Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Spike Variation is a chess opening with the ECO code A01, part of the Nimzo-Larsen Attack family. It goes 1. b3 Nf6 2. Bb2 g6 3. g4. White opens with 1. b3 (the Nimzo-Larsen move) and Black answers 1... Nf6. After 5 moves it is Black to move. The lesson on the board explains every move of the line and lets you play it yourself; it is free.
The moves
1. b3 – White plays the pawn to b3
1... Nf6 – Black plays the knight to f6
2. Bb2 – White plays the bishop to b2
2... g6 – Black plays the pawn to g6
3. g4 – White plays the pawn to g4
About the Nimzo-Larsen Attack
White starts with 1.b3 and Bb2, controlling e5 and the long diagonal from afar. It is an offbeat but respectable flank opening.
The Bb2 bishop pressures e5 and g7.
White adds e3, Nf3 and sometimes f4 to control e5.
Black often takes the centre with ...e5 and ...d5; White attacks it later.
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