Nimzo-Indian Defense

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Named variations of the Nimzo-Indian Defense

Our opening book catalogues 64 named variations in this family. Here they all are:

• Bishop Attack
• Bishop Attack, Classical Defense
• Bishop Attack, Classical, Botvinnik System
• Classical Variation
• Classical, Berlin Variation
• Classical, Berlin, Pirc Variation
• Classical, Berlin, Pirc, Macieja System
• Classical, Berlin, Steiner Variation
• Classical, Keres Defense
• Classical, Noa Variation
• Classical, Noa, Belyavsky Gambit
• Classical, Noa, Botvinnik Variation
• Classical, Vītoliņš-Adorján Gambit
• Classical, Zürich Variation
• Deferred Hübner Variation
• Deferred Sämisch Variation
• Gligorić System
• Gligorić, Bernstein Defense
• Gligorić, Bernstein, Exchange Variation
• Gligorić, Bronstein Variation
• Gligorić, Bronstein, Smyslov Variation
• Gligorić, Bronstein, Ólafsson Variation
• Gligorić, Keres Variation
• Hübner Variation
• Hübner, Main Line
• Hübner, Rubinstein Variation
• Hübner, Rubinstein, Main Line
• Hübner, Rubinstein, Sherbakov Attack
• Keres Variation
• Kmoch Variation
• Leningrad Variation
• Leningrad, Averbakh Gambit
• Leningrad, Benoni Defense
• Mikėnas Attack
• Noa, Main Line
• Noa, Main Line, San Remo Variation
• Normal Line
• Reshevsky Variation
• Reshevsky, Simagin Variation
• Romanishin-Kasparov System
• Schlechter Defense
• Spielmann Variation
• Spielmann, Romanovsky Gambit
• Spielmann, Romanovsky, Karlsbad Variation
• Spielmann, Romanovsky, Ståhlberg Variation
• St. Petersburg Variation
• St. Petersburg, Fischer Variation
• St. Petersburg, Fischer, Normal Line, Bronstein Variation
• Sämisch Variation
• Sämisch, Botvinnik Variation
• Sämisch, Capablanca Variation
• Sämisch, Keres Variation
• Sämisch, Keres, Romanovsky Variation
• Sämisch, O'Kelly Variation
• Taimanov Variation
• Taimanov, Ragozin Defense
• Three Knights Variation
• Three Knights, Duchamp Variation
• Three Knights, Duchamp, Modern Line
• Three Knights, Korchnoi Variation
• Three Knights, Korchnoi, Euwe Variation
• Three Knights, Korchnoi, Shocron Gambit
• Three Knights, Romanishin Variation
• Three Knights, Romanishin, English Hybrid Variation

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