronstein knight to attack the light squares around a king's bishop fianchetto.

So I decided to name the knight as a Bronstein knight, in honor to him, just like there is a rook called the Budapest rook.

But what the hell is a Bronstein knight? A Bronstein Knight is a Black knight on g5, the usual way to get a Bronstein knight is by manouvering your queen's knight to e6 and then your king's knight from f6 to h7 and then to g5, challenging control of both h3 and f3.

This setup can turn out to be deadly if White allows Black to close up the center with e4, starting a massive attack on the kingside.

 

Here are some examples of it:

 

 
 
What do you think? Should this knight be called the Bronstein knight? Was Bronstein the first one to come out with this plan? So far I have only seen Bronstein knight in Bronstein's games. 
And, does White have a modest setup that works good for him? Seems like if White doesnt play e4 Black just haves an easy time.
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NimzoPatzer
Sep 22, 2016
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Here is another game with the Bronstein knight, it includes a rocket h-pawn.

This game reminds me of one of Kasparov's amazing attacking chess against Short in the Showdown at St. Louis, Kasparov also pushed Harry out of nowhere and got a great position against Short's crappy Zagreb variation in the Najdorf.