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jrcolonial and I together came up with an idea in the King's Indian.
The Flying Ninja Attack:
We haven't gone very far with the concrete analysis, but just looking at the position after the accepted variation (gxf4 exf4), it seems that black has significant compensation:
-black has an active dark-squared bishop on the long diagonal, further helping to tangle up white's queenside and ready to go Be5 or Bd4(+) in many variations. Be5 is generally used to attack h2 and to block the e-file, trying to fight against white's superior center control
-black has a far advanced pawn storm on the kingside, while white may have to worry about his king before being able to get any queenside play
-black has a powerful knight on g6 that can go to h4, e5, or maybe even f4 (again!) later on
-black's queen is ready to come into h4 creating threats of g5-g4-g3 and Bd4
-black's light-squared bishop has a nice diagonal and may be able to exploit the weak light squares around white's king
-black may have ideas of playing Rf8-f6-h6 to attack white's king; this idea is especially strong if white tries to play Qh5 to defend his king
-black's queen rook may not be active, but at least it has an open file in this variation and does not even have to worry about being taken by Nb5-c7-a8, which what usually happens in the King's Indian. Again, because white needs to defend first and black has more active pieces
-black's king is safer than white's - it sits behind a wall of pawns and pieces
All this sounds good, but of course it needs at least some concrete variations to back it up. The position is pretty unclear, but I think black should have about enough for the piece.