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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.
This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system.The chess openings are categorised into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").
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".
The Zukertort Opening is a chess opening named after Johannes Zukertort that begins with the move: . 1. Nf3. 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.
Howard Staunton and many of his 19th-century contemporaries understood various ideas associated with hypermodernism. [2] The Hypermodern school of chess theory came to prominence in the 1920s. Leading members were Aron Nimzowitsch , Richard Réti , Savielly Tartakower , Gyula Breyer , Efim Bogoljubov , and Ernst Grünfeld , who all came from ...
These openings are played often, and 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 trail only 1.e4 and 1.d4 in popularity as opening moves. If White opens with 1.Nf3, the game often becomes one of the d4 openings (closed games or semi-closed games) by a different move order (called transposition ), but unique openings such as the Réti and King's Indian Attack are also common.
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 Bogo-Indian Defence is named after the Russian-born German master Efim Bogoljubow who is believed to have originated the opening and played it regularly in the 1920s. . Subsequent prominent players to have adopted the Bogo-Indian include Aron Nimzowitsch, Paul Keres, Tigran Petrosian, Bent Larsen, Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, Ulf Andersson, Michael Adams and Nikita Vitiug