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I learned recently that Indian openings are when the first pawn moves are only one square forward. This is because in India their rules of chess hadn’t yet adopted the convention that first pawn moves could be two squares. So there you go 😉
This is why it's called Indian: Back in the 1850s chess in India was called Shatranj and in that game, the pawns could only move one step even on the first move and they couldn't castle. instead, the king could move as a knight once in the game. So a common tactic was to fianchetto the king, To quickly get close to the corner. An English lawyer, named Cochrane, had moved to India, which back then was a British colony. Cochrane was a good chess player and he met an Indian chess master,, named Moheshhander Bannerjee, after Cochrane had taught him the European rules, they played several games and Bannerjee often opened by fianchetto his bishop and attacked the center with his pieces instead of his pawns. This was very uncommon in Europe at the time, Since the games were recorded and published in an English newspaper, other chess players in England started to use these types of moves in the opening. So that's why these types of openings were named Indian-style openings.
I only knew that it is called "Indian" because the indians just move the pawns one square only in the opening. I didn't know these meticulous details. Thanks.
I am in my 70's and used to study the Nimzo. Indeed all the lines are complicated, but this system makes it simple! Great video! I went through your channel to see what you would recommend against the Trompowski, but noticed that you only have videos from white's side. How about a video on a good line against the Trompowski? That would be a perfect complement to this video in case white goes Bg5 on move one and bypasses this system.
For a simple setup against the Trompowsky there are typically 2 main ways of playing it: Either an early c5 which is complicated, or the more classical approach that top players like Anand would employ where you get a solid position with the bishop pair with D5/C6. Typically you get a system of pawns on h7,g6,f5,f7,d5,c6 and you place your light squared bishop on e6, bring your knight from the queenside over to f6, then e4 and fianchetto your dark squared bishop and castle. Not necessarily that exact order, but you can typically achieve that final setup no matter what white does. This system is typically achieved with the move D5 or C6 against the Trompowsky where white in inclined to trade their bishop or risk questioning why it went there once black puts his other knight on d7. There is not a whole lot white can do to stop this plan either which is another reason why it's popular since it's an easy to remember solution against the Trompowsky. C5 however is indeed the most testing move and arguably the refutation, but can boast quite a deep amount of theory for a sideline you may not want to invest much time towards.
► Chapters 00:00 Nimzo-Indian Defense Chess Opening For Black 01:04 The problem with the Nimzo-Indian (why they don't play it) 01:50 1) White plays 4.Nf3 03:34 Fianchetto the Queenside Bishop 05:12 Kingside attacking plan for Black 07:07 Nasty checkmating threats 10:18 If White attacks with Ba3 13:25 If White doesn't play g3 14:45 2) White plays 4.e3 16:54 3) White plays 4.a3 19:00 4) White plays 4.Qc2 20:26 5) White plays 4.Bg5 23:50 If White plays Rc1 to defend c3
00:00:00 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Strategic and aggressive opening for black. 00:00:23 Control Central Squares: Utilize minor pieces for active play. 00:01:42 Simplified Aggressive Setup: Focus on one effective strategy. 00:01:55 Knight to F3: Common move in response to Nimzo-Indian Defense. 00:02:01 Knight to E4: Strategic move to block opponent's central pawn. 00:03:39 Bishop Development: Utilize Bishop to control key squares. 00:04:46 Trade Dark-Square Bishop: Strengthen position and create weaknesses. 00:05:30 Kingside Castling: Transition to attacking position against opponent's king. 00:06:32 Queen H4 Maneuver: Position queen for a potential checkmate. 00:07:14 Exploiting Knight D2 Move: Capitalize on opponent's positional weaknesses. 00:08:08 Queen G4: Threatening mate and controlling key squares. 00:10:10 Rook Lift: Mobilize rooks for a coordinated attack on opponent's king. 00:11:00 Bishop A3 Mistake: Exploiting opponent's positional errors. 00:14:15 Gradual Attack Development: Methodical approach to building pressure. 00:15:26 Flexible Response: Adapting strategy based on opponent's moves. 00:16:06 Strategic chess gameplay insights. 00:16:13 Utilizing pawn and knight positioning. 00:17:00 Counterattacking opponent's disruptive moves effectively. 00:18:08 Leveraging tactical opportunities with Queen H4 check. 00:20:27 Exploiting opponent's weaknesses in pawn structure. 00:20:50 Responding to Bishop G5 with the zigzag system. 00:21:12 Seizing control of the board with Pawn C5. 00:22:29 Capitalizing on opponent's positional errors for advantage. 00:23:28 Demonstrating strategic superiority through tactical exchanges.
i can tell you why it's called indian - in india, pawns could move only one square, therefore all openings without double pawn moves are called indian something. imo
The "Indian"in the nimzo Indian refers to the pawn only moving one square in the opening, as old Indian chess rules did not allow a pawn to move 2 spaces on it's first action
I discovered your channel a week ago, sir. You are great teacher! I discovered this channel about a week ago. Now I subscribe, of course. You are teaching a lot of tactics in the openings, that patzers like me are not aware of. Yes, I realise that my opponents will not be playing all that weak moves; but we need to learn how to take advantage of them anyway, in case they do. I appreciate the apparently trite advices, like "take is mistake", because your target group really need to be reminded. These are perhaps the first building blocks to a future strategic understanding.
Such a great video!! I've been playing this for awhile and I don't remember where I started learning it. But this video helps with a lot of gaps in my play. Thanks so much!!
Thank you so much that you made this channel for chess players as your stratagies, plans,openings are really nice. The first game I played with this opening I won that game.
Finally a Nimzo lecture! I actually found out Ne4 is very effective against Nf3 variations (until someone on a tourney played f3, sad times) but I wouldn't have guessed such awesome mating ideas are possible. I just knew something, something, probably rook lift. Awesome stuff, thanks!
When I play as black, my go to opening was kings Indian defense, but I always forgot what to do after about 6 moves. I think I accidentally played this opening one game without realizing, and I like this one way more. Thank you for the guide
I played a game that went like this: 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 f5 4. exf5. At this point I played d6. What should I I have played instead? What are the most likely moves White would have played next? In each case what would have been my best reply?
In all the openings where it says “indian”, you will see single square pawn push vs 2. That’s why these openings are called as Indian defence. In old age there wasn’t a rule that allowed you to push pawn by 2 squares.
No. It is not called Indian because Nimzowitch dreamed about an Indian wife. It is because in India, during XVII century, players practiced Indian chess, where you can only advance pawns to the third row (not two squares). Additionally, in the middle of the XIX century, a great Indian player, Banerjee, defeated the scott Cochrane in Calculta by using intensively fianchettos (something logical, according to the legacy of Indian chess pawn movement rules); then, Cochrane, when commenting his games in Calcutta, was who introduced the term "Indian Defenses". Almost a century after, Sultan Khan used intensively Queen's Indian Defense; that contributed to the association of the term "Indian" to black fianchettos on d4 openings.
All the Indian Defenses, that I know, usually start with 1.d4. Nf6.(King's Indian, Gruenfeld Indian, Nimzo Indian, Bogo Indian. (Exception:King's Indian Attack for white.)
A fairly straight-forward buster for this "System" is 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bg4 4. Nf3 Ne4 5. Qc2 f5 6. Nd2 (pin broken, so must chop on c3) Bxc3 7. bxc3 and now the Knight on e4 is not long for this world. One attempt is to bolster it with 7...d5, so at least Black can take with the f-pawn and occupy e4 that way, but once White plays 8. Ba3!!, the White King is hopelessly stuck in the center of the board.
So basically, you aim to transpose into the Rubinstein variation of the Dutch, without the risk of facing the Staunton, or that g4 gambit I can never remember its name. Sweet
Thankyou so much GM igor for making this video... As I encounter d4 with budapest gambit but most of the time attacked fails... Now I will play this system and crush my opponent
Anish giri shared a story explaining why openings have INDIAN added to the name. in past there was a rule in Indian chess, pawn moved only 1 step per move, so every opening like e6,d6 is called "something something Indian"
I found one flaw here I think, because in the Qc2 line after Nf3 b6 White can play g4 it seems like? It looks super unpleasant and its +1 for white. A better try in spirit of this system would be to simply castle instead of Bxc3 and only after a3 you finally take and go Ne4 and then you can play the usual system.
Fantastic video. I have 2 questions. What about 4.Hb3 and 3.Sf3?
7 месяцев назад+2
I haven't won a SINGLE game trying this opening so far - simply because my opponents keep playing the classical London and none of this seems to work (around 1200 rating range in rapid). Help?
There are many great options against the london, one aggressive one is 1.d4-Nf6 2.Bf4-d5 3.e3-c5 4.c3-Nc6 5.Nf3-Qb6 for example. You dont have to play Qb6 of course, in general setups with a pawn on d5 and c5 and knights on f6 and c6 are very good against the london
7 месяцев назад
@@Sandfox07but that's not the Nimzo Indian for black then? I thought this video covered the responses to d4 with the Nimzo Indian?
You can only play the nimzo if white allows it. The nimzo only occurs after the specific moves d4 Nf6 c4 e6 Nc3 Bb4. Everything else is not a nimzo. You cant play a nimzo against the london. You could try to play e6 b6 Bb7 against it, thats also a good setup I guess
7 месяцев назад
@@Sandfox07 that was precisely my original point. 🙂 Unless I'm mistaken, the entire video is around the Queen's Gambit opening by white, to which you can then play the Nimzo. I find the title bombastic given most players don't play the Queen's Gambit these days as white. He should've cemented the point the Nimzo only works under these circumstances.
7 месяцев назад
...I just realized the Nimzo might work against the Jobava London alongside the Queen's Gambit too. Not a bad video, but failing to mention clearly against which exact openings by white you can use the Nimzo is an oversight..
Playing against Wendy bot White goes Bishop d2 instead of kc3. I can also comment, although to be expected, that the unusual, chaotic position does not give bots issues, they just calculate the board and find one winning move.
I like these suggestions for Black but when I play White I play 4 f3 which stops 4...Ne4. With the main line for Black it is interesting that 11 f3 seems to neutralize the Black attack.
Btw its named "indian" because in the indian variant of chess (the old chess) pawns could only move 1 square, thats why the queens indian, the kings indian etc... are named indian bc u move the pawn only 1 square
Typically, knowing "theory" means knowing all the 'only' moves to keep the advantage or balance in the position. No theory means you can use ideas (typically principles or priyomes) to narrow down the correct move. Since that is how chess is played positionalyl anyway, you need no theory to find such moves. You just need to know how to play (principled) chess correctly.
Yeah right, no theory... Point is, when one wants to play the Nimzo, he should also have an answer to the Queen's Indian, Catalan, English to name but a few. It is not just Nimzo theory. That is why i prefer the Queen's Gambit Declined or Slav.
Its called nimzo-indian because of b7 pawn and a fianchetto - called black's queens indian. They played that way in India - the indian - but nimzo indian is a second degree approximate, no need to answer why is it indian - just why is it nimzo indian.
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This might help me instantly.😎
I learned recently that Indian openings are when the first pawn moves are only one square forward. This is because in India their rules of chess hadn’t yet adopted the convention that first pawn moves could be two squares.
So there you go 😉
I Always ask why nobody play this move😂
This is why it's called Indian: Back in the 1850s chess in India was called Shatranj and in that game, the pawns could only move one step even on the first move and they couldn't castle. instead, the king could move as a knight once in the game. So a common tactic was to fianchetto the king, To quickly get close to the corner. An English lawyer, named Cochrane, had moved to India, which back then was a British colony. Cochrane was a good chess player and he met an Indian chess master,, named Moheshhander Bannerjee, after Cochrane had taught him the European rules, they played several games and Bannerjee often opened by fianchetto his bishop and attacked the center with his pieces instead of his pawns. This was very uncommon in Europe at the time,
Since the games were recorded and published in an English newspaper, other chess players in England started to use these types of moves in the opening. So that's why these types of openings were named Indian-style openings.
Underrated comment 🗿
must have been a very cool time when new stuff on chess blew everybody's minds. The meta is so stale now, when Chess 2?
Great comment. Thank you.
I only knew that it is called "Indian" because the indians just move the pawns one square only in the opening. I didn't know these meticulous details. Thanks.
Why no Indian wife?? 😭😭😭
I am in my 70's and used to study the Nimzo. Indeed all the lines are complicated, but this system makes it simple! Great video! I went through your channel to see what you would recommend against the Trompowski, but noticed that you only have videos from white's side. How about a video on a good line against the Trompowski? That would be a perfect complement to this video in case white goes Bg5 on move one and bypasses this system.
For a simple setup against the Trompowsky there are typically 2 main ways of playing it: Either an early c5 which is complicated, or the more classical approach that top players like Anand would employ where you get a solid position with the bishop pair with D5/C6. Typically you get a system of pawns on h7,g6,f5,f7,d5,c6 and you place your light squared bishop on e6, bring your knight from the queenside over to f6, then e4 and fianchetto your dark squared bishop and castle. Not necessarily that exact order, but you can typically achieve that final setup no matter what white does. This system is typically achieved with the move D5 or C6 against the Trompowsky where white in inclined to trade their bishop or risk questioning why it went there once black puts his other knight on d7. There is not a whole lot white can do to stop this plan either which is another reason why it's popular since it's an easy to remember solution against the Trompowsky. C5 however is indeed the most testing move and arguably the refutation, but can boast quite a deep amount of theory for a sideline you may not want to invest much time towards.
Excellent! 👏👏👏
► Chapters
00:00 Nimzo-Indian Defense Chess Opening For Black
01:04 The problem with the Nimzo-Indian (why they don't play it)
01:50 1) White plays 4.Nf3
03:34 Fianchetto the Queenside Bishop
05:12 Kingside attacking plan for Black
07:07 Nasty checkmating threats
10:18 If White attacks with Ba3
13:25 If White doesn't play g3
14:45 2) White plays 4.e3
16:54 3) White plays 4.a3
19:00 4) White plays 4.Qc2
20:26 5) White plays 4.Bg5
23:50 If White plays Rc1 to defend c3
All the lines are helpful.😎
What if they play f3
Hey you don't give a weapon Against the white move f3
Pin it
00:00:00 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Strategic and aggressive opening for black.
00:00:23 Control Central Squares: Utilize minor pieces for active play.
00:01:42 Simplified Aggressive Setup: Focus on one effective strategy.
00:01:55 Knight to F3: Common move in response to Nimzo-Indian Defense.
00:02:01 Knight to E4: Strategic move to block opponent's central pawn.
00:03:39 Bishop Development: Utilize Bishop to control key squares.
00:04:46 Trade Dark-Square Bishop: Strengthen position and create weaknesses.
00:05:30 Kingside Castling: Transition to attacking position against opponent's king.
00:06:32 Queen H4 Maneuver: Position queen for a potential checkmate.
00:07:14 Exploiting Knight D2 Move: Capitalize on opponent's positional weaknesses.
00:08:08 Queen G4: Threatening mate and controlling key squares.
00:10:10 Rook Lift: Mobilize rooks for a coordinated attack on opponent's king.
00:11:00 Bishop A3 Mistake: Exploiting opponent's positional errors.
00:14:15 Gradual Attack Development: Methodical approach to building pressure.
00:15:26 Flexible Response: Adapting strategy based on opponent's moves.
00:16:06 Strategic chess gameplay insights.
00:16:13 Utilizing pawn and knight positioning.
00:17:00 Counterattacking opponent's disruptive moves effectively.
00:18:08 Leveraging tactical opportunities with Queen H4 check.
00:20:27 Exploiting opponent's weaknesses in pawn structure.
00:20:50 Responding to Bishop G5 with the zigzag system.
00:21:12 Seizing control of the board with Pawn C5.
00:22:29 Capitalizing on opponent's positional errors for advantage.
00:23:28 Demonstrating strategic superiority through tactical exchanges.
What ai did u use?
"Maybe he dreamed about an indian wife? I don't know" caught me off guard lol peak comedy xD
instead, he dreamt about double pawn move :D
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4:45 i got this far and decided your my new favourite chess youtuber.. new world order in my book 1.Igor 2. Gothem 3. Agaganamin
Alex banzea is great too
i can tell you why it's called indian - in india, pawns could move only one square, therefore all openings without double pawn moves are called indian something. imo
The "Indian"in the nimzo Indian refers to the pawn only moving one square in the opening, as old Indian chess rules did not allow a pawn to move 2 spaces on it's first action
I discovered your channel a week ago, sir. You are great teacher! I discovered this channel about a week ago. Now I subscribe, of course. You are teaching a lot of tactics in the openings, that patzers like me are not aware of. Yes, I realise that my opponents will not be playing all that weak moves; but we need to learn how to take advantage of them anyway, in case they do. I appreciate the apparently trite advices, like "take is mistake", because your target group really need to be reminded. These are perhaps the first building blocks to a future strategic understanding.
Thank you! This is very helpful. I hope I apply these things in my games successfully.
I dont know why but every time I try your openings at 1800 rating my opponent always does a weird move that ruins my plans
That is because 1800's are generally a bit stronger than the hypothetical White player in this video. ;)
@@manoftheforest7505 nah whit eis playing the top moves its the lower lvl players who dont play like the vid
Such a great video!! I've been playing this for awhile and I don't remember where I started learning it. But this video helps with a lot of gaps in my play. Thanks so much!!
The best chess teacher on the internet!! Your videos helped me alot, slava Igor Smirnov i slava шахи !
Awesome! Thank you. Very clear explanation. Thumbs up and subscribed.
Thank you for watching!
Very instructive, now I have better understanding of the nimzo indian Thank you so much coach!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much that you made this channel for chess players as your stratagies, plans,openings are really nice.
The first game I played with this opening I won that game.
Spoiler alert: your opponents will not play any of these moves.
That's true, it doesn't always happen, but knowing the ideas is helpful for strategic play.
Thats why it said "no theory". It provides ideas and strategy to play against what your opponent plays.
Finally a Nimzo lecture! I actually found out Ne4 is very effective against Nf3 variations (until someone on a tourney played f3, sad times) but I wouldn't have guessed such awesome mating ideas are possible. I just knew something, something, probably rook lift. Awesome stuff, thanks!
superb video a much needed one as i was looking for a solid and aggressive opening against black. Keep up the good work
This is fantastic material, thanks a lot!
7:54 How is checkmate when the pawn from F2 can come forward?
Because the knight is the one delivering the check, the bishop is just supporting.
When I play as black, my go to opening was kings Indian defense, but I always forgot what to do after about 6 moves. I think I accidentally played this opening one game without realizing, and I like this one way more. Thank you for the guide
Excellent channel. Compliments!!. However, I would like there to be more videos about the mediumgame and the ending.
My new go-to 1.d4 Opening ! Already making my Lichess Study
same
I played a game that went like this: 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 f5 4. exf5. At this point I played d6. What should I I have played instead? What are the most likely moves White would have played next? In each case what would have been my best reply?
Excellent video! My favorite of all your videos. You make chess fun to play by taking away the grind of endless preparation.
Nice transposition trick from Nimzo to Dutch Defence!!!
In all the openings where it says “indian”, you will see single square pawn push vs 2. That’s why these openings are called as Indian defence. In old age there wasn’t a rule that allowed you to push pawn by 2 squares.
At 7:50, Na6++ is actually a blunder. "A knight on the rim is dim."
I have been playing for 30+ years and this is absolute Gem to know...Thank so much for this cant wait to play this in tournament!
No. It is not called Indian because Nimzowitch dreamed about an Indian wife. It is because in India, during XVII century, players practiced Indian chess, where you can only advance pawns to the third row (not two squares). Additionally, in the middle of the XIX century, a great Indian player, Banerjee, defeated the scott Cochrane in Calculta by using intensively fianchettos (something logical, according to the legacy of Indian chess pawn movement rules); then, Cochrane, when commenting his games in Calcutta, was who introduced the term "Indian Defenses". Almost a century after, Sultan Khan used intensively Queen's Indian Defense; that contributed to the association of the term "Indian" to black fianchettos on d4 openings.
Thank so much Igor..I realy like this kind of instructive video..
please ..any idea how to play against kan sicilian?
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Whoah, not sure how I haven't found this channel before, this is some of the best content i've seen.
Thank you man I was looking for a opening that guards off queens ga gambit
What's your preferred method of dealing with 3. Nf3 instead of 3. Nc3?
All the Indian Defenses, that I know, usually start with 1.d4. Nf6.(King's Indian, Gruenfeld Indian, Nimzo Indian, Bogo Indian. (Exception:King's Indian Attack for white.)
What a great video! Wow thanks 🙏
A fairly straight-forward buster for this "System" is 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bg4 4. Nf3 Ne4 5. Qc2 f5 6. Nd2 (pin broken, so must chop on c3) Bxc3 7. bxc3 and now the Knight on e4 is not long for this world. One attempt is to bolster it with 7...d5, so at least Black can take with the f-pawn and occupy e4 that way, but once White plays 8. Ba3!!, the White King is hopelessly stuck in the center of the board.
@Remote Chess Academy, this was very good, GM Smirnov. Many thanks for sharing.
So basically, you aim to transpose into the Rubinstein variation of the Dutch, without the risk of facing the Staunton, or that g4 gambit I can never remember its name. Sweet
Thankyou so much GM igor for making this video... As I encounter d4 with budapest gambit but most of the time attacked fails... Now I will play this system and crush my opponent
Glad this was helpful for you💛
Anish giri shared a story explaining why openings have INDIAN added to the name. in past there was a rule in Indian chess, pawn moved only 1 step per move, so every opening like e6,d6 is called "something something Indian"
Great variations simple and deadly
What if opp pushes pawn a3 to remove pin at start
I found one flaw here I think, because in the Qc2 line after Nf3 b6 White can play g4 it seems like? It looks super unpleasant and its +1 for white. A better try in spirit of this system would be to simply castle instead of Bxc3 and only after a3 you finally take and go Ne4 and then you can play the usual system.
Loving the content, and even the dad jokes 10:24
very simple nimzo indian system described here.. shall have to try it out
Is there any chance you can cover the Bogo-Indian or the Queen's Indian in future lectures? I would really appreciate it.
Why no Bxe4? Instead of Nd2 at 6:19
Fantastic video. I have 2 questions. What about 4.Hb3 and 3.Sf3?
I haven't won a SINGLE game trying this opening so far - simply because my opponents keep playing the classical London and none of this seems to work (around 1200 rating range in rapid). Help?
There are many great options against the london, one aggressive one is 1.d4-Nf6 2.Bf4-d5 3.e3-c5 4.c3-Nc6 5.Nf3-Qb6 for example. You dont have to play Qb6 of course, in general setups with a pawn on d5 and c5 and knights on f6 and c6 are very good against the london
@@Sandfox07but that's not the Nimzo Indian for black then? I thought this video covered the responses to d4 with the Nimzo Indian?
You can only play the nimzo if white allows it. The nimzo only occurs after the specific moves d4 Nf6 c4 e6 Nc3 Bb4. Everything else is not a nimzo. You cant play a nimzo against the london. You could try to play e6 b6 Bb7 against it, thats also a good setup I guess
@@Sandfox07 that was precisely my original point. 🙂 Unless I'm mistaken, the entire video is around the Queen's Gambit opening by white, to which you can then play the Nimzo. I find the title bombastic given most players don't play the Queen's Gambit these days as white. He should've cemented the point the Nimzo only works under these circumstances.
...I just realized the Nimzo might work against the Jobava London alongside the Queen's Gambit too. Not a bad video, but failing to mention clearly against which exact openings by white you can use the Nimzo is an oversight..
Pros and cons of this system vs 1..f5 and going for the same ideas please?
Please sir , alekhine defense for black .. I love GM Bortnyk how play that opening
I love the fun thumbnail for this video. It made me laugh.
i love it. Immediately adding this line to my repertoire... i just hope few people check this video out LOL
I beat a player who became NM later with nimzo-indian defense a few years ago and he played f3 variation.
Playing against Wendy bot White goes Bishop d2 instead of kc3. I can also comment, although to be expected, that the unusual, chaotic position does not give bots issues, they just calculate the board and find one winning move.
As a Dutch player I like the ideas. Interesting move order!
What if white plays 4. Bd2 removing the pin? What is black's best move?
GMIgor - can you help when black plays nf3 not nc3 (Bogo Indian)?
@gmigorsmirnov thank you for all your videos. Do you prefer this system vs Benoni? and why?
This is what I asked for. Thanks ❤️
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5.Qc2 prevents 5...Ne4 This is generally what's done in correspondence.
You should have kept this one under wraps Igor. Now I will bring the pain! 😀Thanks mate
I've been playing the same opening for 30 years: 1.e4 ( or e5 as black), then play chess as of move 2.
What if he moves his bishop to g5 as soon as your knight moves to f6? Does it then just become regular chess?
I like these suggestions for Black but when I play White I play 4 f3 which stops 4...Ne4. With the main line for Black it is interesting that 11 f3 seems to neutralize the Black attack.
Isnt this really a classical Dutch by transposition?
Remember when 1. a4 2. Ra3 wasn’t theory? Man those were the days.
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Btw its named "indian" because in the indian variant of chess (the old chess) pawns could only move 1 square, thats why the queens indian, the kings indian etc... are named indian bc u move the pawn only 1 square
recently won with this in under a minute, thank you man
What if white try to close B2-H8 line with his D or C pawn ?
My problem with the Nimzo is 3. Nf3. I guess I could try Bb4+ and hope for Nc3.
what if Nd2 after f5? f5 looks overcommitted because of that.
23:21 knight takes d5 isn't a blunder doesn't opponent wins knight with queen check ?
Спасибо, классное видео! Будет совсем нагло спросить что играем на 4.f3 ? :)
what if they play f3 instead of nc3?
Finally I can turn my brain off
With the bishop on b7 it reminds me of the owen defence.. and look! It's one of Igor Smirnov fav openings too xD :P
So, it's basically the dutch in a different move order?
22:55 they always play Nd2
He's an evil wizard, run!
this is basically just the dutch defence after 7 moves
No theory? I don't understand, wasn't that theory?
Typically, knowing "theory" means knowing all the 'only' moves to keep the advantage or balance in the position. No theory means you can use ideas (typically principles or priyomes) to narrow down the correct move. Since that is how chess is played positionalyl anyway, you need no theory to find such moves. You just need to know how to play (principled) chess correctly.
I always ask why nobody play knight e4 😂😂😂
Is like the London system, is more about put your pieces in the right places and give u ideias. A free beautiful system to play.
Yeah right, no theory... Point is, when one wants to play the Nimzo, he should also have an answer to the Queen's Indian, Catalan, English to name but a few. It is not just Nimzo theory. That is why i prefer the Queen's Gambit Declined or Slav.
It is all tatics
The nimzo indian is one of the most theoretical openings in all of chess 😭
great video!
Its called nimzo-indian because of b7 pawn and a fianchetto - called black's queens indian. They played that way in India - the indian - but nimzo indian is a second degree approximate, no need to answer why is it indian - just why is it nimzo indian.
What if they don't play queen's gambit line after queens pawn opening
Igor can you tell how to counter the same opening as i play on one side say as white then how to counter it with black please reply
Make a video of (SEMI SLAV) PLZ................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- My secret no theory variation!
(goes half an hour of theory)
I theorize someone was having a fun day when they made this thumbnail.
I like more on dutch defense system
What if 4.f3 ?
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What about they move a pawn to a2 at first?🤔
That transposed to Dutch defense