Play the Nimzo-Indian

Edward Dearing

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9781857447934

The Nimzo-Indian is one of Black's most universally popular and respectable answers to 1 d4. It could be said that no other opening allows Black to play for a win from such a sound positional basis, while its flexibility gives rise to a multitude of different positions rich in tactical and positional play. The list of Nimzo-Indian admirers runs like a who's who of the chess world: Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Anatoly Karpov, and Michael Adams are just a handful of top Grandmasters who have utilized it with great effect. With the Nimzo-Indian being such a fashionable opening, some Black players are put off by the possibility of having to learn a labyrinth of different variations. However, in Play the Nimzo-Indian, Edward Dearing solves this problem by constructing a concise and workable repertoire for Black, offering a solution against each of White's tries, whether it's a critical main line or a tricky side variation. Readers will gain the necessary knowledge and confidence to begin playing the Nimzo-Indian in their games. >Explains an opening favored by the world's elite >Written by a renowned openings expert >Covers all of White's main tries

Table of contents

• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 The Classical Nimzo: The Romanishin Variation
• 2 The Classical Nimzo: Preserving Tension with 5 a3
• 3 The Rubinstein Variation: The Romanishin-Psakhis System
• 4 The Rubinstein Variation: The Classical Fianchetto System
• 5 The Leningrad Variation
• 6 The 4 f3!? Variation
• 7 The Sämisch Variation
• 8 The Fianchetto Variation
• 9 4 Nf3: ‘And now for something completely different ... ’
• 10 Early Deviations
• Index of Complete Games
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