Timeline for Countering the Horowitz Defense
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 12:53 | comment | added | Evargalo | BrianTowers : Absolutely. But this move order device is almost exclusively used by people who are not afraid of playing the Black side of a French defense... Most of them will play 1...e6 regardless of White's first move. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 12:42 | comment | added | Brian Towers♦ | @OlivierPucher Starting with e6 is a good way of getting a Nimzo or a safer Dutch. It is usually played as a move order device. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 12:08 | comment | added | Evargalo | I think most players using the 1...e6 move order are French aficionadoes, and few White players starting with 1.d4 will enjoy facing it. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 11:34 | history | answered | Brian Towers♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |