Does he cover 10.g3 in the KID Bayonet? That is, 

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4 Nh5 10.g3.

ChessMonkey wrote on 02/08/10 at 21:05:56:


i agree the dvd feels to dry when you compare to the book as many lines is not their on the dvd. But still I rather look at Victors video than The humble WORLD CHAMPION Rustam K, who really shows no interest at all in chess. Rustam talks about the gambitline of you know which against the samisch, but i still hate to turn the dvd on becuase the is not one gram of love in RK material, but being World champion is of course cool.

@kstevens  Buy the book, if you want one item! The DVD is more fun and contains more flashy lines, but for soid geniun chess one have to read the perfect!! book.

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I'm interested in getting only one of these items from Bologan. Just a quick question. Which would be the better one to get since I only have the money for one or the other?
I am a club/tournament player if that makes a difference. 

I would also like a KID repertoire that covers strategies of the defense as well. I heard the book does a good job at explaining these. Does the DVD do the same? 

The King’s Indian: A Complete Black Repertoire by Victor Bologan book

or

The King’s Indian Defense Chess Opening DVD

In the introduction Bologan also says there is no White variation missing. But in the chapter about h3-systems after the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 he advocates 5...Nbd7 6.Nf3 e5 7.d5 Nc5 followed by a5 and sometimes h5 and Bh6 delaying castling.

I haven´t found any mention of the alternate and common White moveorder 5.Nf3 0-0 6.h3 after which his recommendation above isn´t possible any more. This is quite unfortunate because starting with CBM 132 there is a series of articles by the h3-guru Krasenkow offering exactly this moveorder. I hope this is not intentional...  

A pity he does not cover the same lines as it would be a perfect addition to his book.
normaly a dvd is good to highlight some important ideas, it would have been  a perfect combination

Well, I've been thru the first few chapters (just finished the 4 Pawns Attack) and, at least for my KID repertoire, I'm disappointed, though I've learned a few things.  It was deflating to hear him say in the intro that he does NOT intend to cover the same lines as in his book (except for the fianchetto line) and, in the lines covered so far (sidelines, Saemisch and 4PA), there is no overlap with what I play

Hi Bibs,

I agree with you about Chessbase here....

A short TOC for you and others interested:

After 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 he proposes the following lines:

- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.Bg5 d6 6.e3 c6
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 Nbd7
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.Bd3 0-0 6.Nge2 a6
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nge2 Nbd7
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0-0 followed by a6, Nbd7 and c5
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 0-0 6.Nf3 Na6
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Bg5 Na6
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.de5 de5 8.Qd8 Rd8 9.Bg5 Rf8
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.Be3 Nbd7 8.0-0 Re8
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 a5
- 3.Nc3 Lg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6
- 3.Nf3 Lg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0-0 Nc6 7.Nc3 a6

There are also chapters about the Fianchetto without c4 and Reti-setups without d4.

In the introduction he says there is not much overlap with his book except for the Fianchetto because here he sees no playable alternative. Vs. the Bayonet for example he offers 9.b4 c6 from his game against Bosiocic from this year.

I haven´t checked every chapter but all in all it goes from basic to slightly advanced, e. g. when he transposes to Hedgehog positions after a black …c5xd4, e6, b6 and Bb7 without much explanation what black should do.

Mine is set to arrive tomorrow (also got the first 2 volumes of Karsten Mueller's endgame DVD's coming in the same order ); I have Bologan's book so the DVD should be a nice compliment to it (or so I hope!)

Bologan KID DVD now available at ChessCentral.com.

http://www.chesscentral.com/The_King_s_Indian_Defense_Chess_Opening_DVD_by_Vik_p...

Anders wrote on 07/30/09 at 17:38:58:


Hi again.

Now take a look at the third screenshot from the link to the KID DVD in the ChessBase shop

http://www.chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=469

They do seem to have some difficulty keeping KID and Caro-Kann apart at ChessBase ... 

Cheers / Anders

I had the chance to talk to the man himself (Bologan/0 during the recent Greek Club Ch in Kallithea and he told me that he has done all the videos for his KID DVD and that he reccomends different things that these in his book. So, it looks that together with his book, his DVD will be a good KID repertoire for all levels.

I hope so, I thought i heard his book was pretty good.

Hi.
The Chess-Base web-shop has just released a DVD on Caro-Kann by  Bologan.

http://www.chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=449

If one look at the first sample screen-shot, it seems however there perhaps could come an additional DVD on another opening by Bologan soon...

Cheers / Anders