# Chess: Glee v Chessic Sense

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**Created:** [March 9, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-glee-v-chessic-sense/615264 "2012-03-09T14:07:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-glee-v-chessic-sense/615264/4 "2012-03-09T15:42:41Z")

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Glee Chessic Sense  
1.d4 Nf6  
2. c4 e6  
3. Nc3 Bb4  
4. a3

(if 4. … Bxc3+ 5. bxc3)

Thanks to Chessic Sense for conditionals (which speed the game up) and to Mosier for his helpful diagrams. 🙂

This opening for Black is the Nimzo-Indian defence (named after Grandmaster Nimzovich) and I am playing the Saemisch variation.  
White gets the two bishops and a pawn majority in the centre. However this comes with doubled pawns, giving an interesting, unbalanced\* game.  
I have played this a lot as Black, so it should be fun to try the White side of things.

\*unbalanced in rhe sense of ‘not likely to end in a draw’, rather than crazy!

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