enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nimzowitsch Defence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimzowitsch_Defence

    The Nimzowitsch Defence (named after Aron Nimzowitsch) is a somewhat uncommon chess opening characterised by the moves: . 1. e4 Nc6. This opening is an example of a hypermodern opening in which Black invites White to occupy the centre of the board at an early stage with pawns. [1]

  3. Nimzowitsch–Larsen Attack - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimzowitsch–Larsen_Attack

    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.

  4. Aron Nimzowitsch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Nimzowitsch

    Aron Nimzowitsch (Latvian: Ārons Nimcovičs; Russian: Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world.

  5. Hypermodernism (chess) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermodernism_(chess)

    Aron Nimzowitsch, considered the founder and leading practitioner of hypermodernism, [1] showed that games could be won through indirect control of the centre, breaking with Tarrasch's view that the centre must be occupied by pawns. Nimzowitsch advocated controlling the centre with distant pieces rather than with pawns, thus inviting the ...

  6. List of chess openings named after places - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings...

    Aachen Gambit of the Nimzowitsch Defence – 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Nb4; Aasum Gambit of the Dunst Opening - 1.Nc3 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Bc4; Abbazia Defence of the King's Gambit – 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d5 [2] Adelaide Countergambit of the King's Gambit – 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5; Agincourt Defense of the English Opening – 1.c4 e6

  7. Olympians take to the Seine for a first-of-its-kind floating ...

    www.aol.com/news/2024-paris-olympic-opening...

    The organizers of Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games hope to provide relief, positivity and unity in a world increasingly beset with tension.

  8. Italian skier Brignone wins, Shiffrin takes 'big step' as ...

    www.aol.com/shiffrin-finishes-2-89-seconds...

    This season, she finished fifth in the season-opening GS in Austria in October before the crash in Killington happened. Shiffrin has won a women’s record 22 giant slaloms in her career and took ...

  9. French Defence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Defence

    Aron Nimzowitsch believed it to be White's best choice and enriched its theory with many ideas. The Advance declined in popularity, however, throughout most of the 20th century until it was revived in the 1980s by GM and prominent opening theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov, who continued to be a leading