23 Feb 2018

A01 Nimzowitsch-Larsen Opening (1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5)

A01 Nimzowitsch-Larsen Opening (1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5)

The move 1.b3 (31169 games, score 50.9%) is 7th most tried first move, according to my reference database. More often seen moves were 1.e4 (3418269 games, score 52.9%), 1.d4 (2134323 games, score 54.5%), 1.Nf3 (525023 games, score 55.4%), 1.c4 (446529 games, 54.3%), 1.f4 (45271 games, score 48.6%) and 1.g3 (44283 games, score 55.1%). The reply 1...e5 (13202 games, score 49.8%) is the favorite move of most players. It has been played such strong players as Levon Aronian, Garry Kasparov, Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana. The logical follow-up to 1.b3 was 2.Bb2 (12740 games, score 50.1%), but other moves have been tried too, however much more rarely. Then I played 2...Nc6 (9708 games, score 49.8%), which has been clearly the most played move in the position. The next move, 3.e3 (7213 games, score 50.8%), is the most played move and Grand Masters like Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Maxime Vachier Lagrave have played it. My reply, 3...d5 (2076 games, score 50.7%), is the second most often played move in the position and it has been played players such as Hikaru Nakamura, Peter Heine Nielsen, David Howell and Ivan Saric have played it. GM Hikaru Nakamura (2760) played it in a game against GM Baadur Jobava (2711) at Beijing Sportaccord rapid blindfold on December 18th, 2012. The most often played move is 3...Nf6 (3176 games, score 49.7%). Then with the move 4.d4 (23 games, score 45.7%) my opponent went to a line that is rarely played and according to my reference database, no Grand Master has played the move. The following moves, 4.Bb5 (2022 games, score 52.8%), 4.Nf3 (141 games, score 49.3%), 4.c4 (43 games, score 39.5%), 4.d3 (32 games, score 48.4%) and 4.g3 (30 games, score 33.3%), have seen more play. I continued the game with the move 4...Bd6, which had not been played before in the position. The four moves that had been played before are 4...exd4 (12 games, 41.7%), 4...e4 (11 games, score 59.1%), 4...Bf5 (1 game, score 0%) and 4...Bb4 (1 game, score 0%).

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1.b3 e5       A01 Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5 A01 Nimzowitsch-Larsen Opening 4.d4 Bd6N 4...exd4 5.exd4 Nf6 5...Qe7+ 6.Be2 Bg4 7.h3 Bxe2 8.Nxe2 Qd7 9.0-0 g6 10.Nd2 Bg7 11.Nf3 Nge7 12.Nf4 0-0 13.Nd3 Rfe8 14.c3 1/2-1/2 (14) Asfora,M (2270)-Toth,C (2380) Guarapuava 1992 6.Nf3 Bd6 6...Bg4 7.Nbd2 Bd6 8.h3 Bh5 9.c4 0-0 10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Be2 Qe7 12.0-0 Ba3 13.Bxa3 Qxa3 14.Re1 Rfe8 15.Qc1 Qd6 16.Qc2 Bg6 17.Qb2 Ncb4 18.Rac1 c6 19.a3 Rxe2 20.Rxe2 Nd3 21.Qa1 Jauschneg,T (800) -Pernerstorfer,M (1085) Mureck 2015 0-1 (62) 7.c4 Bg4 8.Nbd2 Bb4 9.Be2 0-0 10.0-0 Re8 11.cxd5 Nxd5 12.Bc4 Bxd2 13.Qxd2 Bxf3 14.gxf3 Re6 15.Qc2 Qd6 16.Bc1 Rae8 17.Qf5 Rg6+ 18.Kh1 Nf6 19.Bf4 Jauschneg,T-Hanc,N (1426) Mureck 2017 1/2-1/2 (53) 4...e4 5.c4 Nf6 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Bc4 Be6 8.Ne2 Qg5 9.0-0 0-0-0 10.f4 exf3 11.Rxf3 Bd6 12.Nd2 Bg4 13.Ne4 Qg6 14.Nxd6+ Rxd6 15.Rg3 Re8 16.h3 Bxe2 17.Rxg6 Bxd1 18.Rxd6 cxd6 19.Rxd1 Da Rosa,H (1715)-Ferreira,C (1416) Hebraica 2016 0-1 (56) 5.Nf3 e4 6.Nfd2 Nf6 6...Nce7 is superior. 7.a3 7.c4= 7...Bg4 7...Ng4 8.Qe2 Ne7 8.f3 8.Be2= keeps the balance. Bxe2 9.Qxe2 8...exf3 9.gxf3 Bf5 10.Nc3 10.Bg2 10...Bg6 10...0-0-+ and Black stays clearly on top. Hoping for ...Ng4! 11.Bg2 Qe7 11.Nb5 Qe7 12.Nxd6+ Qxd6 13.Be2 0-0 14.Nf1 Rfe8 15.Qd2 a5 16.0-0-0 Reb8 16...a4 17.b4 Ne7 17.Ng3= b5 18.Rhe1 Ne7 19.Bf1 Ra6 Black should play 19...Nf5= 20.e4
Black must now prevent e5. 20...dxe4 20...Qd7 21.fxe4+- And now e5 would win. Qd7 21...Nd7 22.d5 f6 22.d5 a4
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1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.Nf3 f6 6.c4 Nge7 7.Nc3 a6 8.Ba4 0-0 9.0-0 Nb4 10.d4 e4 11.Ne1 Be6 12.a3 Nbc6 13.Bxc6 bxc6 14.c5 Bxh2+ 15.Kxh2 f5 16.f4 Kh8 17.Rh1 Ng8 18.Kg1 Nf6 19.Qe2 Ng4 20.Nd1 g5 21.Nf2 gxf4 22.exf4 Rg8 23.Nc2 Rb8 24.b4 Rg6 25.Nxg4 Rxg4 26.Qf2 Qg8 27.Rh3 Rf8 28.Ne3 Rg6 29.Bc3 Rf7 30.Be1 Rfg7 31.Qe2 Bc8 32.Bh4 Qf7 33.Qf2 Qe6 34.Bg5 Kg8 35.Kh2 h6 36.Bh4 Kf7 37.Rh1 Bd7 38.Kg1 Be8 39.Qe2 Qc8 40.Be1 Rh7 41.Rh5 Bd7 42.R1h3 Kf6 43.Qf2 Qf8 44.Qh4+ Kg7 45.Rg3 Rxg3 46.Qxg3+ Kh8 47.Qh3 Qg7 48.Qh4 Be8 49.Qd8 Qd7 50.Qf6+ Qg7 51.Qxg7+ Kxg7 52.Rxf5 Bd7 53.Re5 Kf7 54.Bh4 Kf8 55.Be7+ Rxe7 56.Rh5 Kg7 57.Kf2 Rf7 58.Kg3 Rf6 59.Re5 Rf8 60.Kf2 Kf6 61.g4 Rb8 62.g5+ ½–½
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