King's Indian Defence, A Repertoire: 1/1 Beginning.

Let us recapture the basic structure of the King's Indian set up.

Here it is

But is this structure exclusive to pure King's Indian Defense(KID)?

No sirs! 

The very great advantage of studying KID is that this basic structure and then automatically the positional tactics and strategies are generally applicable to the openings where these structures are recurring. And while studying KID we will be getting ourselves with these many openings.

Let us enlist at least some of these main openings.

Pirc Defense

Benoni and variants.

 London system where black respond by playing g6

Grunfeld Defense.

And combination of various openings or transposing to this structure from a routine opening where generally it is not played.

Reverse King's Indian Defense

What is good for black, should be good for white also! And that too with additional one tempo!

So even though you are playing black, you can suddenly face with the King's Indian Attack system.

Most of the times the variations and themes are quite different than KID. we still may find common themes and strategies in both these. Again King's Indian Attack system can be utilized in many openings. You may face this type of system in Reti opening, french defense, catalan, Nimzo larsan attack, etc. So it is pertinent that we also should have some knowledge about facing these openings as Reverse King's Indian.

So with this preamble we will start the KID basic moves and list of main variations in the next part. Also we will start discussion on one of the main  variations. Right from basic moves for that variations with opening traps if any, themes and strategies also will be covered.

In this way we will cover most commonly played variations of KID.

Every suggestion is welcome.   

Thanks,

Dr Sanjay