Fire on the board: playing the Nf3,e3,b3 system

 The Nf3,e3,b3 system is a great weapon in blitz. White puts one bishop on d3, another one on b2, and attacks the kingside.

White is literally setting the board on fire, and can bring the whole point quickly.

and here are the arrows to display where your pieces go.

and here is how Nakamura used this system to win a blitz game against Alireza Firoujza in 21 moves.

The entire game is annotated with variations and comments

 

Colle-Zukertort ideas

Colle Zukertort is the system where white decides to fianchetto his dark square bishop b3,Bb2, plays e3,d4 as well as Bd3,Nbd2 and Nf3. Here is what white starts the game with

 

and in a real life game, here's the position for white where f2-f4 is also played.

Remember to play actively with White, setting the board on fire. Use the a1-h8 and b1-h7 diagonals with your bishops. Bring your knights to the kingside.

Like this :

Now lets see full games with this system with the white pieces.

here's another one

and one more example without Qc2/f5 inserted

and a final one with early Rc1 and c4-c5

Colle Zukertort Yusupov Style Part II: theory against g6,Bg7

and simply your task is to put fire on the board. play the attack from the very beginning don't hold back.

Again, we are exploring the key ideas of this system for White in this second post. Here we will review what to do when Black plays a King's Indian or Fianchetto g6,Bg7. Once again, Nakamura plays this line quite often in blitz and rapid games.

1. Nf3 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. e3 g6 4. b3 Bg7 5. Bb2 O-O 6. Be2  brings the following position

Position After 6Be2

Here White plays more a positional pressure type of game, no direct attack against Black's king.
Notice that the Bishop in c8 has no good squares so typically Black opts for a double fianchetto.
Let's follow a recent game from Hikaru.

Nakamura-Caruana - Magnus Invitational 2020 Game 4.

6... Nbd7 7. O-O b6 8. c4 Bb7 9. Qc2 

Position after 9Qc2

White controls the center and now Caruana tries to prepare e6-e5 by playing e7-e6 and Qe7. but White has an easier play with more space by developing Nb1 to c3 and bringing the rooks in files c and d.

9..e6 10. Nc3 Qe7 11. e4 e5 12. dxe5 dxe5 13.Nd5

Position after 13 Nd5.
Here Black had to take on d5 and White recaptures with c-pawn. Hikaru only needed to draw this game 4 as he was in the lead and his play was influenced by the fact.

The full game is available here with my notes and analysis.


Now for other key ideas you should look at 6..c5 as a major alternative for Black.
And also in the game above , Black can try to get e7-e5 faster without going for the b6,Bb7 second fianchetto. This is a little more active for Black and here how you should meet this plan

7... Re8 8. c4 e5 9.dxe5 Ng4 10. Qc2

Position after 10.Qc2.
Again White puts his queen on c2, defending Bb2 and there's always e3-e4 should Black try Bf5. This allows for rooks to come into play while Black has to figure out where to put her queen.

 10..Ngxe5 11. Nxe5 Nxe5 12. Nc3 += followed by rook activation.

These lines give a positional plus but for a player going for the King's Indian as Black, this may require patience and careful play to equalize. The ideas are fairly straighforward for White which I think it is the easier side to play.


I will put here the main game Nakamura-Caruana until the 26th move if you don't have a chessboard to replay game.

Colle-Zukertort Yusupov style d4,b3,Bb2 and Ne5

Opening prep

Showing a few lines about the Yusupov pet line d4,b3,Bb2 set-up

The system looks like this for White

The idea is to develop along these lines for white and pretty much go for the attack.
Good repertoire for blitz/rapid or even bullet.

and this is what it leads to when played right

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Lets see 4 critical positions

POSITION 1

POSITION 2

POSITION 3

Position 4:

and now the 4 games in full