Different ways to reach Kings Indian Attack.

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Udai444

I recently found out that i really enjoy playing this opening, and is useful to get players away from the  main line.. 

What i want to know are the different ways to reach this position.

The ones i know are:

1. French defence: e4 e6 d6 d5 nbd2

2. Sicilian : e4 c5 nf3 e6 d3 d5 

 

Any other ways to reach it?

Yigor

U can play KIA vs virtually everything. blitz.pnggrin.png Generally speaking, Nf3 + g3 is already KIA. wink.png

Drugs_Bunny

Yeah the KIA is its own opening. Some people set out to play it from the start with 1.Nf3. I use it as part of my e4 repertoire. I play it against the French and 2...e6 Sicilians. It's also used against the caro kann but I don't like it against that as much.

kindaspongey
Yigor wrote:

... Generally speaking, Nf3 + g3 is already KIA.

Seirawan suggested this sort of thing for White in his 1999 book, Winning Chess Openings,
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
and he used the overall name, Barcza Opening, adding that the King's Indian Attack was one possible direction for the subsequent moves.