[Event "The Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Introduction"] [Site "https://lichess.org/study/zXGzTPpO/tjZQT7pM"] [Result "*"] [Variant "Standard"] [ECO "A01"] [Opening "Nimzo-Larsen Attack"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/francesco_super"] [UTCDate "2017.06.22"] [UTCTime "13:47:52"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/zXGzTPpO/tjZQT7pM"] [Orientation "white"] { In this study we are going to go over a very unusual opening of whites: the Nimzo-Larsen attack. This opening is not very aggressive and it aims to control the centre of the board with the minor pieces. } 1. b3 { The Nimzo-Larsen Attack starts with the move b3 aiming to move the dark squared bishop in b2 to control the long dark-squared diagonal, putting enormous pressure on the g7 pawn. This opening is mainly for positional players who aim to build up a slow but efficient attack. } { [%cal Gc1b2,Gb2h8] } *