My System & Chess Praxis by Aron Nimzowitsch

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New in Chess

The concept of the center is a lot broader than that! See my notes in the Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1912, to the game Nimzowitsch-Salwe.

It is true that it is just the pawns that are best suited to the formation of a center, since they are the most stable element, but pieces positioned in the center can substitute very well for the pawns. And pressure exerted on the enemy center, emanating from rooks or bishops directed at it, can be of considerable significance!

This is the truly modern view, especially in the way that I have advocated it.

Dr. Tarrasch, however, assigns …dxe4 a question mark: ‘surrender of the center!’ And yet Black, in this position, with his d-file and the bishop diagonal b7-h1, has without a doubt a firmer presence in the middle (d5!) than his opponent, despite the ‘surrender of the center’!

I cannot fail to recognize the highly educative importance of Tarrasch’s linearity – for the beginner, particularly. But for the more advanced player, working by himself to improve his game, this lineal play is less recommendable.

So much for the variation 3…dxe4.

Let us now turn to the variation 3.e5. This move, which I have recently re-introduced, is disapproved of by Dr. Tarrasch. He presents his game vs. Leonhardt and writes, ‘White turns the game into a gambit, with all the chances and counter-chances of gambit play. More correct is c2-c3.’

The philosophical foundation I have established as a basis of the variation 3.e5, and which entitles me to make use of the move 3.e5 as my own intellectual property, is the following (see Diagram II).

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