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🔹 My Favourite Aggressive Opening For Black Against 1.d4 –
♛ Find the 1.b3 chess opening variations shown in the video in this blog-post –
In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov reveals one of his favorite chess openings for blitz games: the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack. This opening starts with the move 1.b3, followed by 2.Bb2.
Though it’s considered unconventional, the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack is actually a very simple setup. Your opponents are often unprepared, and you have plenty of interesting tricks and traps at your disposal.
The ‘sniper’ bishop on b2 will harass your opponent’s pieces long-term. Initially, it puts pressure on Black’s central pawns, and later, once you’ve castled, the bishop supports a powerful kingside attack.
GM Smirnov has been playing this opening for several years with great success, winning over 95% of my blitz games.
Watch the full video lesson to learn how to play this opening against both of Black’s main responses: 1…e5 (the Modern Variation) and 1…d5 (the Classical Variation).
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► Chapters
00:00 1.b3 Chess Opening, Nimzo-Larsen Attack
00:48 Targeting the e5-pawn and the diagonal
01:36 1) If Black plays 3…Bc5 (Modern Variation)
02:41 2) If Black plays 1…d5 (Classical Variation)
03:12 3) If Black plays 3…Nf6
04:32 Important Positional Idea (dark-square weakness)
06:51 4) If Black plays 3…d5
09:11 4.2) If Black plays 5…Qe7
11:28 Puzzle of the day
11:47 4.3) If Black plays 5…f6 (Mainline)
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