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The Nimzowitsch–Larsen Attack (also known as the Nimzo–Larsen Attack, Larsen's Opening and Queen's Fianchetto Opening) is a chess opening typically starting with the move: 1.b3 but sometimes introduced by the move order 1.Nf3 and then 2.b3. The flank opening move 1.b3 prepares to fianchetto the queen's bishop where it will help control the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Zukertort Opening: Nimzo-Larsen Variation: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3; ... Bg2 c6 4. 0-0 Bg4; A08 Réti Opening, King ...
Réti popularized these moves against all defenses in the spirit of hypermodernism, and as the opening developed it gained structure and a clearer distinction between it and other openings. Hans Kmoch called the system of attack employed by Réti in the game Réti–Rubinstein, Carlsbad 1923, [5] "the Réti Opening" or "the Réti System".
Sometimes the name "Réti Opening" is used for the opening move 1.Nf3, [1] although most sources define the Réti more narrowly as the sequence 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4. [2] A flank opening, it is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4. [3] [4] [5]
Hypermodern openings include the Réti Opening, King's Indian Defence, Queen's Indian Defence, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Nimzowitsch Defence, Grünfeld Defence, Bogo-Indian Defence, Old Indian Defence, Catalan Opening, King's Indian Attack, Alekhine's Defence, Modern Defence, Pirc Defence, Larsen's Opening, and to a lesser degree the English Opening.
If you search for Zukertort Opening in Amazon.com you instead find mentions of the Colle-Zukertort Variation, an opening that is unrelated to 1.nf3. If however you search Amazon.com for Reti Opening you find books that teach you the Reti and they all open with 1.nf3. Dionyseus 16:56, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
The characteristic KIA setup is 1.Nf3, 2.g3, 3.Bg2, 4.0-0, 5.d3, 6.Nbd2, and 7.e4, although these moves may be played in several different orders. In fact, the KIA is often reached after 1.e4 when White uses it to respond to a Black attempt to play one of the semi-open games such as the Caro–Kann, French, or Sicilian, or even the open games ...
Ponziani Opening – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 – named after Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani [7] Popov Variation of the Ruy Lopez – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a5 – named after Bulgarian correspondence player Georgi Alexandrov Popov [117] [118] Prie Attack of the Queen's Pawn Opening – 1.d4 d5 2.a3 – named after Éric Prié [119]