The Nimzo-Indian Defense

what's up guys today I'm going to share with you my secret way of playing the nimzo Indian defense which is a great opening weapon for black against the Queen's pawn move Pawn D4 to this you respawn with Knight to F6 and by the way why not just play Pawn D5 the Queen's Gambit well it's a little bit dull and it's hard to get an active counterplay that's why nzo actually can be much more interesting especially with the way I'm going to share with you today now here after white goes Knight C3 they're getting ready to play E4 and to occupy the center but you play Bishop B4 and because the Knight is now pinned they can no longer push the Central Pawn forward because if they try that you're simply going to capture this Pawn is going to be a blunder they can't recapture it is just bad for white now the nimzo Indian defense is named after nimzovich and why is it called Indian maybe he dreamed about an Indian wife I don't know anyway he did a good job popularizing this system and his idea was that you don't have to necessarily put your wrong Pawn to D5 because you can just control these Central squares with your minor pieces which gives you more active play without just fighting for equality now here's the problem with the N defense and why most players do not wish to play it is just very complicated because if you think about this right now white can play virtually any move he wants he can play Knight A3 Pawn E3 he can develop this bishop to any Square he wants to Queen C2 Queen B3 A3 you got it right and it feels very intimidating to even start luring this system with that being said it's still a very good system to play because you can play it from beginner all the way to grandm level that's what I did I played it since I was maybe 10 years old and all the way to the GM level and again there's a very nice way of playing it which narrows it down fundamentally just to one aggressive setup that you can easily comprehend within this video and you can start playing right after this now although there are many moves that white can possibly play the most natural and the most common one is Knight F3 so let's begin with this move now after this I recommend that you play a super duper novelty 94 two exclamation marks and I'm giving it two exclamation marks of course not for the objective strength of the move is just a move but just for the fact that you narrow down all the theory to a single line that is easy to learn and hard for your opponent to deal with now what's the advantage of playing Knight E4 well there are many like you shut down this E4 idea once and for all they can't ever put their pwn there because it's now occupied by your own Knight now secondly you never have to deal with the bishop G5 pen which annoys many of you guys and know this so because if you played any other move there's always a risk that your opponent's going to go Bishop G5 put up this pen and you'll have to deal with it somehow when you go with your knight on e4 that's no longer an option if you ever goes Bishop G5 you just grab this bishop and it's game over for white therefore they can't do it now after Knight E4 you also attack these s on C3 which is pened therefore you just threaten to capture it and white will need to defend it one way or the other the most common way is Queen C2 but if they play any other move that's not going to change anything now let's say queen C2 that's the most played move because it both defends this Knight on C3 and also attacks your knight on e4 but we're not going to back down we're going to support this Knight with our Pawn from F5 which means that he can't take it with the queen this will lose the queen and the Knight is still pined therefore the knight from C3 cannot move at all therefore we just solidify our Knight over there now they usually play something let's say E3 now for now the remains to be the same their KN is pinned therefore we don't have to worry about this and here's the next thing you fan your queen side Bishop now why do you want to do that why do you want to go B6 followed by Bishop B7 well it's pretty clear that there's no bright future for your light score Bishop along this diagonal so you want to reposition it to a much better position now after let's say they go Bishop D3 by the way notice that now they want to grab it with their Bishop therefore you're right on time to support with your bishop and now you're once again really cool now your Bishop from bone first of all controls this Square E4 once again and as we can see right now it's already useful plus long term it's going to put pressure to his kinside and we anticipate him to Castle right there which will support your attack and we'll see in a moment that it can become devastating for white really quickly now a quick question is what if he takes right here well that's never a problem because if he captures it with a bishop you can recapture either with a bishop or with a pawn both ways are pretty great for you for instance if you take with a bishop B notied that this KN is still Beed can't move which means that you attack his Queen has to move away and he just allowed you to have this great Bishop on4 so that's one way you can also recapture with the pawn that's also good either way it means that this is not a problem now let's say they neutralize this be somehow so at some point for example they Castle away from the pen or they play Bishop D2 and they neutralize the pen if they do something like this therefore their Knight on the next move is actually free to go ahead and capture your knight on e4 then you want to trade it off now you want to trade off your dark Square Bishop because our Knight on e4 is such a strong piece it's one of the foundational elements of our attack and also blocking his position alog together they want to keep it there therefore you just trade off your Bishop in the current position there is also another upside that you also manage to create his double pawns which is another little bonus for you that you get out of this exchange but it doesn't matter too much the main thing is that we wanted to keep this monstrous Knight on e4 now after that you just C kingside and now we got into this pretty interesting position where at first looks like white plate casual moves everything's got to be good with him but the reality is much trickier because you have a very clear plan of attacking on the king side you've got your Bishop which looks there also thanks to this Pawn on F5 it's very easy for you to make a rook lift somewhere there and also add it your attack or similarly you can lift your queen right there as well and together with this pushop from B7 you can notice the pattern that we start putting together this devastating checkmating attack against his King and what is your opponent going to do it's much harder to answer that question there is no clear plan that your opponent can try to execute and usually just move around they're not really sure what to do and they go down pretty quickly the most played move by white here is the move Knight to D2 trying to trade off your powerful knight from E4 however we immediately take advantage of the downside of this move since the Knight is no longer on F3 it no longer guards these two squares G5 and H4 which makes it very easy for us to throw our Queen into the attack and you can do that by playing Queen H4 which serves both purposes first we're putting the queen closer to the king so that it solidifies our attack but secondly the queen also guards this s on e4 therefore if white takes it there is no problem we are still maintaining our guard of this Central Square and it's actually quite annoying for white because they wanted to trade off this Knight but they still can't really do that for instance if they take you just recapture with the pawn and now you attack the bishop it has to go back they have to you know put the bishop back to the passive square and lose Tempo doing so plus along the way we opened up this f file for our Rook which is also really great for our attack there's also a little trick along the way some of your pawns will play G3 thinking that you know they're kicking off the queen as it and as it goes back somewhere they can grab this Pawn on e4 but of course you can upset them with this nasty counter trick Pawn takes D3 so you let them grab your queen because after that you grab theirs and at the end of the day we're up peace another reaction of white is to play G3 straight away thinking to push your queen away just because after you played Queen H4 they feel uncomfortable they want to get rid of this annoying Queen and here comes some magic tricks which are very common for the system there are actually a couple funny tricks one of them is playing Knight G5 allowing them to capture the queen but after they do so all of a sudden is the sty snakey Checkmate deliver by the Knight very unusual and very cool but the way which I think is like stronger because here with Knight G5 you kind of rely on his blumber right I think Knight takes D2 with similar ideas is actually stronger and simpler for you to play now you still let them capture your queen and some of them may indeed go ahead and capture it they may think that you're going to take the Rook but you're not going there you play Knight of3 check and after the King goes somewhere doesn't matter you then have another nasty discover check Knight takes D4 check from this bishop you see that our Bishop is really playing like this super crucial role into our attack and after that are going to take their Queen on C2 so let's say here Knight takes C2 Bishop takes and by now it's getting clear that your opponent make his very best to get into chess books as an example of how not to play with his pawns right they're all doubled isolated weak and clearly that's should be easily winning for you all right let's assume your opponent is playing all correct moves therefore after you took here on D2 he simply recaptures what are you going to do then well although there is no immediate danger still we can notice this strong bishop and weaknesses around his King so that's what we're going to capitalize on now the most tempting idea would be to play Queen H3 trying to play Queen G2 mate but the problem here is that he can play Pawn F3 block the diagonal that way and now it's not very clear how you can you continue your attack from here therefore instead of Queen H3 I recommend that you play a trickier move Queen to G4 and from here we are controlling this Square therefore he can't play F3 anymore we would just grab this pawn and if he doesn't do anything we're going to play potentially Queen to F3 followed by Queen G2 mate so we have this kind of more profound maneuver which is hard for him to deal with and I'll just show you one game to that illustrates how difficult for white it is to cope with it in this game they play Rook E1 possibly getting ready to play E4 black played Bishop F3 also a nice move just to shut down this whole thing so that the king can never run away white played Bishop F1 you know trying to get control over these squares black played Rook F6 this is very common Rook lift we discuss it you use it in lots of variations of the system system cuz you want to just put all your pieces to the king side and check make him very straightforward white tried H3 trying to get rid of the queen but black just B ignored it and played Rook H6 now it turns out that black wants to capture this pawn and get to the king within two moves and if white tries to capture the queen himself then still Rook H1 Checkmate on a side note if you also Master the kin Indian defense and the queen Indian defense you may face the baby Indian attack so be careful now Jokes Aside of course let's come back to this position you want to show you one more attacking pattern that you can use and you don't have to memorize all these lines of course but the fact is we're going to aim for this particular structure and from here on you're going to need to know how to develop your middle game attack that's why I want to show you some common attacking patterns now another common way for white to play this position is to play a bishop A3 the move which seems to be perfectly logical for white they need to develop this bishop anyway and they put it to a long diagonal and attack your Rook what more can they ask for from a single move but in in fact this move is wrong because the bishop doesn't do all that much from here and you are going to make this Rook Le anyway Therefore your opponent is only helping you to execute your plan and from here this bishop attacks ampus it's not doing anything else therefore it's just a common error but it's it's going to show how difficult is for white to play now after Rook F6 you probably want to go Rook G6 and team up against his King something like this therefore white really needs to Russian do something uh White con plays Knight D2 these two want to neutralize this Knight and do something but you can still ignore it and play Rook H6 another cool thing you're getting ready to play Queen H4 and to hopefully Checkmate him soon now there are a couple of very interesting lines that may arise from this position if they play G3 thinking that now you can't throw your queen out of here what do you do you do it anyways Queen H4 and you still threaten boldly Queen H2 mate but how about them just T taking your queen well now you play a rook G6 check the King has to move move and here comes the final blow Knight takes F2 which is a double check from a knight and Bishop which means that this is also a Checkmate an interesting fact is what is gone here regardless of what they choose to play if they don't do anything you just take her with a Checkmate if they try KN of three attacking your queen for the second time and thinking that there is no way on Earth this queen is not moving from here you leave it right there and you play n G5 that's another brilliant move and here it's really great variation to collap a number of brilliant moves at Your Arsenal now after Knight G5 if he takes the queen there's Knight H3 checkm in better we've seen it in one of the previous variations and here it works as well now let's take it back what else can he play if he captures right here with a pawn then there is also a similar tactical Baron that we have seen in the previous line check to the keing and then we're ready to continue our attack one way or the other or to exploit the Discover check for instance if he goes here we can jump with our Knight somewhere exposing this discover check but in this case we don't even need the queen because we are actually checkmating the king if it goes back there was just Rook G6 and if it goes forward somewhere here we just keep chasing the king Bishop then Rook check here comes Rook check and they for example Knight to C6 check mate a really unusual line but you're actually likely to accomplish it in the actual game because whites previous moves were very natural to play Let's also talk about the station when your opponent is prudent and playing all the careful moves now in this case white should not play G3 generally speaking in this variation playing G3 is very dangerous for white because it exposes these diagonal but your opponent often is not aware of this until they're checkmating anyway if white takes here on e4 now you do not want to recapture because then he takes and he's getting more attack here than you so he is going to win a pawn but what helps you is this in between move Queen H4 threatening mate and if white plays H3 then now you can recapture and now your Pawn is guarded twice therefore he can take it that would just lose a piece and if he just goes back then after that there is no immediate Checkmate that you can accomplish I mean you can still try playing Rook G6 and then that threatens Queen takes H3 but if white plays some careful moves perhaps you cannot Checkmate him right away then you just turn into a more methodical development of your attack you play Pawn D6 bring your knight over here it's quite common for you to develop the Knight that way because if you put it to C6 it obstructs your own Bishop therefore you want to bring it right here so white plays let's say then you bring the Knight right here and now it's a harmonious position your Bishop is still active along this diagonal and your knight is ready to join the party you're ready to play Rook f8 and add this Rook into the attack your knight can keep jumping forward so you just start developing this attack gradually and you keep maintaining pressure against his kingside all right now let's explore certain other options that your opponents may choose to play here and once again the beauty of the system is that we're going to aim for the same system regardless of what your opponent chooses to play and that's why I do believe that this system is far superior for an average you know am player compared to anything else because usually chess tutorials just advise you a bunch of complex variations played by Carlson's and carps in the names of Indian defense but it's impossible to compreh hand all that now this system is much much simpler and much better now let's say why play something like E3 or Bishop D2 like any kind of little bit passive move now in that case of course you could play Knight E4 right away as we discussed previously however you don't have to rush with this move you can also first F encounter your queenside Bishop and in this position it's perfectly fine to do that because if they played E3 or Bishop D2 on the previous move then they're not threatening Bishop G5 anymore right that was the pen which annoyed us and we wanted to avoid that by playing Knight E4 quickly but now thanks to this Pawn you know he can't play Bishop G5 out and similarly if let's say White Water Play Bishop D2 it's unlikely that they play Bishop G5 on the next move right probably not that's why you're quite safe to play B6 and then Bishop B7 first so you're kind of a little bit hid in your actual T but let's come back to E3 because it's a lot more popular just going to go B6 then he probably will develop one of his pieces somehow you put the bishop out of here and you're already threatening this pawn and as white plays Knight F3 you then puts your knight on e4 right on time notice that the Knight is still pinned and that's important so he can take your knight and then we play Knight A4 now the Knight is pinned he can take it if he captures it with a bishop that's just an exchange or still cool fundamentally nothing changes too much and your Bishop is still pretty cool on e4 you're still going to play F5 maybe take on C3 at some point and develop all the similar attack that we discussed previously now probably your Pawn will notice that you're putting pressure against this Knight they'll want to defend it by playing Queen to C2 and then you can turn it back into what we discussed so far you can trade off this Knight double his pawns play Pawn F5 and we got the position we're aiming at then you castle and it's all the same stuff now let's move on to some ways that your opponent may try to use to disrupt your system and one of them is playing A3 straight away now after this exchange typically common tutorials recommend that you go after this Pawn on C4 by playing B6 special B6 moving your KN right there and after that again there's like very complex theory that arises from this guess what we're going to do instead we're going to bring it back to our system nevertheless and by the way I mean maybe it sounds cocky but I do believe that this free tutorial that you're watching right now is much better than lots of the bait courses about the nind that I've seen because again it's much more practical much more aggressive and if you're getting value also consider subscribing to the channel and hitting the Bell that supports the channel and makes it easier for me to record way more content for you in the future now so what are we going to do here we got to be ready because in this system when they want to really have this mass of Pawns in the middle of the board they often play F3 and E4 then and then you know you can't play your system so what do you do you go at E4 straight away that attacks the pawn and your opponent often feels uncomfortable about that but on top of that we also prevent him from playing this thing F3 because if he goes there we're not even going to take the pawn that's actually wrong for black if you take there the Knight is going to be trapped so let me show you so if you go that way the Knight is trapped we don't want that but instead there is a winning move for black which is Queen H4 check that's the trick now it's nearly Checkmate the only move to save it is G3 but then you sack the Knight right here and we take advantage of this pin and we attack The Rook anyway therefore you have to take then they lose the Rook therefore they lost the pawn and they exchange and you got a away Advantage you're also attacking the Knight over here everything's cool which means that they can't play Pawn F3 they have to probably guard this Pawn somehow and they usually play again the same with Queen C2 attacking your knight and guarding the pawn then we play Pawn F5 and it's basically all the same stuff if they ever play F3 it still fails to the same Queen H4 thing now I'm drawing it wrong it's like this and if he just plays KN F3 then we go B6 and guess what we brought it back to our system and hopefully we're going to have the strong kide attack on the following moves there's also another common move played by a lot of GMS but also a lot of am players is the move Queen C2 and at first once again it looks challenging because they do control the square with their Queen and they threaten to go E4 on the next move if you do nothing special therefore it looks like again your system cannot be executed but guess what we're going to push it down their throat anyway you just take here on C3 and again I would put two exclamation marks to this move not for the objective strength of the move but just for Simplicity again you don't have to learn any complex Theory because if you try studying main lines of this queen C2 variation like good luck there are thick books written just about the single operation alone but we're going to play Bishop takes C3 they'll probably recapture with the queen because that's the why they put their Queen on C2 on the first place they wanted to prevent you from capturing here and doubling your pawns that's why they'll probably capture like this but now this square is no longer defended and we can play Knight E4 attack of the Queen the queen goes somewhere and then as always when they attack the Knight we play Pawn F5 T once again we got the same thing right Knight of3 B6 Bishop B7 Castle all standard stuff now they they do not have double pawns right here on C3 which is a slight Advantage for white however generally speaking it doesn't change anything like after that if you look at this system all together like it's all the same stuff and the fact that the pawn is here not here doesn't change too much in your plan overall anyway you're going to attack right there on the king side you know in the middle game now we're going to need to talk about the move Bishop G5 which is about the only move that really not allows you to play the system you wanted to play luckily it's not a very popular move it's been played only in like 10% of games which means that you going to face it in one out of 10 games and objectively it's of course not very dangerous anyway it's just that you can't play the same system now what do you do in case Bishop G5 well what I recommend is you use the zigzag system like quite often people are just scared about this pin but you can also ask yourself another question which is interested what's the downside of this move and the downside is they reposition the Bishop from Queen side to the king side which means that their own Queen side is now no longer defended and you can Counter Strike there you do that by going Pawn C5 first which is a double purpose move first you attack Center but secondly you also open up this diagonal for your queen to escape from the pen number one and secondly to Counterattack and sometimes it can be really annoying for instance if why goes E3 it's already kind of wrong because you play Queen A5 straight away and notice that because of this Pawn they can't bring their Bishop back you know they can't defend their Queen side and now you're threatening Bishop takes C3 check and now we have this battery of pieces attacking it plus because of this pin we're also threatening to play 94 on the next move and add even more fire to our attack from here we're going to attack both the bishop and the Knight and you know white can go down pretty quickly from here so E3 is already kind of WR for white the main move and most played move is Pawn D5 now um maybe they want to play D6 and press your position so you play D6 yourself and then after whatever they play you then trade on D5 now the nice thing for us is that he can't still recapture with a knight it's still pained as always in the names of Indian defense so he's going to recapture like this and now we can play Knight B2 D7 and that solves the problem of this pen because we have the other Knight support in this one which means that your queen is always free to go wherever it wants and this be does not bother us Plus on the next move let's say white play something you can either just castle and play normal chess you know just finalize your development or you can rush into your own Counterattack with this zigzag thing right he went to the left side of The Bard so we're going to the right side right away we go Queen A5 putting this attack against his Knight now we don't worry about him taking this Knight because we've got the supported Knight we we're going to just recapture we're fine now white needs to defend this Knight somehow and finnally enough it's not easy to do that at all for instance if goes Queen D2 then yeah they're guarding the Knight but they're putting one more piece into the same line and we can take advantage of that by going Knight E4 and now they're going down completely we're attacking just way too much we're going to take on C3 on the next move and win so Queen C D2 doesn't work Queen C2 guards the Knight but drops this Pawn on D5 the queen no longer defends it so we can play Knight takes D5 we want a pawn and we keep attacking this Knight once again while it's going down it's not good how about Queen to B3 where it seems to defend both the pawn and the Knight guess what I mean you can go Knight E4 it's one of those common ideas that we discussed but it's even stronger to just play Knight takes C5 you temporarily sacrifice the Knight but on the next move you play Bishop takes C3 check and attack of the pawn and if he takes Queen takes C3 once again it's a double attack we win The Rook we keep attacking and we win the game is there any way for white to defend this Knight at all what about Rook to C1 well we still have this move Knight to E4 taking advantage of the bean but after The Rook goes to C1 there is an even smaller way to take advantage of this move is the move Queen takes A2 quite a sudden move we're still taking advantage of this pen and we shamelessly grab the pawn moreover we're going to grab the other one on the next move and threaten the Knight again and if they try to guard it somehow like Queen to D5 D2 you can play this really humiliating move Queen takes D5 I mean there are many moves that you can play with Queen takes D5 is a really great way to completely you know destroy your Pauls position and self-confidence because this Knight can capture this queen but it does really work because you capture their queen as well and then on the next move you also get back the piece and you end up with a couple extra pawns and winning position and if you want to level up your chest overall Beyond opening knowledge and moves then check out these free master class that levels up your position understanding either way have a great day

what&#39;s up guys today I&#39;m going to share with you my secret way of playing the nimzo Indian defense which is a great opening weapon for black against the Queen&#39;s pawn move Pawn D4 to this you respawn with Knight to F6 and by the way why not just play Pawn D5 the Queen&#39;s Gambit well it&#39;s a little bit dull and it&#39;s hard to get an active counterplay that&#39;s why nzo actually can be much more interesting especially with the way I&#39;m going to share with you today now here after white goes Knight C3 they&#39;re getting ready to play E4 and to occupy the center but you play Bishop B4 and because the Knight is now pinned they can no longer push the Central Pawn forward because if they try that you&#39;re simply going to capture this Pawn is going to be a blunder they can&#39;t recapture it is just bad for white now the nimzo Indian defense is named after nimzovich and why is it called Indian maybe he dreamed about an Indian wife I don&#39;t know anyway he did a good job popularizing this system and his idea was that you don&#39;t have to necessarily put your wrong Pawn to D5 because you can just control these Central squares with your minor pieces which gives you more active play without just fighting for equality now here&#39;s the problem with the N defense and why most players do not wish to play it is just very complicated because if you think about this right now white can play virtually any move he wants he can play Knight A3 Pawn E3 he can develop this bishop to any Square he wants to Queen C2 Queen B3 A3 you got it right and it feels very intimidating to even start luring this system with that being said it&#39;s still a very good system to play because you can play it from beginner all the way to grandm level that&#39;s what I did I played it since I was maybe 10 years old and all the way to the GM level and again there&#39;s a very nice way of playing it which narrows it down fundamentally just to one aggressive setup that you can easily comprehend within this video and you can start playing right after this now although there are many moves that white can possibly play the most natural and the most common one is Knight F3 so let&#39;s begin with this move now after this I recommend that you play a super duper novelty 94 two exclamation marks and I&#39;m giving it two exclamation marks of course not for the objective strength of the move is just a move but just for the fact that you narrow down all the theory to a single line that is easy to learn and hard for your opponent to deal with now what&#39;s the advantage of playing Knight E4 well there are many like you shut down this E4 idea once and for all they can&#39;t ever put their pwn there because it&#39;s now occupied by your own Knight now secondly you never have to deal with the bishop G5 pen which annoys many of you guys and know this so because if you played any other move there&#39;s always a risk that your opponent&#39;s going to go Bishop G5 put up this pen and you&#39;ll have to deal with it somehow when you go with your knight on e4 that&#39;s no longer an option if you ever goes Bishop G5 you just grab this bishop and it&#39;s game over for white therefore they can&#39;t do it now after Knight E4 you also attack these s on C3 which is pened therefore you just threaten to capture it and white will need to defend it one way or the other the most common way is Queen C2 but if they play any other move that&#39;s not going to change anything now let&#39;s say queen C2 that&#39;s the most played move because it both defends this Knight on C3 and also attacks your knight on e4 but we&#39;re not going to back down we&#39;re going to support this Knight with our Pawn from F5 which means that he can&#39;t take it with the queen this will lose the queen and the Knight is still pined therefore the knight from C3 cannot move at all therefore we just solidify our Knight over there now they usually play something let&#39;s say E3 now for now the remains to be the same their KN is pinned therefore we don&#39;t have to worry about this and here&#39;s the next thing you fan your queen side Bishop now why do you want to do that why do you want to go B6 followed by Bishop B7 well it&#39;s pretty clear that there&#39;s no bright future for your light score Bishop along this diagonal so you want to reposition it to a much better position now after let&#39;s say they go Bishop D3 by the way notice that now they want to grab it with their Bishop therefore you&#39;re right on time to support with your bishop and now you&#39;re once again really cool now your Bishop from bone first of all controls this Square E4 once again and as we can see right now it&#39;s already useful plus long term it&#39;s going to put pressure to his kinside and we anticipate him to Castle right there which will support your attack and we&#39;ll see in a moment that it can become devastating for white really quickly now a quick question is what if he takes right here well that&#39;s never a problem because if he captures it with a bishop you can recapture either with a bishop or with a pawn both ways are pretty great for you for instance if you take with a bishop B notied that this KN is still Beed can&#39;t move which means that you attack his Queen has to move away and he just allowed you to have this great Bishop on4 so that&#39;s one way you can also recapture with the pawn that&#39;s also good either way it means that this is not a problem now let&#39;s say they neutralize this be somehow so at some point for example they Castle away from the pen or they play Bishop D2 and they neutralize the pen if they do something like this therefore their Knight on the next move is actually free to go ahead and capture your knight on e4 then you want to trade it off now you want to trade off your dark Square Bishop because our Knight on e4 is such a strong piece it&#39;s one of the foundational elements of our attack and also blocking his position alog together they want to keep it there therefore you just trade off your Bishop in the current position there is also another upside that you also manage to create his double pawns which is another little bonus for you that you get out of this exchange but it doesn&#39;t matter too much the main thing is that we wanted to keep this monstrous Knight on e4 now after that you just C kingside and now we got into this pretty interesting position where at first looks like white plate casual moves everything&#39;s got to be good with him but the reality is much trickier because you have a very clear plan of attacking on the king side you&#39;ve got your Bishop which looks there also thanks to this Pawn on F5 it&#39;s very easy for you to make a rook lift somewhere there and also add it your attack or similarly you can lift your queen right there as well and together with this pushop from B7 you can notice the pattern that we start putting together this devastating checkmating attack against his King and what is your opponent going to do it&#39;s much harder to answer that question there is no clear plan that your opponent can try to execute and usually just move around they&#39;re not really sure what to do and they go down pretty quickly the most played move by white here is the move Knight to D2 trying to trade off your powerful knight from E4 however we immediately take advantage of the downside of this move since the Knight is no longer on F3 it no longer guards these two squares G5 and H4 which makes it very easy for us to throw our Queen into the attack and you can do that by playing Queen H4 which serves both purposes first we&#39;re putting the queen closer to the king so that it solidifies our attack but secondly the queen also guards this s on e4 therefore if white takes it there is no problem we are still maintaining our guard of this Central Square and it&#39;s actually quite annoying for white because they wanted to trade off this Knight but they still can&#39;t really do that for instance if they take you just recapture with the pawn and now you attack the bishop it has to go back they have to you know put the bishop back to the passive square and lose Tempo doing so plus along the way we opened up this f file for our Rook which is also really great for our attack there&#39;s also a little trick along the way some of your pawns will play G3 thinking that you know they&#39;re kicking off the queen as it and as it goes back somewhere they can grab this Pawn on e4 but of course you can upset them with this nasty counter trick Pawn takes D3 so you let them grab your queen because after that you grab theirs and at the end of the day we&#39;re up peace another reaction of white is to play G3 straight away thinking to push your queen away just because after you played Queen H4 they feel uncomfortable they want to get rid of this annoying Queen and here comes some magic tricks which are very common for the system there are actually a couple funny tricks one of them is playing Knight G5 allowing them to capture the queen but after they do so all of a sudden is the sty snakey Checkmate deliver by the Knight very unusual and very cool but the way which I think is like stronger because here with Knight G5 you kind of rely on his blumber right I think Knight takes D2 with similar ideas is actually stronger and simpler for you to play now you still let them capture your queen and some of them may indeed go ahead and capture it they may think that you&#39;re going to take the Rook but you&#39;re not going there you play Knight of3 check and after the King goes somewhere doesn&#39;t matter you then have another nasty discover check Knight takes D4 check from this bishop you see that our Bishop is really playing like this super crucial role into our attack and after that are going to take their Queen on C2 so let&#39;s say here Knight takes C2 Bishop takes and by now it&#39;s getting clear that your opponent make his very best to get into chess books as an example of how not to play with his pawns right they&#39;re all doubled isolated weak and clearly that&#39;s should be easily winning for you all right let&#39;s assume your opponent is playing all correct moves therefore after you took here on D2 he simply recaptures what are you going to do then well although there is no immediate danger still we can notice this strong bishop and weaknesses around his King so that&#39;s what we&#39;re going to capitalize on now the most tempting idea would be to play Queen H3 trying to play Queen G2 mate but the problem here is that he can play Pawn F3 block the diagonal that way and now it&#39;s not very clear how you can you continue your attack from here therefore instead of Queen H3 I recommend that you play a trickier move Queen to G4 and from here we are controlling this Square therefore he can&#39;t play F3 anymore we would just grab this pawn and if he doesn&#39;t do anything we&#39;re going to play potentially Queen to F3 followed by Queen G2 mate so we have this kind of more profound maneuver which is hard for him to deal with and I&#39;ll just show you one game to that illustrates how difficult for white it is to cope with it in this game they play Rook E1 possibly getting ready to play E4 black played Bishop F3 also a nice move just to shut down this whole thing so that the king can never run away white played Bishop F1 you know trying to get control over these squares black played Rook F6 this is very common Rook lift we discuss it you use it in lots of variations of the system system cuz you want to just put all your pieces to the king side and check make him very straightforward white tried H3 trying to get rid of the queen but black just B ignored it and played Rook H6 now it turns out that black wants to capture this pawn and get to the king within two moves and if white tries to capture the queen himself then still Rook H1 Checkmate on a side note if you also Master the kin Indian defense and the queen Indian defense you may face the baby Indian attack so be careful now Jokes Aside of course let&#39;s come back to this position you want to show you one more attacking pattern that you can use and you don&#39;t have to memorize all these lines of course but the fact is we&#39;re going to aim for this particular structure and from here on you&#39;re going to need to know how to develop your middle game attack that&#39;s why I want to show you some common attacking patterns now another common way for white to play this position is to play a bishop A3 the move which seems to be perfectly logical for white they need to develop this bishop anyway and they put it to a long diagonal and attack your Rook what more can they ask for from a single move but in in fact this move is wrong because the bishop doesn&#39;t do all that much from here and you are going to make this Rook Le anyway Therefore your opponent is only helping you to execute your plan and from here this bishop attacks ampus it&#39;s not doing anything else therefore it&#39;s just a common error but it&#39;s it&#39;s going to show how difficult is for white to play now after Rook F6 you probably want to go Rook G6 and team up against his King something like this therefore white really needs to Russian do something uh White con plays Knight D2 these two want to neutralize this Knight and do something but you can still ignore it and play Rook H6 another cool thing you&#39;re getting ready to play Queen H4 and to hopefully Checkmate him soon now there are a couple of very interesting lines that may arise from this position if they play G3 thinking that now you can&#39;t throw your queen out of here what do you do you do it anyways Queen H4 and you still threaten boldly Queen H2 mate but how about them just T taking your queen well now you play a rook G6 check the King has to move move and here comes the final blow Knight takes F2 which is a double check from a knight and Bishop which means that this is also a Checkmate an interesting fact is what is gone here regardless of what they choose to play if they don&#39;t do anything you just take her with a Checkmate if they try KN of three attacking your queen for the second time and thinking that there is no way on Earth this queen is not moving from here you leave it right there and you play n G5 that&#39;s another brilliant move and here it&#39;s really great variation to collap a number of brilliant moves at Your Arsenal now after Knight G5 if he takes the queen there&#39;s Knight H3 checkm in better we&#39;ve seen it in one of the previous variations and here it works as well now let&#39;s take it back what else can he play if he captures right here with a pawn then there is also a similar tactical Baron that we have seen in the previous line check to the keing and then we&#39;re ready to continue our attack one way or the other or to exploit the Discover check for instance if he goes here we can jump with our Knight somewhere exposing this discover check but in this case we don&#39;t even need the queen because we are actually checkmating the king if it goes back there was just Rook G6 and if it goes forward somewhere here we just keep chasing the king Bishop then Rook check here comes Rook check and they for example Knight to C6 check mate a really unusual line but you&#39;re actually likely to accomplish it in the actual game because whites previous moves were very natural to play Let&#39;s also talk about the station when your opponent is prudent and playing all the careful moves now in this case white should not play G3 generally speaking in this variation playing G3 is very dangerous for white because it exposes these diagonal but your opponent often is not aware of this until they&#39;re checkmating anyway if white takes here on e4 now you do not want to recapture because then he takes and he&#39;s getting more attack here than you so he is going to win a pawn but what helps you is this in between move Queen H4 threatening mate and if white plays H3 then now you can recapture and now your Pawn is guarded twice therefore he can take it that would just lose a piece and if he just goes back then after that there is no immediate Checkmate that you can accomplish I mean you can still try playing Rook G6 and then that threatens Queen takes H3 but if white plays some careful moves perhaps you cannot Checkmate him right away then you just turn into a more methodical development of your attack you play Pawn D6 bring your knight over here it&#39;s quite common for you to develop the Knight that way because if you put it to C6 it obstructs your own Bishop therefore you want to bring it right here so white plays let&#39;s say then you bring the Knight right here and now it&#39;s a harmonious position your Bishop is still active along this diagonal and your knight is ready to join the party you&#39;re ready to play Rook f8 and add this Rook into the attack your knight can keep jumping forward so you just start developing this attack gradually and you keep maintaining pressure against his kingside all right now let&#39;s explore certain other options that your opponents may choose to play here and once again the beauty of the system is that we&#39;re going to aim for the same system regardless of what your opponent chooses to play and that&#39;s why I do believe that this system is far superior for an average you know am player compared to anything else because usually chess tutorials just advise you a bunch of complex variations played by Carlson&#39;s and carps in the names of Indian defense but it&#39;s impossible to compreh hand all that now this system is much much simpler and much better now let&#39;s say why play something like E3 or Bishop D2 like any kind of little bit passive move now in that case of course you could play Knight E4 right away as we discussed previously however you don&#39;t have to rush with this move you can also first F encounter your queenside Bishop and in this position it&#39;s perfectly fine to do that because if they played E3 or Bishop D2 on the previous move then they&#39;re not threatening Bishop G5 anymore right that was the pen which annoyed us and we wanted to avoid that by playing Knight E4 quickly but now thanks to this Pawn you know he can&#39;t play Bishop G5 out and similarly if let&#39;s say White Water Play Bishop D2 it&#39;s unlikely that they play Bishop G5 on the next move right probably not that&#39;s why you&#39;re quite safe to play B6 and then Bishop B7 first so you&#39;re kind of a little bit hid in your actual T but let&#39;s come back to E3 because it&#39;s a lot more popular just going to go B6 then he probably will develop one of his pieces somehow you put the bishop out of here and you&#39;re already threatening this pawn and as white plays Knight F3 you then puts your knight on e4 right on time notice that the Knight is still pinned and that&#39;s important so he can take your knight and then we play Knight A4 now the Knight is pinned he can take it if he captures it with a bishop that&#39;s just an exchange or still cool fundamentally nothing changes too much and your Bishop is still pretty cool on e4 you&#39;re still going to play F5 maybe take on C3 at some point and develop all the similar attack that we discussed previously now probably your Pawn will notice that you&#39;re putting pressure against this Knight they&#39;ll want to defend it by playing Queen to C2 and then you can turn it back into what we discussed so far you can trade off this Knight double his pawns play Pawn F5 and we got the position we&#39;re aiming at then you castle and it&#39;s all the same stuff now let&#39;s move on to some ways that your opponent may try to use to disrupt your system and one of them is playing A3 straight away now after this exchange typically common tutorials recommend that you go after this Pawn on C4 by playing B6 special B6 moving your KN right there and after that again there&#39;s like very complex theory that arises from this guess what we&#39;re going to do instead we&#39;re going to bring it back to our system nevertheless and by the way I mean maybe it sounds cocky but I do believe that this free tutorial that you&#39;re watching right now is much better than lots of the bait courses about the nind that I&#39;ve seen because again it&#39;s much more practical much more aggressive and if you&#39;re getting value also consider subscribing to the channel and hitting the Bell that supports the channel and makes it easier for me to record way more content for you in the future now so what are we going to do here we got to be ready because in this system when they want to really have this mass of Pawns in the middle of the board they often play F3 and E4 then and then you know you can&#39;t play your system so what do you do you go at E4 straight away that attacks the pawn and your opponent often feels uncomfortable about that but on top of that we also prevent him from playing this thing F3 because if he goes there we&#39;re not even going to take the pawn that&#39;s actually wrong for black if you take there the Knight is going to be trapped so let me show you so if you go that way the Knight is trapped we don&#39;t want that but instead there is a winning move for black which is Queen H4 check that&#39;s the trick now it&#39;s nearly Checkmate the only move to save it is G3 but then you sack the Knight right here and we take advantage of this pin and we attack The Rook anyway therefore you have to take then they lose the Rook therefore they lost the pawn and they exchange and you got a away Advantage you&#39;re also attacking the Knight over here everything&#39;s cool which means that they can&#39;t play Pawn F3 they have to probably guard this Pawn somehow and they usually play again the same with Queen C2 attacking your knight and guarding the pawn then we play Pawn F5 and it&#39;s basically all the same stuff if they ever play F3 it still fails to the same Queen H4 thing now I&#39;m drawing it wrong it&#39;s like this and if he just plays KN F3 then we go B6 and guess what we brought it back to our system and hopefully we&#39;re going to have the strong kide attack on the following moves there&#39;s also another common move played by a lot of GMS but also a lot of am players is the move Queen C2 and at first once again it looks challenging because they do control the square with their Queen and they threaten to go E4 on the next move if you do nothing special therefore it looks like again your system cannot be executed but guess what we&#39;re going to push it down their throat anyway you just take here on C3 and again I would put two exclamation marks to this move not for the objective strength of the move but just for Simplicity again you don&#39;t have to learn any complex Theory because if you try studying main lines of this queen C2 variation like good luck there are thick books written just about the single operation alone but we&#39;re going to play Bishop takes C3 they&#39;ll probably recapture with the queen because that&#39;s the why they put their Queen on C2 on the first place they wanted to prevent you from capturing here and doubling your pawns that&#39;s why they&#39;ll probably capture like this but now this square is no longer defended and we can play Knight E4 attack of the Queen the queen goes somewhere and then as always when they attack the Knight we play Pawn F5 T once again we got the same thing right Knight of3 B6 Bishop B7 Castle all standard stuff now they they do not have double pawns right here on C3 which is a slight Advantage for white however generally speaking it doesn&#39;t change anything like after that if you look at this system all together like it&#39;s all the same stuff and the fact that the pawn is here not here doesn&#39;t change too much in your plan overall anyway you&#39;re going to attack right there on the king side you know in the middle game now we&#39;re going to need to talk about the move Bishop G5 which is about the only move that really not allows you to play the system you wanted to play luckily it&#39;s not a very popular move it&#39;s been played only in like 10% of games which means that you going to face it in one out of 10 games and objectively it&#39;s of course not very dangerous anyway it&#39;s just that you can&#39;t play the same system now what do you do in case Bishop G5 well what I recommend is you use the zigzag system like quite often people are just scared about this pin but you can also ask yourself another question which is interested what&#39;s the downside of this move and the downside is they reposition the Bishop from Queen side to the king side which means that their own Queen side is now no longer defended and you can Counter Strike there you do that by going Pawn C5 first which is a double purpose move first you attack Center but secondly you also open up this diagonal for your queen to escape from the pen number one and secondly to Counterattack and sometimes it can be really annoying for instance if why goes E3 it&#39;s already kind of wrong because you play Queen A5 straight away and notice that because of this Pawn they can&#39;t bring their Bishop back you know they can&#39;t defend their Queen side and now you&#39;re threatening Bishop takes C3 check and now we have this battery of pieces attacking it plus because of this pin we&#39;re also threatening to play 94 on the next move and add even more fire to our attack from here we&#39;re going to attack both the bishop and the Knight and you know white can go down pretty quickly from here so E3 is already kind of WR for white the main move and most played move is Pawn D5 now um maybe they want to play D6 and press your position so you play D6 yourself and then after whatever they play you then trade on D5 now the nice thing for us is that he can&#39;t still recapture with a knight it&#39;s still pained as always in the names of Indian defense so he&#39;s going to recapture like this and now we can play Knight B2 D7 and that solves the problem of this pen because we have the other Knight support in this one which means that your queen is always free to go wherever it wants and this be does not bother us Plus on the next move let&#39;s say white play something you can either just castle and play normal chess you know just finalize your development or you can rush into your own Counterattack with this zigzag thing right he went to the left side of The Bard so we&#39;re going to the right side right away we go Queen A5 putting this attack against his Knight now we don&#39;t worry about him taking this Knight because we&#39;ve got the supported Knight we we&#39;re going to just recapture we&#39;re fine now white needs to defend this Knight somehow and finnally enough it&#39;s not easy to do that at all for instance if goes Queen D2 then yeah they&#39;re guarding the Knight but they&#39;re putting one more piece into the same line and we can take advantage of that by going Knight E4 and now they&#39;re going down completely we&#39;re attacking just way too much we&#39;re going to take on C3 on the next move and win so Queen C D2 doesn&#39;t work Queen C2 guards the Knight but drops this Pawn on D5 the queen no longer defends it so we can play Knight takes D5 we want a pawn and we keep attacking this Knight once again while it&#39;s going down it&#39;s not good how about Queen to B3 where it seems to defend both the pawn and the Knight guess what I mean you can go Knight E4 it&#39;s one of those common ideas that we discussed but it&#39;s even stronger to just play Knight takes C5 you temporarily sacrifice the Knight but on the next move you play Bishop takes C3 check and attack of the pawn and if he takes Queen takes C3 once again it&#39;s a double attack we win The Rook we keep attacking and we win the game is there any way for white to defend this Knight at all what about Rook to C1 well we still have this move Knight to E4 taking advantage of the bean but after The Rook goes to C1 there is an even smaller way to take advantage of this move is the move Queen takes A2 quite a sudden move we&#39;re still taking advantage of this pen and we shamelessly grab the pawn moreover we&#39;re going to grab the other one on the next move and threaten the Knight again and if they try to guard it somehow like Queen to D5 D2 you can play this really humiliating move Queen takes D5 I mean there are many moves that you can play with Queen takes D5 is a really great way to completely you know destroy your Pauls position and self-confidence because this Knight can capture this queen but it does really work because you capture their queen as well and then on the next move you also get back the piece and you end up with a couple extra pawns and winning position and if you want to level up your chest overall Beyond opening knowledge and moves 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Transcript for:The Nimzo-Indian Defense

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The Nimzo-Indian Defense