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hi everyone this is Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn

and together with Chess lecture.com

I'd like to welcome you to today's lecture

now today I will talk about simple opening concepts

and as an example

I will talk about the opening of my youth

the King's Indian Attack

and the reason why

I played this opening when I was a kid

is because it was very simple

it was a conceptual opening

and I could employ it

basically against any of the black moves

such as the first move

e 6 or c 5 or c 6 and so forth and so on

so what is King's Indian attack

uh some of it

you might say starts after move such as night of three

and followed by simple play with g 3

Bishop g 2 castles d 3

sort of basically

you're playing King's Indian as white

now I actually prefer to play the King's Indian attack

via the first

E4

and the reason why is because immediately

you take away the d 5

which is the typical reply to Knight of 3 d 5

now it's a bit harder to get d 3 and e 4 going

and more importantly after g 3

Black can employ a very simple system with c 6

bishop g 2 bishop g 4 or bishop f 5 followed by e 6

and this is really solid

and it's hard for white to get March gonna play

so that's why I prefer first move E4

and now

your opponent doesn't quite know what you're up against

you might play main lines

so here

let's say they play the most common move these days

the Sicilian CFA and now you play d 3

you transfer into the King's Indian attack

you're gonna follow up with night d 2 g 3 Bishop g 2

then either f four or night G2F3

usually you castle short

and you have a very simple and easy plan

now the reason why this opening is so powerful

it's a conceptual opening

is because you're going for the setup

no matter what black throws at you

so let's say black plays E6

now instead of playing the main lines with d 4

you again play d 3 and after d 5 you play Knight d 2

now this opening is so good

that Bobby Fischer actually scored

a few very beautiful wins

as a matter of fact if you look through the

the library of lectures on Chess lecture.com

you're gonna see one of the very

I I should say

maybe one of the perfect examples

how to play it as white

if you look through the lecture by Jessie Cry

on Bobby Fisher's game

where he won in a beautiful style in this law

so not only can you play it against the C5

against the E6 the French

let's say if black plays C6

well the carrion

shouldn't prevent you from doing your setup either

d 3 d 5

Knight d 2 you support the center

and at the same time

you avoid trading Queens after d to X E d to X E

and again you follow up with g 3

bishop g 2 followed by a very simple setup

now what about some other openings

well of course it's very easy

especially if they throw alokine

you can play D3 92 followed by G3

usually transposes or the curve again d 3

and now the game could transpose to some kind of

Sicilian type of positions

if black plays c 5 followed by g 6

so when I was a kid

I used to play it as white all the time

and actually did quite well

and of course

once you get to grandmaster level or even master level

playing this system is not as easy

because your opponents are likely

quite prepared

and they're ready to face the setup as black

but I wanna talk about

why such a simple conceptual opening

didn't get as much praise in the books

or at the high level grandmaster chess

so besides Bobby Fisher game

I really not that many grandmasters play this as white

and the reason is usually if you're white

you should gain more space

so for example after e 4

d 6 d 4 is obviously the best move

there is no doubt about it

because you wanna take control over the center

so it's really

it's really hard for Grandmaster to play such moves

d three

because they want us

get the advantage as soon as possible

and it's clear that at the top level

moves such as d 3 you know

will not get you more than maybe slight edge

or I should even say probably just simple Equality

but on a club level and at lower levels

I think King's Indian attack is a great opening

especially if you don't have much time to prepare

because you only have to know the plans

and that's it because the setup is quite similar

against all of the different

setups that black plays

so let's start with a simple 1

e 4 e 6

how to play against the French

so the King's Indian attack

d 3 d five

so now black potentially wants to take on e 4

take on d 1 exchange Queens

and get your king in the center

and now you lose the right to castle

so the correct move order is to play knight b d 2 first

not g three

and not night f 3 because of d takes E

and these endgames are always fine for black

okay

so this is the key you play knight b

d 2 and now you're ready to do the g 3

bishop g 2 plan

so for example let's say night of six

g 3

c 5 Bishop g 2

night c 6

so black is doing the simple queen side expansion plan

and you develop your pieces on the king side

knight of three bishop e seven

castles castles

and now E5

so this is the key move in King's Indian Attack

you take up more space

you get rid of the powerful defender knight on f 6

and then you support the pawn with the rook

rook e 1

so this is the main idea

now if black tries to attack the pawn

you simply play queen e two

and you have a very nice defensive setup on the pawn

on e 5 then your plan is to play knight f 1

h 4 knight 1 to h two

followed by night g 4 in the future

so this is the plan of attack

so let's play some simple moves here for black

let's say b six

night F1

there should be 7H4

so you see you're already getting the expansion going

and now

you're only a few moves away from getting the powerful

attack so let's say black plays Rook f 2

e eight

and here actually

you might consider playing move with c three

sometimes c three is regarded as

you don't have to play it

but stopping night d 4 in the future

and potentially you wanna meet d four with c four

or c 4 or d 4

so c 3 is a useful prophylactic move on the queen side

and you can throw it whenever you feel

black is trying to create some threats

and of course

now black is struggling to find a plan ideally

black wants to play on the queen side

but with b 6 bishop b 7 moves

black is a bit too slow

so now if black let's say plays b five

good idea to play B4 you play night H2 A5

so getting the expansion going

and now is a good time to play H5

so now you're gonna play night g 4

and maybe h 6 and bishop g 5

and try to explore the dark squares

so for example b 4

night g 4 again look how powerful your attack is

and even if black opens up some files

on the queen side

it's still not enough to disrupt your attack

because look at Black's pieces

knight on d 7 knight on c 6

bishop on b 7 are not really participating

in the defense of their king

and if black doesn't play h 6

which is by the way quite dangerous move

because it allows all sorts of sacrifices

and now after pawn takes h 6

knight takes h 6 check

you could see that black king is totally wide open

and of course night takes H6 is also possible

illuminate the air at least

and both of these sacrifices

are quite common in these types of position

and so if black doesn't play h 6

let's say they play bishop of 8

then actually white can play h 6 in the right moment

and notice that after g 6

the dark squares are weak

so having the dark square bishops on a faith

actually helps black but nevertheless

after bishop f 4 or possibly even bishop g five

and bishop f 6 or knight f 6

it's easier to get a powerful attack going

while the same time

black can't really do much progress on the queen side

so

all of this shows how powerful white attack could get

now let's think about it

what if black decides to castle Queenside

which is a reasonable choice

so let's go back to the beginning

and take a look how this could happen

so after e 4 e 6

d 3 d 5 knight d 2 knight of 6 g 3 c 5 bishop g 2

knight c six

and I G F 3

let's say black simply plays queen c 7 castles b six

Rook e 1 bishop b 7

e 5 97 queen e 2 castle long

so this is a possible alternative

now you might ask

how is white gonna develop his attack

because the king is no longer on the king side

at the same time white has to be careful

if he plays his attack immediately

let's say he starts going c 3 and a 3 followed by b 4

after g 5 White can really get in trouble

because the only defender is the knight on f 3

and after h 3

h 5 it is white who is gonna get in trouble

so that's why

even in this position the plan with h 4 is quite useful

so let me just show you what could happen

so for example night F 1 bishop E 7

h 4

aiming at stopping aiming at preventing G5 h 6

night f 2 h 2

g 5 so black is ready to rip open the the king side

but now you play this quiet looking move h five

let's say Rook d 2 g 8

9 g 4

and not only do you completely stop Black's attack

Black's pieces are totally paralyzed

so of course your next plan is to play c 3

a 3 and b 4 and get the attack going on the queen side

so you see this setup the King's Indian attack setup

is quite versatile against any plan that black chooses

as a matter of fact

let's take a look what if black plays Sicilian

so move 1 c 5 so

this is

probably a better approach

to facing King's Indian attack

because the pawn on e

6 will no longer block the bishop

and also

this allows black to fianchetto the bishop on g 7

so of course

we can play the closed Sicilian move order night c 3

but I actually prefer

the move order that I played in my youth is d 3

so let's just see what could happen for example d six

now there is no need to play night BD 2

so you could play simply g 3

g 6 bishop g 2

bishop g 7

and let's see how white can play this position

so of course now that you can play close Sicilian

you can play f 4 followed by knight f 3 in castle

but this is a little bit different opening

I can show you that

even King's Indian attack approach works here

for example knight f 3

night of six castles castles

and now again you don't wanna play knight c 3

you wanna play knight B d 2 followed by knight f 1

so for now prophylactic move rook e one

night C 6 Night B d 2

so black usually tries to play on the queen side

and now h four

B5 night F1

and then you're gonna play night H2

now remember one thing

whenever black plays 97 in these positions or even 98

Black is really gonna get in trouble

after the move h 5 this is very typical

a pawn storm to break the defences on the king side

and now G takes H is always weakening the king

and if black simply ignores

then you can play h 6 in the right moment

and really get the attack going

and if black kind of keeps the knight on f 6

you can always change your plan and play knight e 3

so don't put your knight on h 2 until later so for now

you can simply play

for example b 4

you can follow up with either night e 3

now that c 4 square is open

or you might even try to develop your bishop

with the move bishop

to g 5

or perhaps even Bishop to f four

although bishop f 4

I don't like as much because of knight h 5 and b 2

pawn is hanging

so yeah

I would actually prefer to play knight e 3 right away

and then put the knight on c 4

c 3 and d 4 so now you actually play in the center

as opposed to playing on the king side

because this is quite a nice buffer

with the bishop on g 7 to stop the attack

so this is what could happen against Sicilian

for example but as a matter of fact

I actually prefer to put my pawn on f four

and play for a setup that I can show you in a second

so night of 6

now night of 3 or h 3 to prevent bishop g four

castles knight of 3

knight to 6 castles

rook b eight

g 4 so

this is what I actually prefer

against the Sicilian setups

and after b 5

you can play night c 3

b 4 92 you're gonna play f 5 night f 4

g 5 and just start rolling the pawns

so the pawn storm is much better than the piece storm

against the Sicilian type of setups

and again King's Indian attack ideas are quite similar

you put the bishop on g two points

d 3 e 4

and then you move your knights over to the king side

and start the attack

now what's left so

we can play it against virtually any move that black

so e 6 c 5 what about the perk

well against the perk

we can also play D3 followed by the same kind of setup

but let's talk a bit a little bit about the Caro can

I should say that against the Caro can

instead of playing d 4

you can play d 3 just as well for example

d 5 Knight b d two E 5 night g 3

Bishop d 6

g 3 so the plans are gonna be a little bit different

so instead of the king side attack

you're actually gonna play in the center so for example

either knight f 6 or knight e 7 bishop g 2 castles

castles

and now usually black plays something like knight B

d seven

followed up with a 5

rook e 8 and so forth so your plan is the same

rook e 1

except now there is no need to play knight f 1

you wanna play c 3 for example

a 5 c 3 and challenge black in the center if rook e 8

and now you can play simply queen c 2

and really it's hard for black

because he has to solve the problem

of the bad bishop on c 8

now you at the same time can play in the center

for example

you can play for d 4 or take at the right moment on d 5

and you can also play on the queen side

so the reason

why I like this setup for white

is because it's so flexible

now

not only you can play in the center on the king side

but let's say you wanna play knight f 1

so if black makes some kind of useful move such as h 6

you can play knight f 1

followed by knight e three or night H4

and take the F5 square so

it just shows you how simple and elegant this setup is

for white

so I hope you Learned a few lessons

and the most important is

I want you to understand the conceptual ideas

behind the setup for why

not only could you use it against any opening

black can throw at you French

the Sicilian Caro can the perk

for example

but if you can understand the fundamental ideas

and plans

I think you'll score a lot of points in this line

thank you so much and I hope to see you all next time

bye bye