When in form, Nimzowitsch was very dangerous with the black pieces, scoring many fine wins over top players.

There are many entertaining anecdotes regarding Nimzowitsch — some less savory than others.

However, this was only part of the Hypermodern framework — which Nimzowitsch encapsulated in the seminal chess work called My System which was to greatly influence many future generations of chess players.

Kmoch also wrote an article about his nine years with Nimzowitsch:

Most were about chess, including books on the opening ( Winning Chess Openings ), the middlegame ( 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations ), and game collections ( Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters ), as well as biographies of Alexander Alekhine, José Raúl Capablanca, Paul Keres, Emanuel Lasker ( co-written with Reuben Fine ), Paul Morphy ( Andrew Soltis completed and published this book years after Reinfeld's death ), and Aron Nimzowitsch.

In The Elements (), Nimzowitsch writes about the basics of his " system ".

Aron Nimzowitsch ( or Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich, or Aaron Nimzovich ) (, ; born Aron Niemzowitsch ) ( 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

Nimzowitsch eventually moved to Copenhagen in 1922, which coincided with his rise to the world chess elite, where he lived for the rest of his life in one small rented room.

Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history.

Many chess openings and variations are named after Nimzowitsch, the most famous being the Nimzo-Indian Defence ( 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 ) and the less often played Nimzowitsch Defence ( 1. e4 Nc6 ).

Nimzowitsch had lengthy and somewhat bitter dogmatic conflicts with Tarrasch over whose ideas constituted ' proper ' chess.

* 1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player ( b. 1886 )

* 1886 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player ( d. 1935 )

He used his rations to buy Chess Praxis by Danish grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch, a book which Petrosian would later claim to have had the greatest influence on him as a chess player.

Ebralidze was a supporter of Nimzowitsch and Capablanca, and his scientific approach to chess discouraged wild tactics and dubious combinations.

This hypermodern opening was developed by Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch who introduced it to master-level chess in the early 20th century.

He finished fourth in the very strong St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, behind only World Champion Lasker and future World Champions José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, and ahead of Marshall, Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg.

Secrets of modern chess strategy: advances since Nimzowitsch.

This plan is named the Hanham Variation ( after the American chess master James Moore Hanham ) and was favoured by Aron Nimzowitsch.

The Nimzowitsch Defence is a somewhat unusual chess opening characterised by the moves:

Larsen's Opening ( also called the Nimzowitsch – Larsen Attack, Nimzo – Larsen Attack, Queen's Fianchetto Opening, Owen's Opening or the Greek Attack ) is a chess opening starting with the move:

My System () is a book on chess theory written by Aron Nimzowitsch.

* Milan Vidmar vs Aron Nimzowitsch, New York 1927, Bogo-Indian Defence ( E11 ), 0 – 1 A crafty blending of strategy and tactics.

Nimzowitsch biographer GM Raymond Keene and others have referred to 1. f4 followed by 2. b3 as the Nimzowitsch – Larsen Attack.

For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!

Nimzowitsch was annoyed by his opponents ' smoking.

This consisted of a mock game against the fictional player " Systemsson ", supposedly played and annotated by Nimzowitsch himself.

Strongly influenced by Aron Nimzowitsch and Richard Réti, he accordingly preferred hypermodern openings such as the Modern Defence, Nimzo-Indian Defence and King's Indian Defence.

Favoured by Nimzowitsch, 4 ... b6 is a move in accordance with the spirit of the Nimzo-Indian: Black fianchettoes his light-squared bishop to increase his control over e4.

?, as advocated by Aron Nimzowitsch.

White's strongest reply is to chase the knight by 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nc3 and now ( a ) 4 ... Nxc3 5. dxc3, when 5 ... b6 ?, as Nimzowitsch played and recommended, loses to 6. e6!

He was a great target of the hypermodern school, led by Richard Réti, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Savielly Tartakower, all of whom criticized his ideas as dogmatic.

Nimzowitsch for example delighted in showing how games could be won through indirect control of the center, challenging some of Tarrasch's dogmatic views that the center had to be occupied by pawns.

* 1. d4 d5 2. e4 Nc6 ( the Nimzowitsch Defence ) 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. d5 may be followed by 5. f3 or 5. f4.

After 2. d4, there are two distinctive main lines: 2 ... e5, favored by British grandmaster Tony Miles, and 2 ... d5, introduced and often played by the influential Latvian-Danish player and writer Aron Nimzowitsch ( 1886 – 1935 ).

Larsen was inspired by the example of the great Latvian-Danish player and theoretician Aron Nimzowitsch ( 1886 – 1935 ), who often played 1. Nf3 followed by 2. b3, which is sometimes called the Nimzowitsch – Larsen Attack.

The move has been described by Edmar Mednis as a " perfect and flexible opening " and by others such as Aron Nimzowitsch as “ certainly the most solid move, whereas moves such as 1. e4 and 1. d4 are both ‘ committal ’ and ‘ compromising '.

His highest rank was number six in the world, albeit with a slightly lower rating, in May 1933, behind only Alekhine, Kashdan, Flohr, Capablanca, and Euwe, and ahead of such giants as Aron Nimzowitsch and Akiba Rubinstein.

The same sacrificial pattern was echoed in a number of later games, notably Nimzowitsch – Tarrasch, St Petersburg 1914 ; Miles – Browne, Lucerne 1982 ; and Polgar – Karpov, Seventh Essent 2003.

An acolyte of Siegbert Tarrasch, his sound, strategic play enabled him to defeat a number of the world's top players, including David Bronstein, Aron Nimzowitsch and Milan Vidmar.