Chess Opening Theory/1. b3
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Larsen's Opening
1. b3
Also known as Nimzovich-Larsen Attack or just Queen's Fianchetto Opening.
b3 prepares to fianchetto the queen's bishop where it will fight for the central squares and point towards Black's Kingside.
Statistics
Estimated next move popularity: e5 43%, d5 27%, Nf6 15%, c5 6%, b5 2%.
Theory table
For explanation of theory tables see theory table and for notation see algebraic notation
1.b3
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
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| Classical Variation | ... d5 | Bb2 c5 | e3 Nc6 | Bb5 Qc7 | f4 a6 | Bxc6 Qxc6 | Nf3 Nf6 | O-O g6 | = |
| Modern Variation | ... e5 | Bb2 Nc6 | e3 Nf6 | Bb5 Bd6 | Ne2 a6 | Bxc6 dxc6 | d3 O-O | c4 Be6 | = |
| Indian Variation | ... Nf6 | Bb2 - | |||||||
| English Variation | ... c5 | ||||||||
| Dutch Variation | ... f5 | Nf3 - | |||||||
| Symmetrical Variation | ... b6 | ||||||||
| Polish Variation | ... b5 |
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References
- Batsford Chess Openings 2 (1989, 1994). Garry Kasparov, Raymond Keene. ISBN 0-8050-3409-9.
- Eric Schiller (2002). Unorthodox Chess Openings (Second Edition ed.). Cardoza. ISBN 1-58042-072-9.
- Nunn's Chess Openings. 1999. John Nunn (Editor), Graham Burgess, John Emms, Joe Gallagher. ISBN 1-8574-4221-0.
- Modern Chess Openings: MCO-14. 1999. Nick de Firmian, Walter Korn. ISBN 0-8129-3084-3.
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