Amen!

And as a K.I.D player let me just say I'm hoping this book sells well and the 4 Pawns Attack becomes popular again.     

Toppy

I don't think the title was in any way supposed to be a joke or a pun. There are clearly seen periods in between the KID, and there's no "the" to be seen in the title, making the implication harder to take seriously as well. If someone wrote a book called Kill the Nimzo, there would be no problem! I simply think it was written this way because Kill the King's Indian Defense takes up too much space! 

TopNotch wrote on 05/08/09 at 23:38:38:


Against 9...Bg4, he recommends 10. 0-0 Nbd7 11. h3!?, mostly following up with an attack on the kingside with g4, h4, g5, h5, etc...No Re1, no a4 normally. Skull cracking good fun! 

Markovich wrote on 05/08/09 at 23:44:43:


Agree with that certainly.

Though look at the 4P game
Palliser-McShane from last weekend at 4NCL.
White downed in 20. Good work from the black knights. This deserves a mention in next month's effort from Golubev-san.

Good to see Luke back.

TonyRo wrote on 05/08/09 at 21:23:07:


What about the 9...Bg4 Lines, those seem the most stable for Black.

Tops

I just received a copy of Kill the KID, and just from a quick cursory glance, it looks amazing! Half the book covers the critical variations in the Benoni structure, and the other half covers the rest. It seems as though even if Black has some way to make it through the maze of 9...Re8 10. e6!? fxe6 11. d6, it's extraordinarily dangerous. I'm excited! 

kylemeister wrote on 05/05/09 at 19:56:39:


Yes but Timothy Taylor made Marovic look like an idiot in his book on Beating The Kid, indeed he convincingly  blew quite a big hole in the often quoted Krzisnik - Marovic 1963, which theory holds as equal for Black but in reality he is close to dead lost.

Regarding 9...Qb6 I agree that theory holds that White is much better after 10.Nc2, but considering that Rybka is now the World's strongest player could signal that that assesment needs revising. As we speak I have Rybka working on it. While on the subject of Rybka, When GM Jan Gustafson was asked in New In Chess 2009/2 who his favorite player of all time was, his depressing answer was quote "Rybka 3. Sad but true".

Chess is currently experiencing a renaissance whereby none of the old theory in sharp openings can be trusted and everything has to be re-evaluated through modern technological eyes. Its as if chess is reborn.

Just to clarify, my problem is not finding equality for black in this line, but rather trying to avoid a sterile position. In general players that opt for this line as White are usually the weaker player trying to make a draw against a stronger opponent, no disrespect to Timothy Taylor who did show that if Black goes crazy he would be punished.

Toppy

I am running the 64 Bit version of Rybka 3 on my laptop which has these specs: 

Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 @ 2.50 Ghz
4 GB RAM
64-Bits Windows Vista Business

Not exactly a supercomputer, but no slouch either. The laptop is less than a year old