I just played this blitz and my question is does it have a name? Is there any theory on it?

I ended up having using a lot of time early then slowly got worse after I had to speed up. I lost.

I believe this is the mexican defense (or the knights tango) Silman has some articles on it and there are a few books on it(one just called tango I believe)

1.e4 Nc6 is called 'Nimzo's other defence' a really naff name.

I advocated calling it the Black Diamond Bay Openening because
I was listening to that track whilst noting up the game in the blog.

http://www.redhotpawn.com/blog/blogread.php?blogpostid=35

(I don't think it will catch on but anything is better than 'Nimzo's Other Defence.'😉

The Knights Tango comes about from . d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6

This is called the Nimzowitsch or Nimzovich defense but I don`t know how to spell it.

Nimzowitsch Defence ECO B00

B00 sounds like a very scary opening.

A good article on here with some theory.

http://www.soszynski.btinternet.co.uk/sccc/nimzo.html

i was tempted to say Chigorin.

what is the difference between the two?

tchigorin : d4 d5 c4 Nc6
2 knights tango : d4 Nf6 c4 Nc6
nimzowitch : e4 Nc6

Originally posted by shorbock
tchigorin : d4 d5 c4 Nc6
2 knights tango : d4 Nf6 c4 Nc6
nimzowitch : e4 Nc6

Thanks. 🙂

First successful attempt with it so far.

another one down with it. Kind of a sloppy game. Moved at blitz speed but it was a 1 day N/A CC game. The end of the game is somewhat instructive.