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So in this forum topic we will discuss the Bird's Opening. I forgot about it and haven't been able to get around to this til today. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we will be discussing this for about a week or so.

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Hello friends, Now the time has come to see how the Bayonet attack is applied on the board and still how can the black can reply with the Mar Del Plata attack. https://www.chess.com/blog/sanpatkan/kings-indian-defense-repertoire-2-mar-del-plata-vs-bayonet-attack-model-game It is competition of wits. Hope you enjoy this. Regards, Dr Sanjay

Hello frieds, The theory needs practical example. Here is one in the Bayonet attack, https://www.chess.com/blog/sanpatkan/kings-indian-defense-repertoire-2-whites-perspective-bayonet-attack-model-game Kramanik vs Kasparov both great players are trying themselves in this game. Hope you enjoy it. Regards, Dr Sanjay

Hello Friends, One sided learning is always harmful. KID is opening for black, true. But then we should also know what white can spring upon us. Also many times we need to face KID and we should know how to tackle KID. So let us see one of the weapons white has against KID. the Bayonet attack. https://www.chess.com/blog/sanpatkan/kings-indian-defense-repertoire-2-whites-perspective-bayonet-attack We now are going deeper and deeper in KID. And yet there will be another 25 articles in KID. Stay tuned. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Regards, Dr Sanjay.

Hi friends, A great news to you all. We have won a vote chess game with brilliant tactics and in only 19 moves. You can see the game and admire our players for their great game.

Mar Del Plata, This name puts terror in the heart of white player who is playing against a KID. And it a very basic weapon in the hands of black. No study of KID can be completed without knowing Mar Del Plata. Let us try to know it intimately. https://www.chess.com/blog/sanpatkan/kings-indian-defense-repertoire-1-classical-variation-mar-del-plata-model-game-2 Hope you will be helped to know the Mar Del Plata properly. If you have any doubts or has some improvisations to suggest, please let me know. Every comment and criticism are welcome. Thanks, Dr Sanjay

Once we know the thematic of the opening we need to see how it is practically applied. Reading only theory is like learning swimming from books without going in water. So let us taste the waters to see how much we can understand the various strategies applied in classical variation of KID. Here is the model game which will teach us these important ideas. https://www.chess.com/blog/sanpatkan/kings-indian-defense-repertoire-1-classical-variation2-model-game-1-final Thanks, Dr Sanjay

Hi friends, We have come to the stage where we need to see the practical approach of all the theory we have seen about the classical variation of KID. A very interesting game is discussed in this post and we will see how the ideas we discussed are applied here. https://www.chess.com/blog/sanpatkan/kings-indian-defense-repertoire-1-classical-variation-2-model-games-1 Hope you enjoy it. Comments and suggestions are valued inputs. Thanks, Dr Sanjay

King's Indian defense is a versatile weapon in the hands of a skilled player playing against white. The game is full of dynamic power play of strategies, themes and tactics on both sides. It is very popular at grand master levels and many world champions have tried it. We are starting to enter the territory of KID with Classical variation. https://www.chess.com/blog/sanpatkan/kings-indian-defense-repertoire-1-classical-variation I hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to comment and suggest for improvements. Regards, Dr Sanjay

Hi Opening Club, Since we have a Vote Chess game featuring the Sicilian Dragon, I thought it would be a good idea for us to discuss the major ideas behind it and the plans for each side. As I rarely play either side of this opening, I am no expert and you should take the advice of more experienced players more highly. The Sicilian Dragon is an opening characterized by the moves Black plans to develop the dark-squared bishop to g7 in order to put pressure on the long diagonal, which has been exposed somewhat due to the pawn trade on d4. In the future, this bishop combined with a rook or queen on the half-open c-file could put a lot of pressure on c3 and be important in an attack if white chooses to castle queenside. If white wants to attack black's king in this variation, a common plan is to support the d4-knight with Be3 and the e4-pawn with f3, then play Qd2 preparing Bh6 to trade off the dark-squared bishop and rip open the h-file with h4 and h5. If you have something to share about this opening please do so in the comments, and don't forget to join the vote chess game here: https://www.chess.com/votechess/game/194356

Hi, Friends, This is opening club, the club devoted to study of chess openings in detail. So I am starting with King's Indian Defense. Let us start from 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. Dr. Sanjay

The Benko Gambit is a common variation of the Benoni Defense where Black sacrifices material to obtain strong pressure and a slight lead in development. It starts with the moves If white captures on b5, Black will play 4...a6 and after 5.bxa6 Bxa6 we reach the initial position of the Benko Gambit Accepted. As you can see, Black has two open files on the Queenside that will allow for significant pressure. Black also has two pieces developed to White's none, and the a8 rook isn't in a terrible spot on its starting square. There are also ways for White to decline the Gambit, such as e4 and Qc2, but I know nothing about those moves. Feel free to share your thoughts on the Benko Gambit and games with it, and also tell me how wrong everything I wrote was. I have no actual experience with this opening so I am curious to learn as well.

Since we are The Opening Club, I figured it would be a good idea to talk about our favorite openings. Please share your favorite openings here and why you like them, then we can discuss. I will start: When I play White, I like to play the Ruy Lopez Opening and the Queen's Gambit because they can be both aggressive or positional depending on how they are played. For Black I like the Queen's Gambit Declined against 1.d4 because it is solid and positional. I don't have a favorite response to 1.e4 so I have been trying out many different responses with varying degrees of success. Again, please share your favorite openings and feel free to share your least favorite openings as well!

There are two kinds of sacrifices; correct ones and mine. – Mikhail Tal Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine. – Mikhail Tal Even after losing four games in a row to him I still consider his play unsound. He is always on the lookout for some spectacular sacrifice, that one shot, that dramatic breakthrough to give him the win. – Bobby Fischer (on Tal) Bobby Fischer was incredibly difficult to beat; Unless you were Tal. Tal's plan was not much of a plan, being to confuse his opponents. (I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. – Mikhail Tal) Sacrifices, crazy moves, stunning checkmates, and wins out of the blue: That is what made him such a phenomenon. His moves were seemingly random and without a good reason, but while you were still looking at the simplest of analysis, he was deep in a ridiculously complex and unsound plan. He won by having no good strategy, and he rarely drew games until later in his life. (It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times! – Mikhail Tal These squares were his unsound bases.) A lot of his moves would be bad against the computer, but against humans, because we have brains and not AI, they worked! Mikhail Tal was the world champion for one year, and he seemed happy to leave the title behind. (When I lost the title to Botvinnik, chess could be played quietly again! – Mikhail Tal) In short, Tal was an absolutely insane genius, who I, for one, cannot help but admire.

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The Ruy Lopez Opening, also known as the Spanish Game, is one of my favorite chess openings. It is a popular opening at all levels. The Ruy Lopez starts with the moves 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5. The bishop move puts immediate pressure on Black's center by threatening the knight on c6. White often maintains long term pressure on Black with this opening, is ready to castle immediately. White usually plays c3 and d4 to strike in the center. This opening has been played for many hundreds of years and so there is a lot of theory. There are many popular responses for Black, and I will list a few here: The Morphy Defense, 3...a6 The Morphy Defense is one of the most common responses by the Black player. It threatens the bishop on b5 and forces white to make a decision about what to do with the bishop. White usually moves 4.Ba4 here, maintaining the pressure on the knight while not giving Black the advantage of the two bishops. This usually continues with 4... Nf6 5.0-0, after which Black can play 5...Nxe4, the open game, where Black plays for counterplay, or 5...Be7, the closed line, where Black seeks to maintain the pawn on e5. The diagram below gives a common continuation for the closed line. White can also play the exchange variation, 4.Bxc6. White releases the tension in the center and doubles Black's pawns, but Black gets the advantage of the two bishops. This variation generally (but not always) leads to a simpler game. After Black plays 4... dxc6, White should not play 5. Nxe5, after which 5...Qd4 wins the pawn back, but simply castling is best. See the diagram for an explanation. The Berlin Defense, 3...Nf6 The Berlin Defense is a very solid response to the Ruy Lopez. I don't know too much about it, so feel free to tell me things I missed. The move leaves the White bishop on b5 where it can be attacked later. It often leads to a queenless middlegame and Hikaru seems to like it, so it must be good. The Classical Defense, 3...Bc5 The Classical Defense is another good response to the Ruy Lopez. Black develops his dark-squared Bishop to c5, putting pressure on f2 and temporarily restraining d4. White usually responds with 4.c3 or 4.0-0, and the game will open up quickly, though white could also try the fork trick 4.Nxe5 Nxe5 5.d4. Black will develop his knight to f6 later and prepare to castle. This is a good response for beginners as Black develops quickly and gets good piece activity. 3…d6, the Old Steinitz Defense. The Old Steinitz Defense uses the d-pawn to support the e-pawn and allows the light-squared bishop to enter the game, at the cost of a slightly cramped game. Black will usually break the pin with a later ...Bd7 or possibly give a pin with ...Bg4. This can be more passive so I recommend the Classical Defense or the Berlin Defense for people who want a more open position. 3...f5!?, The Jaenisch Gambit The Jaenisch Gambit is an aggressive gambit line to attack the Ruy Lopez, trying to undermine white's center from the side. It opens the f-file for a Black rook and often leads to very complicated play. Often, White has an extra pawn or two while black has the initiative. Black's king can become exposed however. There are a few other moves that Black might try, such as Nge7, Qf6, g6, or Bb4, but in general playing c3 and d4 to open up the game and control the center is something you should do, and castling quickly is always a good idea too. If I missed something, please tell me, and of course, feel free to add your own ideas as well. You can also share games you have played with either side of the Ruy Lopez; please annotate them if you do. I will probably share a few of my games as well.

This opening will be our first discussion subject, if you don't know anything about it, here is the occasion to learn, pour in your knowledge and ask questions! Here is a little material for you: https://www.chess.com/lessons/nakamuras-kings-indian-defense https://www.chess.com/lessons/learn-the-kings-indian-defense Thanks in advance for participating I might use your ideas for a blog, if so, you'll get a shout out at the end of the blog and if youown a blog, I'll mention it