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and it's easy to see why

thanks to a black draw against Vladimir Kramnik in a Nimzo-Indian with 4

Chapter 1 – Exercises Anna Muzychuk

but also covers White's theoretically dubious attempts

The Closed Games

Aronian-Variante - Ein modernes Repertoire gegen Spanisch SN_required false and it's easy to seeThe Armenian top grandmaster Levon Aronian has refreshed an old concept with new game ideas. The starting point of the Aronian Variation in the Spanish Game (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5) is the move 3 Nge7, which was named after Carlo Cozio, an Italian chess master from the 18th century. The few grandmasters who used 3 Nge7 in the past, however, usually had different plans for it than Aronian and other well known players in the 21st century: For