15.b3!
A most annoying move for Black. A bishop is often happiest on the first rank, where it keeps its options open. Here Black is going to have to castle. If he goes short, 16 Bb2 will follow as in the game; if he goes long, then the bishop can change its mind.
15...0-0
15...0-0-0 16.Bf4! cuts into the squares around the black king.
16.Bb2 g6
If 16...Rfd8 17.Qd3 followed by 18 0-0-0 would win easily for White. Sargissian's attempt to upset the white rook meets with short shrift.
17.Bxd4 Qc7 18.Bf6!
Two pawns down and unable to play 18...gxh5 because of 19.Qd2 threatening 20 Qg5 mate (or more slowly 20 Qh6 and 21 Qg7 mate), Black resigned.
A most annoying move for Black. A bishop is often happiest on the first rank, where it keeps its options open. Here Black is going to have to castle. If he goes short, 16 Bb2 will follow as in the game; if he goes long, then the bishop can change its mind.
15...0-0
15...0-0-0 16.Bf4! cuts into the squares around the black king.
16.Bb2 g6
If 16...Rfd8 17.Qd3 followed by 18 0-0-0 would win easily for White. Sargissian's attempt to upset the white rook meets with short shrift.
17.Bxd4 Qc7 18.Bf6!
Two pawns down and unable to play 18...gxh5 because of 19.Qd2 threatening 20 Qg5 mate (or more slowly 20 Qh6 and 21 Qg7 mate), Black resigned.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 447
A: e4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
C: a4 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
B: h3 – 1
👍 13%
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A: e4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
C: a4 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
B: h3 – 1
👍 13%
👥 8 people voted so far.
Unity Chess Multiple Choice 448
C: f5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
A: c5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
B: Nc4 – 1
👍 13%
👥 8 people voted so far.
C: f5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
A: c5 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
B: Nc4 – 1
👍 13%
👥 8 people voted so far.
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🔘 Aaron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
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🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
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☑️ #about_Nimzowitsch
🔘 Aaron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
🔹 Full name: Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Country: Russia & Latvia & Denmark
🔹 Born: 7 November 1886
Riga, Russian Empire
🔹 Died: 16 March 1935 (aged 48)
Copenhagen, Denmark
♦️ Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history. His works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.
🔸 He wrote three books on chess strategy:
Mein System (My System), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems (The Practice of My System), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade (The Blockade), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System. Mein System is considered to be one of the most influential chess books of all time. It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.
🔸 Nimzowitsch's chess theories, when first propounded, flew in the face of widely held orthodoxies enunciated by the dominant theorist of the era, Siegbert Tarrasch, and his disciples. Tarrasch's rigid generalizations drew on the earlier work of Wilhelm Steinitz, and were upheld by Tarrasch's sharp tongue when dismissing the opinions of doubters. While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound—core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood—beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.
♦️ A memorable game by Nimzowitsch which known "The Immortal Zugzwang Game" in chess world!👇🏼
🔘 Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Copenhagen (1923), Copenhagen DEN, rd 6, Mar-09
🔘 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical. Traditional Variation Nimzowitsch Line (E18)
♦️ Review and download Analysed by Nimzowitsch PGN file👇🏼
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🔘 Aaron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
🔹 Full name: Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Country: Russia & Latvia & Denmark
🔹 Born: 7 November 1886
Riga, Russian Empire
🔹 Died: 16 March 1935 (aged 48)
Copenhagen, Denmark
♦️ Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history. His works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.
🔸 He wrote three books on chess strategy:
Mein System (My System), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems (The Practice of My System), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade (The Blockade), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System. Mein System is considered to be one of the most influential chess books of all time. It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.
🔸 Nimzowitsch's chess theories, when first propounded, flew in the face of widely held orthodoxies enunciated by the dominant theorist of the era, Siegbert Tarrasch, and his disciples. Tarrasch's rigid generalizations drew on the earlier work of Wilhelm Steinitz, and were upheld by Tarrasch's sharp tongue when dismissing the opinions of doubters. While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound—core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood—beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.
♦️ A memorable game by Nimzowitsch which known "The Immortal Zugzwang Game" in chess world!👇🏼
🔘 Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Copenhagen (1923), Copenhagen DEN, rd 6, Mar-09
🔘 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical. Traditional Variation Nimzowitsch Line (E18)
♦️ Review and download Analysed by Nimzowitsch PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
@Saemisch-Nimzowitsch 1923.pgn
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🔘 Friedrich Saemisch - Aron Nimzowitsch, Kopenhagen (1923)
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🔘 Notes by Nimzowitsch’s "My System"
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🔘 PGN format
🔘 Notes by Nimzowitsch’s "My System"
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🔸Front Row: Jonathan Martinez
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