1.e4 e5 2.d4 Nc6 is obviously a Danish Gambit Avoided.

Ok Im starting my first post so bear with me!!! Recently I have become enamoured with the games of the late Tony Miles who proved that unorthodox openings could be great weapons all the way up to the highest level. Miles loved to play the Nimzowitsch defense (1.e4 Nc6!) and had a good record with it. Basically I have been an opening addict for some time playing everything from the fiery Sicilian Dragon to the boring but ultra solid Dutch Stonewall, you name it I have played it. But the Nimzo was something I never played. As I have been dabbling with this opening, I have enjoyed good results from the highly original positions that arise as well as simply *creating* my own lines. Here is were we come to our subject.Miles also played the sister opening of the Nimzowitsch defense, the  Re: Queen's Knight Defense, aka the Kevitz-Trajovic Defense (1.d4 Nc6!) This opening looked just like the Nimzo, and since white often goes for a full pawn centre in both openings I figured they were probably simaler in theory and the ideas should be rather simaler. The best part was that it is VERY uncommon, and trying to find info or theory is next to immpossible. Miles as usual is probably the most famous practitioner, but even he only really dabbled in it playing it under 15 times in his life. MCO breaks the opening down into 2 systems; one with blacks second move being e5 right off the go (attributing the sytem to Mikenas of Lithuania, and the earlier mentioned Kevitz-Trajkovic system which emphesises playing 2...Nf6, and usually locking in the dark squared Bishop which believe it or not has some merit. Both of these sytems are actually quite fun to play if this kind of thing is your bag.  
MCO calls the Kevitz-Tajkovic a type of Alekine for the d-pawn, and state that Kevitz was a virtuoso in handling the intricacies of this sytem. Unfortuantly I havent found any games of him playing his beloved system, but did find out he beat Capablanca in the shortest moves of any player ever!. 

So there are some independant lines where white played pseudo-aggressivly with d4 then f4 then e4 all attcking the knight and building his center. My experience has shown these lines to be almost harmless, as you actually want the Nc6 at g6 anyway, and the big center is your target of attack!
I think I am prefering the Mikenas sytem, as I love exchanging my dark squared bishop at b4 for either his dark squared bishop, which leads to obvious weaknesses on the dark squares after d6 by black, or exchanging it for a Knight in a closed position! Either way, you have pawns at e5 and d6, bishop is gone and you are in a very solid closed game. I have found that white almost has to play on the k-side, as the q-side is easily closed up with blackes dark square bind. So you can expect moves like and eventual f4 for white. This is what he plays 90% of the time, and Im telling you the truth these lines are not only defendable fro black, but this is where *black* is playing anyways. Remeber how Silman says to play "where you pawns point"(the chain is c7-d6-e5). White often over presses, and you can win by defence alone. This opening is rock solid.
f5 is also in the air for black,perhaps going for some kind of a KID attack w/out the dark bishop, but, the best plan I have found is this:
  White will organize for f4, keep this in mind. I like to exchange the Knight g6 by playing Nf4!. This is the absolute key. White will always exchange as his only play is being blocked. So you recapture with the e-pawn. Once f4 is played, Whites backwards pawn at e4 is such a weakness, and black has an easy game just trying to win it, or tying white down to defending it while you persue an attack perhaps. Moves for black such as re8, f6!, Qe7 and Nd7 come to mind. The play is slower than some like, definatly not the dragon! but very fun for the positionally minded player. Plus there is not too much theory so basically *We* can help develop this opening  with our own ideas! exiting stuff, isint it?
Take it from here, Ill check the page dfaily like I always do, Analysis soon to come as long as there is intrest. Otherwise I am content to just keep winning all alone with this system!

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