


Nc6 for Black, generally looking for an eventual. The coverage features well-annotated, recent GM games and is a great introduction to the Chigorin and anti-English lines with an early. This book has a very misleading title, since it is really a repertoire book focused on the Chigorin (1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6), the. Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings: Black (Batsford 2005) Christoph Wisnewski, Play 1.Nc6! A Complete Chess Opening Repertoire for Black (Everyman 2007) Though this book has a light-squared approach to the opening, with a focus on 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 lines (including 3.Nc3 e6) and the Chigorin (via 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6), it is still an interesting book with some fascinating sidelines (including the surprising 1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 Nf6!?) and very detailed coverage of early divergences by White, which you will not find as deeply treated elsewhere. Though the games are mostly those of Morozevich, the analysis offers up-to-date theory for the time. Alexander Morozevich and Vladimir Barsky, The Chigorin Defence According to Morozevich (New in Chess 2007) Who better to tell us about the Chigorin than the GM responsible for its revival, and someone who generally preferred an approach that strove for an eventual. I also link to some of my own analysis of lines considered in the book. James Schuyler, The Dark Knight System: A Repertoire with 1.Nc6 (Everyman 2013) Reviewed here shortly after its publication, this book offers a very coherent and solid repertoire built around a Kevitz-inspired dark-square approach to the Nimzovich with an early e5 by Black. I may also dig a few up in the future and will revisit this list if I do. I have tried to make the following 1.Nc6 bibliography as complete as possible and would appreciate any additions you can recommend. Recent publications continue to group some of these lines under "The Nimzovich" or "1.Nc6," but I suggest that we return to Walter Korn's idea of calling at least the dark-square e5-focused approach the Kevitz System ( Chess Review, August-September 1954) after the New York master who first experimented with these lines over 50 years ago. e5 (1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 e5), the Two Knights Tango or Kevitz-Trajkovich (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6), the Chigorin Defense (1.d4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d5 or 2.c4 d5), the Bozo-Indian or Lundin or Mikenas or Kevitz-Trajkovich (1.d4 Nc6 2.d5 Ne5), and several others. Nc6 is wide and varied and includes the traditional Nimzovich Defense (1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5), the Kevitz System or Nimzovich with. The Black repertoire that can follow from an early.
