I wouldn't abandon 1.e4 e5 completely. I think you are far enough along that if you wanted to add the Pirc as a second defense you can. It takes about a year of using it before you will be comfortable with it. The Pirc absolutely has not been refuted and is used every week by GMs. It is not used much at the 2700+ levels but works fine at the 2600 level. One thing you should understand is that it very different from the KID. The KID is a very aggressive counter attack where Black attacks the kingside with vigor. The Pirc is more like a slippery fish where Black seeks his counterplay on the queenside. If you know both the KID and Pirc, you should be ready for any irregular or flank openings White may try to play.
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For white, well when i decided that i hate the french and caro, i started to play the Bird. (1 f4!) Its quite postional, but may get sharp if you want to :)
Well but you can learn good systems against Caro, French and Sicilian, Kings Indians Attack works there,(It was played by Bobby Fischer! and is similar to KID)
Is there an opening that allows you to play the KID or KID(like) against 1.e4?
Is there an opening that allows you to play the KID or KID(like) against 1.e4?
I think that the Sicilian Accelerated Dragon plays a lot like the King's Indian without the white pawns clogging up the center as much as in the KID.
The Dragon Sicilian is something that I have heard before, exspecially when I first started to consider playing the English. I have two conserns with the Sicilian. The first is that their are so many variations that if I played 1.e4 c5, I could end up in any sort of game, aside from the pet variatin, Dragon in this case. The second is that the Dragon Sicilian is quite popular in top GM play which also means that it would require constant vigilance to continue playing lines that are not refuted or so on.
Well, you're not a master yet, so I recommend sticking 1. e4 e5 from both sides.
I admit that there is still a lot that I can learn from the 1.e4 e5 openings, however, I find that I get tired of playing the game of my opponent. I realize that any opening is going to have a lot of variations, it's just that if I intend to play the Italian or Spanish or Scotch, etc, and black wants plays the French, guess what, we play the French.
Is there an opening that allows you to play the KID or KID(like) against 1.e4?
In a word no. The KID is played when White's opening moves pretty much commit White to Queenside play, allowing Black to attack the kingside. When White plays 1.e4 he usually intends to attack the kingside. Since white is half a move ahead it would be a strategic mistake for Black to try to attack the kingside and he certainly doesn't have time to fianchetto his king bishop if he wants to attack the kingside. Black can either play a symmetrical defense and try to equalize or he can play an asymmetrical defense and seek counterplay on the queenside. If Black insists on attacking the kingside he could try some wild counter gambit like 1e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5. In the Sicilian, French, and Caro-Kann Black looks to the queenside for his counterplay.
I am working to build an opening repertoire. (I am aware that tactics and endgame and over all strategy is much more important than opening at my level but I still need to find and opening that I can get though to make it to the middle game without having already lost.)
As Black, I have started playing the KID against 1.d4 and generally have good results and have interesting games overall.
I used to play e5 against e4 but realized that I am playing into a lot of my opponents prep. I recently have been looking at the Pirc. It seems pretty simple to get started, though doing some basic forum reading has told me that it may not be "correct".
As White, I used to play the Italian game (loved it when I got to play the Evans Gambit) but got tired of playing everything else under the sun, (Sicilian, Caro-Kann, French, etc. ) so, I have been slowly learning the English.
I would appreciate your thoughts on these choices, and recommendations on how to proceed, I know so little of all of these that I am starting a square one.