FreeRepublic I agree. What moves led to the diagramed 
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. Ne2 b6 6. a3 Ba5 7. Rb1 Na6 8. Ng3 Bb7 
9. f3 O-O 10. Be2 d5 11. O-O dxc4 12. Bxc4 *

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 08/08/24 at 01:51:27:


Thanks. Following the link and scrolling down, one can download the enclosure of 58 games found in Dearing's book.

cathexis wrote on 08/07/24 at 12:46:37:


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I was unclear. I was referring to AOC's pgn file of the games contained in Dearing's book Play the Nimzo-Indian. Maybe AOC can provide a link to his PGN file.

As for BookUp, the $8 app is for tablets and has very limited capability.

Before going on to PC and Macintosh, I want clarify something. BookUp and Chess Opening Wizard are the same thing, at least in my opinion. The initial product was called BookUp. Later, it was given the name Chess Opening Wizard. Some links use the old name. I just think of them as synonyms.

There are two versions of Chess Opening Wizard:  Express and Professional. The express version costs $97. The Professional version costs $197.

https://www.bookup.com/catalog/comparison-chart/

This is where you can find it:

https://www.bookup.com/home/chess-openings-wizard-2016-program-status/

The Pro version is $297 US. There is a link on the above page to a comparison chart. I do not own it or have knowledge about it.

Hope this helps,
Cathexis

Well first up you get messes, and ones that stay complex for many moves. So it's absolutely no issue playing it at 1600-2000 level!

I actually checked this reasonably recently with SF NNE and it's actually reasonably positive about it all. Huge, complex, messes with a survivable white edge. 

Black does need to play some good moves but you'll get good winning chances of your own.

I haven't got Dearing anymore to check quite what he had, from what I remember a few lines won't quite hold up.

One critical position below - via 7 Rb1 and 8 Ng3. Black can seemingly try 10.. cd, Bxc3+ and Nc7/Ba6 or Qc7 instead earlier. That's a tiny bit anti thematic I suppose.



iirc, Dearing was keen on h5 ideas somewhere? SF doesn't like them much and if it doesn't like h5 it can't be a very good move!

It prefers to go 12.. b5!??! instead, basically just going a pawn down for weaknesses and activity. A little bit much to truly recommend.

12.. Qe7 seems to be best, which leads to wild things in a huge range of directions. 

13 b4 seems like it might just win, but doesn't - 13.. cb 14 Na2 Rfd8 (vs Ba3 skewers) 15 Bxa6 BxB 16 ab and then Bc4 is apparently a refinement on Bxf1.

13 Bd3 cd 14 cd b5!? actually works quite well(!).

13 e4 Rfd8 etc is a dangerous sacrifice of d4, but OK, black active too.

13 Nce4 Nd5 14 Qe2 Nac7 15 Bd3 a6 16 dc bc 17 Bd2 Bb6 18 Rbc1 Nb5 19 Kh1 and then SF thinks f5,f4 works fairly well.

Good question.

I went to Chess Assistant and did a query for 2019-2023. =36 +64(W) -50(B wins). My rule of thumb is that White typically scores 50% more wins than Black. With Black winning 50 games, I would expect White to win 75 games. With only 64 wins for White, Black is doing well.

How does it fair among the elites? Restricting games to above 2400 rating:  =6 +12 -3.