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Hello friends

In this blog I would like to talk about the new opening that I am learning and why I love it so much.  Its the mighty Kings Indian Attack (KIA).

KIA is very easy to study and implement.  It offers a lot of variety and good positional play to White.  It looks a bit passive for Whites in the beginning, but suddenly transforms into a devastating attack on the Black's King side.  

It generally goes like this 1.e4 e6  2.d3 d5  3.Nd2 Nf6  4.Nf3 Be7  5.g3 c5  6.Bg2 Nc6  7.0-0 

 

  White has aggressive play on the king side, whereas black tries to counter attack on the queen side.  It requires greatest caution from Black to defend himself and  counter attack.  

 

Please have a look my last game where I checkmated my opponent in just 19 moves who is 100 points above me.

 

Here is the link for the game:  https://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1576335759

As you see, White has not done anything great, just played the obvious moves which resulted in an easy win.  Quite often it pushes black into pressure right from the beginning and when in pressure even strong players make blunders.  All the youngsters out there, I wish you explore this opening and play it more frequently.

I strongly recommend the following opening books for beginners:

i) Nimzo Larsen Attack https://amzn.to/2CJLGbT
ii) The Fianchetto Solution  https://amzn.to/3g5qUSv
iii) The Kings Indian Attack: Move by Move  https://amzn.to/3g7bmhg
iv) Modern Defence:  Move by Move  https://amzn.to/2CQjTqv
v)  Play 1.b3:  Nimzo Larsen Attack: A friend for life  https://amzn.to/2CGeIJt