Opening Index by Names - and some Nimzovitch trivia
Click on the opening to go to the game. Multiple entries for the same name and/or ECO code refer to different games and aren't duplicate entries.
Pictured here is the great hypermodern GM Aron Nimzovitch, who probably holds the record for the most openings and variations named after one player. In addition to the Nimzovitch Attack, Nimzovitch Defense and NimzoIndian Defense openings he also has his very own variations in the Falkbeer Counter Gambit, Ruy Lopez, Sicilian Defense, Queens Indian Defense, Latvian Counter-Gambit, Philidors Defense, English Opening, French Defense, Caro-Kann Defense and the Benoni Defense. In addition the wrongly attributed French Defense Winawer Variation should also be named after him, Winawer played it once in his life whereas Nimzovitch really pioneered the opening and made it respectable; the French Defense and Caro-Kann Advance Variations should also be named after him.
Here's a few of his memorable quotes:
The isolated pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard.
Even the laziest king flees wildly in the face of double check.
The beauty of a move lies not in its' appearance but in the thought behind it.
First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
Steinitz had perhaps only one deficiency: he was ahead of his generation by at least 50 years!
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance are not sufficient.
OPENING INDEX BY NAMES OF OPENINGS
B05 Alekhine's Defense - Modern Variation
A51 Budapest Defense, Fajarowicz Variation
B13 Caro-Kann Defense - Panov-Botvinnik Attack
B01 Center-Counter Defense 2nd blog
A82 Dutch Defense - Staunton Gambit
A26 English Opening - Closed Variation
A39 EO - Symmetrical System - 4 Kts Game
C48 Four Kts Game - Rubinstein Variation
C12 French Defense - MacCutcheon Variation
C18 FD - Winawer Variation 5...Ba5
C57 Fried Liver Attack (Two Kts Defense)
D73 Neo-Grunfeld Defense (aka Fianchetto Grunfeld)
D86 Grunfeld Defense - Exchange Variation
D94 Grunfeld Defense 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e3
C33 KGA - Modern Defense 3...d5
C39 KGA - Fischer's Defense 3...d6
C32 KGD - Falkbeer Counter Gambit
E60 KID/Grunfeld Defense with 3.f3
E61 King's Indian Defense - 4.Bg5
E30 NimzoIndian Defense - Leningrad Variation
E56 NID - Rubinstein Variation
A00 Orangutan Opening (AKA Polish or Sokolsky Opening)
C41 Philidor's Counter-Gambit (Philidors Defense)
B09 Pirc Defense - Austrian Attack
B09 Pirce Defense - Austrian Attack (2)
A50 Queen's Fianchetto Defense
D37 Queens Gambit Declined - Classical Variation
D41 QGD - Semi-Tarrasch Defense
E15 QID - Nimzovitch Variation 4...b6
C65 Ruy Lopez - Berlin Defense 4.Qe2
C64 RL - Classical Defense 3...Bc5
C77 RL - Closed Defense - Anderssen Var
C85 RL - Double Delayed Exchange Var
C72 RL - Modern Steinitz Defense
C62 RL - Old Steinitz Defense 3...d6
C66 RL - OId Steinitz Defense 3...d6
C82 RL - Open Defense - Motzko Variation
B01 Scandinavian Defense 2nd Game
C47 Scotch Game, Four Kts Variation
A04 Sicilian Defense - Closed Var (in effect)
B88 SD - Fischer Variation (aka Sozin Attack)
B46 SD - Kan/Paulsen/Taimanov Var
B86 SD - Najdorf Variation - Fischer Var
B97 SD - Najdorf Poisoned Pawn Variation Keres - Fuderer
B97 SD - Najdorf PP Variation Fischer - Spassky WCH #7
B97 SD - Najdorf PP Var Fischer - Spassky WCH #11
B99 SD - Najdorf Variation 6.Bg5
B60 SD - Richter-Rauzer Attack
B62 SD - Richter-Rauzer Attack
B68 SD - Richter-Rauzer Attack