King's Indian Defence

Really? Yeah, I didn't know that.

For example, my King's Indian course that I've done, it was my fourth course.

It was published, I think, December 2019.

It had originally like 400 lines.

My course number 8 was published May 2021, so now it's going to be 5 years.

And this is going to be like the final update.

Thank God, because it was the King's Indian Attack course versus the Knight F3G free move order with so many move orders for Black, so many possibilities.

Because when you play an opening which is non-challenging in the center, then your opponent can do anything.

Same thing.

You could go from the Sicilian, I mean, from the King's Indian to the Benoni, for

example.

Let's say Benoni, yes.

So you have to like forget about that, right? You have to trust it and you have to like go for the future growth in that sense.

Very similar approach.

yeah yeah yeah okay so because then we discussed you know let's say potential disadvantages of system openings and so far of course you mentioned a couple of things as well you mentioned maybe not seeing double positions but you try to solve it by looking at master games for example but there's also this element of predictability right you become a target in a tournament because people know exactly what you're gonna play right you're this king's indian guy with his purse guy so was it a problem for you personally in your tournament games

Never, man.

Yes.

Hopefully... oh yeah why is it so so slow I wonder let me see yeah I think it will be faster right now so in this game guys very briefly I will show you Vera Menchik versus Sir Alan George Thomas and please watch this game I won't even make a video about this later on on my channel it's like same-ish against the Kings Indian Vera Menchik positional style player right she's playing for space and so on and already here d5 space gaining move Black is going backwards, so white intensifies the space advantage, comes g4.

While white wants to attack the kingside, preparing the storm.

final phase of this game is so beautiful also about pawn storms this rook g1 move as well is beautiful potentially eyeing for the opening of the g file you might wonder how and she will tell us very soon castle long now everything is set yeah for attacks on different flanks so we'll see some violence right now very very soon it's just a beautiful beautiful middle game position knight g3 The point of Rg1 starts to become visible to a strong player's eye and she will see the point of this move quite soon.

turning back yeah

exactly so that's another branch of London and But then within the people that still recommend d4, bishop f4, usually what will happen is against the Fianchetto line specifically, King's Indian, Grunfeld, knight c3 will make an appearance.

So it's not that they play the Jobaba London, but that knight c3 is the recommendation against that.

And I think that's really where it all separates is there's so many Londons out there, but There's absolutely none that treat the entire opening as a system, which is what I'm doing.

For a young improver, though, I wouldn't recommend it because it also limits your experience of chess.

I think for very young players, it's much more important to play big openings like the Sicilian and the Royal Opus and the Queen's Gambit and King's Indian, stuff like that, because you kind of get to know the complete chess possibilities in the opening.

By the way, I haven't mentioned it, but I should have started by saying it, that I believe that the openings are the most interesting part in chess.

at all okay please yeah