Kings indian defense what to do when opposition doesn't castle at all and carry a strong attack?

Hello everyone,

I played as black and lost this game. I only learned KID from online videos, no formal training. Can anyone analyse this game and tell me how I should have prevented the aggressive attack on my castled king, when the opposition doesn't castle at all. Thanks a lot - don't worry about the computer annotations, give your opinion. Thanks

I think you fell into the trap of trying to follow a "standard" Kings Indian plan in a non-standard position. Not surprisingly, it didn't work out too well. I'm far from a Kings Indian expert, but when White played that very early b4, you needed to change your approach to take advantage of that move. One other point, they may not mention it in the videos you've seen, but in the "standard" Kings Indian, where Black pushed his kingside pawns and White invades on the queenside, Black's light-squared bishop is a very important piece, both for attack and to defend the white e6 square that you weakened playing f5.

Hey thanks a lot for the replies guys.

@llama: Thanks as always, your input is much appreciated.

@Laskers: Thanks a lot for this reply. Your post was really good, made me realise many of my mistakes. I was not willing to change my game according to opposition moves and played the KID blindly and suffered. This makes me think, may be it is time I get some coaching in chess, I don't think I can improve much by only playing anymore, as I seem to have conceptual problems with opening theory. I have never got coaching lessons, because I was not sure how to maximise the coaching time. I will make another thread on the topic how to get the maximum from coaching. Thanks a lot. 

The chess openings are, in some sense, a dialog between the two players. Particularly in the beginning, it's a dialog in a foreign language--one where you know just a few words and phrases. But when your opponent says something that's not in your vocabulary, like 5.b4?! it's hard to figure out how to answer. I'm still working on that problem!

Another point is that Bg4 (for Black) is only good in a few situations. Generally speaking, Black's light-squared Bishop has a better future than White's... so there is no hurry for Black to bring it out to a square where it will probably be exchanged.

I would have played either 5. ... c5, or 6. ... c5, or perhaps 6. ... e5.

If you castle and they do not, you need to open up the middle of the board, do not let your opponent lock it down.