08 Sep 07
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Originally posted by badivan1Raymond Keene and Byron Jacobs wrote a whole book on 1...Nc6 called "A Complete Defence for Black", and in the first chapter they go over a number of games with the line you're interested in. Here's an excerpt:
Anyone willing to post some lines after 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5? I don't care if it's unsound and whatnot...
"Spielmann-Nimzowitsch, Stockholm 1920.
1 e4 Nc6
2 d4 d5!?
The pure, Nimzowitschian interpretation of this defense which normally leads to intricate pawn chain play. When this defense is employed in contemporary chess 2...e5 tends to be preferred and it is the line we recommend too, on account of 2...d5 3 Nc3!. For our analysis of 2...e5 see chapter two.
3 e5
One might have expected the more fluid 3 Nc3!? from Spielmann which is, in fact, the best move.
3 ... Bf5
An even more provocative method of handling this provocative defence is 3...f6!?."
I'm not going to reproduce the entire analysis, but this gives you a taste. There are some other games in the book with this line:
"Wendel-Nimzowitsch, Stockholm 1921
1 e4 Nc6
2 d4 d5
3 Nc3
One of the sharpest methods of combating Nimzowitsch's special defence. With this move White offers a pawn sacrifice in order to destroy Black's strong point on d5. In this case Nimzowitsch accepts the challenge.
3 ... dxe4
The alternative is the stolid refusal to give ground 3...e6. Later in the 1920s (as in the Brinckmann game we have just seen) Nimzowitsch gained many victories with this move, one other of which is sufficiently amusing to merit reproduction here: Mieses-Nimzowitsch, Kissingen 1928: 3...e6 [score omitted, but it's in the book if you want it]."
Other games with this line that the book analyses are Milner-Barry - Mieses, Margate 1935, and, in the "Practising What We Preach" section: Charnley-Keene, London 1964; Hindley-Keene, Correspondence 1963; Sandiford-Keene, Dulwich 1961; and finally, Sugden-Keene, Dulwich 1961.
This is a great book, and I highly recommend it. It is my bible for 1...Nc6, which is what I like to play myself. There's a new book on 1...Nc6 by Christoph Wisnewski, which seems to be pretty good, but I haven't read it yet. It probably also has something to say about the line you're interested in. Good luck.