Nimzo Indian Defense
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
Black pins the c3 knight to fight for e4, often giving up the bishop pair to damage White's pawn structure. One of Black's most respected defenses.
As White: 62% score in 1920 games (1100 wins, 192 draws, 628 losses).
As Black: 55% score in 1572 games (790 wins, 156 draws, 626 losses).
Who plays it most
- IM Yoav Milikow: 76 games as White, scores 54%
- WGM kungmongmanh: 57 games as White, scores 61%
- GM Aleksei Sarana: 55 games as White, scores 71%
- GM Sergey Volkov: 53 games as White, scores 35%
- GM Michael Brown: 48 games as White, scores 63%
- GM Jayson Gonzales: 47 games as White, scores 44%
- GM Nick De Firmian: 45 games as White, scores 67%
- GM Benjamin Bok: 41 games as White, scores 72%
- GM Davorin Komljenovic: 40 games as White, scores 68%
- Javier Segovia: 39 games as Black, scores 50%
- GM Brandon Jacobson: 39 games as White, scores 69%
- GM Aleksey Sorokin: 36 games as White, scores 72%
- GM Matthias Bluebaum: 30 games as White, scores 73%
- GM Bogdan Daniel Deac: 28 games as White, scores 52%
- GM Mark Bluvshtein: 27 games as White, scores 72%
From the recent public Chess.com games of 436 players on the top players list, updated about once a week. Score = wins plus half the draws.