The Nimzo-Indian Defence is a hypermodern opening developed by Aron Nimzowitsch, characterised by 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
Featured Video: One of the games featured in Bobby Fischer’s “My 60 Memorable Games”, here Fischer throws Hungarian GM Lajos Portisch with a Nimzo-Indian and obtains a winning position in only fifteen moves.
Games:
- Topalov vs Aronian – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Norway Chess Rd8 – final chance gone
- Wang Hao vs Radjabov – Nimzo Indian – 2013 Norway Chess Rd4 – safe line
- Kramnik vs Kasparov – Nimzo-Indian – 2000 World Chess Championship Rd10 – the decisive break
- Botvinnik vs Capablanca – Nimzo-Indian – 1938 AVRO – all-time classic
- Radjabov vs Carlsen – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Candidates Rd13 – incredible tenacity under pressure
- Radjabov vs Grischuk – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Candidates Rd12 – winning chances
- Svidler vs Aronian – Nimzo Indian Saemisch – 2013 Candidates Rd11 – paying the price for overly-aggressive play
- Gelfand vs Kramnik – Nimzo-Indian- 2013 Candidates Rd7 – seemingly easy draw, but an overlooked motif
- Radjabov vs Kramnik – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Candidates Rd4 – unambitious draw
- Sokolov vs Leko – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Tata Steel Rd10 – well-prepared
- Sokolov vs Van Wely – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Tata Steel Rd9 – complex with numerous inaccuracies
- Sokolov vs Harikrishna – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Tata Steel Rd 7 – well-studied lines and almost complete equality
- Uhlmann vs Botvinnik – Nimzo-Indian – 1958 Chess Olympiad – double blunder
- Kasparov vs Karpov – Nimzo-Indian – 1985 World Chess Championship Rd11 – steering towards a blunder
- Wang Hao vs Hou Yifan – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Tata Steel Rd4 – gradually upping the pressure
- Giri vs Leko – Nimzo-Indian – 2013 Tata Steel Rd4 – calm amidst the storm
- L’Ami vs Karjakin – Nimzo Indian – 2013 Tata Steel Rd2 – active defence
- Sokolov vs Wang Hao – Nimzo Indian – 2013 Tata Steel Rd1 – theoretical dual
- Ivanchuk vs Wang Hao – Nimzo-Indian – Chess Olympiad Rd11 – too passive?
- Short vs Torre – Nimzo-Indian Defence – 2012 Chess Olympiad Rd8 – veteran upset
- Naiditsch vs Leko – Nimzo-Indian – 2012 Chess Olympiad Rd8
- Ivanchuk vs Wojtaszek – Nimzo-Indian – 2012 Chess Olympiad Rd4 – pressured into a knight sacrifice
- Ivanchuk vs Csom – Nimzo-Indian – Yerevan, 1989
- Gligoric vs Short – Nimzo-Indian – London, 1980
- Gligoric vs Larsen – Nimzo-Indian – 1967 Capablanca Memorial
- Portisch vs Fischer – Nimzo-Indian – Santa Monica, 1966
- Jones vs Hawkins – Nimzo-Indian – 2012 British Chess Championship, Rd 8
- Gordon vs Osborne – Nimzo-Indian Defence – 2012 British Championship Rd 5
- Gelfand vs Anand – 2012 World Chess Championship Game 11
- Gelfand vs Anand – 2012 World Chess Championship Game 9
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