1.e4
c5
2.Nf3
Nf6
3.e5
Nd5
4.d4
I think this will be quite a common response among club players. White simply opens the centre in the style of a normal Sicilian. Play transposes into a position resembling the 2 c3 line,but not quite.
4...cxd4
5.Qxd4
e6
6.Bc4
Nc6
7.Qe4
f5
8.Qe2
Nde7!
This is a very good move which can be played in the analogous variation with 2 c3. Quite nakedly Black targets the e pawn. The blocked centre means that White will take quite some time to build up any pressure on the d file so this plan is quite viable.
9.g3
Ng6
10.Bd2
Qc7
11.Bc3
Not an ideal square for the Bishop. Black expands further.
11...a6
12.h4
More or less forced.
12...b5
13.h5
What else?
13...Ngxe5
It looks to me as though Belozerov had this all worked out at home . For the rest of us it is an instructive little combination serving to demonstrate the efficiency of the earlier Knight manouevre.
14.Nxe5
Nxe5
15.Bxe6!
White plays well,which makes this game valuable.
15...dxe6
Here Black misses a shot I think! [ 15...Qc6!
16.Bd5!
Two Zwizchenzugs in a row but at the end of the affair it will be Black on top: ( 16.Bxf5
Qxh1+
17.Kd2
Qd5+
18.Kc1
Bb7
( 18...d6
19.Be4
) 19.Qxe5+
Qxe5
20.Bxe5
Kf7=/+
) 16...Qxd5
17.Qxe5+
Qxe5+
18.Bxe5
Bb7
19.0-0
Rc8=/+
]
16.Bxe5
Bd6
17.Bxd6
Qxd6
18.Nc3?!
So natural and so inaccurate. [ It might have been worth flicking in 18.h6!?
just to upset the Black King . It's not so easy for Black to get his Bishop and Queen lined up on the diagonal: 18...g6
19.0-0!
Bb7
20.Re1
Kf7
21.Nd2
]
18...b4!
Now Black is getting on top. In order to prevent some horrible accident on the long diagonal White is forced into unfavourable tactics.
19.Rd1
[ 19.Nd1
Bb7
20.Rh4
0-0
21.c3
bxc3
22.Nxc3
Rad8-/+
was relatively best.]
19...Qc6!-+
20.Nd5
Kf7
21.Rd4
exd5
If there is a piece there,why not take it?
22.Kd1
Re8
23.Qd2
a5
24.h6
g6
25.Rhh4
Re4
26.Rhxe4
dxe4
27.Rd6
Qc5
28.Rd8
Ra7
29.Kc1
Rc7
30.Rh8
Ke6
31.b3
Qc3
Easy technique at the end.
A small article like this one can only whet the appetite but I would say ' why not give the Nimzo-Sicilian a try' ?. Play seems to be messy,unchartered and you can go for the win.
The following book is out of print but it's the best work on the subject I know if you can get your hands on it :
' Wie spielt man das Nimzowitsch System in der Szilianischen Verteidigung ?
by V.Hort and J.Pribyl
Walter Rau Verlag Dusseldorf 1986
Quite a mouthful. 0-1