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# Starting Out: The Nimzo-Indian (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Got page numbers?
  

*by R***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2022*

Only 3 stars because I find it helpful to have page numbers when I want to go to a specific chapter, and this book has no page numbers. I have seen two copies, neither was numbered.

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    Sufficient understanding
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2010*

I own many books from the ''Starting Out'' serie and they fit my needs. Being a class B player, I need a general and practical understanding of the different opening set ups I use. This serie is well written and the strategical and tactical concepts are very helpful. I use it as the basic of my futur work if I ever get strong enough to need more detailed informations.

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    A solid intro book, but not comprehensive or unique.
  

*by W***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2005*

The Nimzo-Indian can be played in conservative solid fashion or in a more aggressive, unbalancing manner in which black plays for the win early in the middlegame. This book is designed to introduce the basic ideas, themes, and philosophy of the Nimzo.  It is not loaded with the latest theory nor will it help titled players learn something they didn't already know. However, this book really is a nice way to 'start out' in one of the best defenses against 1.d4 and is obviously critical for white players who play 1.d4/ 2.c4/ 3.Nc3. Chris Ward has a lifetime's experience with this opening and it shows. He is also a fairly entertaining writer, which is more than more chess authors can say for themselves.Although, the book doesn't run 'deep' (nor does it claim to) it does present all the pertinent variations within the Nimzo so that you can choose which lines you want to play or research further.This book will not be enough for strong club players to just hit the ground running.  You will still (of course) need to check open resources like ECO, NCO, or the TWIC for modern theory of whichever lines strike your fancy.  If you are already 1800+, then look elsewhere for you Nimzo knowledge. This book is really meant for lower rated players.As a side note, the Sherbakov-Jakovenko game is not tactically flawed as a previous reviewer mentioned.  If he had tried to play the lines with Fritz analysizing for more than a minute he would find that Grandmasters might know a bit more than some people give them credit for. The ideas involving a quick b4 in that game look winning for white at first but then the computer (and strong GM's like Onischuk and Gurevich)realize black gets the material back since the knight on a8 isn't going anywhere. Also, since black ends up with 2 queenside connected passers in the coming endgame.  More than compensating and in fact, forcing play to take a perpetual to avoid getting burned.  A very playable line for black.

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