Nimzo-Indian defense

Already, this setup could have resulted from a Nimzo-Indian Defense.

In the Nimzo-Indian Defense, the line beginning with 1.

Against the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 4 Nf3 makes a strange impression.

The opening was a Nimzo-Indian Defense in which Krush played 4 f3.

Nf3, White sidesteps the Nimzo-Indian Defense that arises after 3.

The move 4 e3 introduces the Main Line of attack against the Nimzo-Indian Defense.

What began as an English Opening transposed into a Nimzo-Indian Defense after 7 d4.

The idea of 4 Qc2 against the Nimzo-Indian Defense is to obtain the bishop pair without getting doubled c pawns.

The Puc Variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defense (1.

The term "defense" does not imply passivity; many defenses are quite aggressive (such as the Nimzo-Indian Defense).

A few years ago, Gary Kasparov brought back the flexible development with 4 Nf3 against the Nimzo-Indian Defense.

The variation with 4 Qc2 against the Nimzo-Indian Defense is known as the Capablanca or Classical attack.

Capablanca's old favorite against the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 4 Q-B2, has been taken up by Seirawan for a while now.

Lately 4 Qc2, Capablanca's old favorite, has returned to prominence against the Nimzo-Indian Defense since new ways have been found to put teeth into it.

Currently it has become torrentially popular to meet the Nimzo-Indian Defense by the positional 4 Qc2, which avoids doubled c pawns.

Once an overwhelming favorite, the Rubinstein Variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 4 e3, is currently thought to be too conservative and stodgy.

Kramnik met Kasparov's Nimzo-Indian Defense with the Classical 4 Qc2 in Game 8.

It is not clear what the current popularity of 5 Nge2, the Rubinstein Variation against the Nimzo-Indian Defense, derives from.

Advocated by Nimzowitsch as early as 1913, the Nimzo-Indian Defense was the first of the Indian systems to gain full acceptance.

Developing with 3 Nc3 has diminished in popularity in recent years because of the success of the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 3 Bb4.

E, second edition, gives it one line; Svetozar Gligoric's "Nimzo-Indian Defense" doesn't give it a mention.

The distinctive move of the Leningrad Variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 4 Bg5, develops this bishop before it might be blocked by e3.

In the Rubinstein Variation, 4 e3, against the Nimzo-Indian Defense, White would invariably mobilize with 6 Nf3 years ago, but very few players do that now.

Gurevich, however, preferred to let the game transpose into a Nimzo-Indian Defense, Rubinstein Variation, after the conservative 4 e3 Bb7 5 Ne2.

The Saemisch System against the Nimzo-Indian Defense, initiated by 5 a3 Bc3 6 bc, yields White the bishop-pair and a mass of center pawns.