7. dxe5, maybe? :D
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7. dxe5, maybe? :D
Isnt that drawish? I dont mind equal position but there is difference bewteen drawish position and equal position. We dont want draw with white pieces!
The line advocated by Yusupov in his training books (Nc3/Nf3/Bg5) is simple to master, and certainly not harmless.
The Classical exchange 7.dxe5 is far from harmless, too.
https://www.chess.com/news/li-chao-convincing-winner-neckar-open-8157
So, you just have to play it as well as Li Chao does, to pick a lot of points. Good luck with that!
wow i dont understand anything about Li Chaos play, it looks like a computer. I dont know why I play chess, i really should just give it up and play something else.
7.dxe5 has been used by Li Chao lately to win some wonderful games.
I would say that he proved that it's far from drawish but it's also far from being easy to handle(but what is?).
I am glad you asked! Here is the total noob variation for playing against the KID, we play Bf4 and take care to preserve our dark squared bishop. What do you think?
From the other side of the coin, 1.d4 club player wanting a nice safe playable position, not learning too much theory, is the typical opponent for me in OTB UK chess. A few years back, when about to play at the Major Open after not being active OTB for sometime, I decided on the a6 Slav. Then white got a nice playble position, and so did black . My opponents also found the a6 move a little provocative, because they felt entitled to an advantage against it, but weren't prepared to do the work to try and get it. The main disadvantage was although it was a doddle to get an equal position, against lower rated players it was a little drawish.
Later started to learn the KingsIndian. The main aim is not to give opponent simple, easy to play positions, and keep the game as messy and complicated as possible. It works quite well for me againt lower rated opponents.
There are only 2 openings that I have played consistently for more than 4 decades , the KID and the Ruy ( Spanish ) . I still enjoy them both and in my most recent OTB tourney had 2 blacks that were both KID and I won both .
Later started to learn the KingsIndian. The main aim is not to give opponent simple, easy to play positions, and keep the game as messy and complicated as possible. It works quite well for me againt lower rated opponents.
I somehow get the impression that what we play is not as important as the kind of positions we are trying to reach, rational v messy, open/closed or semi open, rich middle game v quick transition to end game, etc the thing is trying to find out which of these suit our temperament.
Just out on interest I note that Kamsky has this very day played the London style setup against the KID in Russian premier leauge against Sanan Sjugirov
wow i am loving it Jengaias, as primarily a 1.e4 player I recognise this as a line that you can play against the Pirc, I think Karpov used to play it. The great thing about it, at least to me mind, is to limit blacks replies for we give him the opprtunity to play ...d5 and go into a Grunfeld or allow us to play e4, will need to take time to digest these games. Thanks so much.
Don't think it will be any great suprise, that none of these lines will discourage a KingsIndian player much. For example after 1.d4 Nf6 2Nf3 g6 3Nd2 d5 typically react to moves like b4 with a5, which I think works out fine for black here. Carlsen and others, find ways to play non-theoretical moves in practically any white opening. To get good results just need to play the rest of the game as well as Carlsen.
It would be interesting to know what robbie plays as black against 1.d4, and the club player trying to get an easy play position. Funny enough he probably as more practical experience from the black side.
One thing I'd like to know is, why in opening books you find 3.cxd5 immediately after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 in Exchange Slav, but in QGR 3.Nc3 Nf6 always comes before?
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.cxd5 is not exactly a challenging move order. Black could (and should) play 3....exd5 4.Nc3 c6, when he is ready to play ...Bf5, while any Bc1-f4 can be simply answered by ...Bd6, when Black has zero problems.
After 3.Nc3 the choice between 3...Nf6 and 3...Be7 is mainly a matter of taste. Both are played regularly at the highest level.
Black's simplest plan (which does not necessarily mean best) against the Bf4 variation is a Stonewall scheme: 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 (needless to say 4...Bb4 is extremely popular currently) 5.Bf5 0-0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.c5 Ne4 8.Rc1 c6, usually followed by ...f5.
ok what you got against Kings Indian defence, the most simplest system to understand and play?
The KID is an extremely complicated opening, unless you know/ understand nothing about it. In that case, I agree: it's "the most simplest"!
Yes but thats not what I asked. I asked for the simplest system to play against it. Also please see the edited text I provide a game where I tried bayonet attack with exchange sacrifice. I think I understood it quite well but was not able to find moves in the ending and came to the conclusion that it was too sophisticated for me and i need something more generic.