King's Indian Defence, A Repertoire

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

Reverse KID is called the KIA. There are at least three KID structures as well. One is the standard e5-d6 pawn chain. Another is the e5-d6-c5 pawn chain. And the last one is if black releases the tension in the center, resulting in a d6-c6 pawn structure, and the d6 pawn is likely to be weak.

There can still be more. Say for example as in English opening or sicilian dragon and so on. Slight or minor differences can be there, but the list may be quite exhaustive.

There will be Classical variation, Mar Del Plata, Bayonet attack, Four Pawns Attack, Samisch, Exchange variation, Averbakh variation,etc and so on. This will be a series of 25 articles and I wish to make it so extensive that everyone should be able open the particular variation whenever needed.

It is one of the variations in the KID classical variation, Benko attack. Another is exchange variation. Exchange variation will be having a separate chapter along with model games. Benko traditional attack will be dealt as a sideline in the main variation. And no black's attack does not get cold. We will see during the particular chapter.