King's Indian Attack

In the King 's Indian Attack (English King 's Indian Attack, or " KIA " ) is an opening of the chess game, which is not defined by a particular sequence of moves, but by a characteristic white building. Often plays White: Sf3/g3/Lg2/0-0/d3/Sbd2/e4 (see diagram), with Sbd2 is not constitutive of the KIA.

This opening is also in the King's Indian attire or ( with the initial trains Sf3/g3/Lg2 ) called Barcza system, after the Hungarian chess master Gedeon Barcza.

Ideas and motifs

The basic ideas of the King's Indian attack based on the King's Indian Defence ( rapid development of the kingside, possible attacks on the kingside, accepting disadvantage of space and enemy pawn majority in the center, exercise of figure pressure on the opponent's pawn center ).

The goal of the King's Indian attack is to change coin 's proven with black in the (KID, " Kings Indian Defense" engl., King's Indian defense ) strategy of pawn advance e7 - e5 with the advantage of the first move in an attack strategy for white.

Possible headways

Basically, two main options are to be distinguished:

White first opens with 1.e4 and selects the KIA typical construction only against certain black responses, especially against the French defense and Sicilian with 2 .. e6, probably not against 1 .. e5, Caro-Kann or Sicilian with 2 .. d6. This is because Black can play in the first-mentioned openings only at the expense of another tempo e6 - e5 and White otherwise given the opportunity itself e4 e5 to play (see section example). Possible move sequences are, for example:

1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 (followed by Nf3, g3, Lg2 0-0, see Example section)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d3 (again followed by g3, Lg2, 0-0 )

  • 2 About 1.Nf3 ( rarely also on 1.g3 )

White immediately makes the characteristic features Sf3/g3/Lg2 followed by 0-0 and often, but not always d3 and Sd 2. In this way of playing Black has more freedom in character development, according it comes to very different position images.

The further procedure depends on the black construction. Has Black d7 -d5 pulled the jumper on d2 supports the planned advance e2- e4.

Example game

One of the most famous games with the King 's Indian Attack won the later world champion Bobby Fischer Interzonal in Sousse 1967 Lhamsuren against the Mongolian International master Myagmarsuren:

1 e4 e6 2 d3 d5 3 Nd2 Nf6 4 g3 c5 5 Lg2 Nc6 6 SGF3 Be7 7 0-0 0-0 ( to avoid the subsequent orientation on the white kingside delay some players with their black castling and instead developing their first queenside with 7 ... b6 or 7 ... b5. 8 Re1 Bb7 on 9 e5 Nd7 Black prepares then by Qc7 and h6 own farmer march on the kingside before. sure h4 is to prevent g5 answered with 0-0-0 and Tdg8. ) 8 e5 ( This farmer e5 denied the black figures, the box f6. It shields by the black pieces from which to operate therefore on the queenside. ) Nd7 9 Re1 b5 10 b4 Sf1 11 h4 a5 12 a3 13 a4 Lf4 bxa3 14 bxa3 Sa5 15 Se3 ( The white attack routes are Sf1 - h2 - g4 - g5 plus or Nf3 DH5 or h4 - h5- h6) La6 16 LH3 d4 17 Sf1 Sb6 18 Sg5 Nd5 19 Ld2 Lxg5 20 Lxg5 Qd7 21 DH5 TFC8 22 Nd2 Sc3 23 Lf6 Qe8 24 Ne4 Nxe4 26 g6 25 DG5 Txe4 27 c4 h5 28 cxd3 Th4 TA7 29 Lg2 dxc2 30. dh6 DF8 31 Dxh7 and Black resigned, since he is checkmated in two moves.

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