King's Indian Defense - How to attack?
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I've been trying to learn some ideas/theory on the King's Indian Defense. I have Gawain Jones' KID course on chessable and that is an awesome source for learning this opening. The problem is that although I love this opening, I have very bad results with it. I usually play the opening phase quite well but in the middlegame I don't know what to do and how to attack. Are there any sources/youtube videos that would introduce the attacking patterns in KID?
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There are several strategies against King's Indian. My preference is to player h3 earlier to stop black bg4. Lots of people count on bg4 when playing black. If white plays h3 earlier, they don't know what to do.
After h3, white has two common tactics to win positional advantage.
One is to play bd3 to tempt black na6-nc5 to attack this bishop. I've found many black players like this route for their b knight. The trick is you want to play bc2 anyway. So nc5 gives you free tempo to play bc2, and then you can push b pawn (b4) followed by a3 to trap black knight at the side of the board(na6). This gives you big positional advantage
bg5 is also a useful move. The point is for black to counter with h6 (if black doesn't counter with h6, this bishop will be pinning black knight against its queen, and it always has potential to go bf7 attack black e pawn, which is usually stuck at e6). After black plays h6, white be3 retreats, and then qd2 attacking black h pawn. The best counter by black is to play Kh7. But Kh7 will make it difficult for black to push its f pawn (because its king will be exposed to the attack of white bishops and queen). Therefore, black has no quick attacks, and white can push its queen side pawns to gain advantage.
Hope the above helps.
Against an Early h3, Black is supposed to play c5.
Black changes the position from KID to more of a Benoni where the move h3 is considered a wasted move.
If Black plays normally like MyBrain is talking about or if Black isn’t prepared, The h3 line can be deadly.
It’s a very sneaky side line.
Compadre_J wrote:
Against an Early h3, Black is supposed to play c5.
Black changes the position from KID to more of a Benoni where the move h3 is considered a wasted move.
If Black plays normally like MyBrain is talking about or if Black isn’t prepared, The h3 line can be deadly.
It’s a very sneaky side line.
you are giving him next-level classes LOL.
With that said, are you sure black c5 is the best response to white h3? I am not challenge you. Just want to confirm. Because I've heard another theory that black should play c6 to cxd5 trading pawn and open up the c file. This leads to early fights at the queen's side, and white's h3 will be a waste move.
If you play c5, the center will be closed, and white may actually play g4, and then may long castle to using g4-h3 pawn to push at black's king side.