Nimzo Indian
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Top 10 Chess Players Who Play the Nimzo Indian Defense

The Nimzo Indian Defense is a chess opening played by Black. It’s considered a “hypermodern” defense involving a quick fianchetto of the black king’s-bishop, combined with d6. Black allows White to build a strong pawn center, only later hitting back with moves like e5 or c5. The Nimzo-Indian Defense was first played by Aron Nimzowitsch,…

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Viktor Korchnoi the Great!!

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains because you have suffered and worried over each mistake on the board. –Viktor Korchnoi How to spell “Political asylum”? Questioned Korchnoi to Antony Miles. Both the players were joint winners of the Amsterdam tournament, the first tournament of Viktor…

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Paul Keres “The Eternal Second”

Continuing the series of Legends who were near world champions! Today we cover Paul Keres, The Crown Prince of Estonia. Beginning of Chess Paul Keres was born on 7 January 1916 in Narva, Estonia. His father and brother taught him the basics of chess. As he lived in a small town, chess literature was scarce….