TopNotch wrote on 07/31/10 at 01:40:06:


Yeah, I take your point; I have won games on Black's side of that very line.

Bibs wrote on 07/30/10 at 01:09:00:



What are you referring to as "the improved Gallagher line" ? 

I have recently gotten into the KID as black because I have always enjoyed the rich positions from White's POV and found I enjoy equally being them as black. However I don't have much comfortability in the Fianchetto yet.

Many kid players in practice are not so strong tactically, the kid to me is a very strategical opening ... I consider myself tactically very good, but I deny to play the kid, because its positional play is so complex,
for me the  benoni (a small subvariation of the kid ) is there it's at

TopNotch wrote on 07/31/10 at 01:40:06:

TopNotch wrote on 07/31/10 at 01:40:06:


Largely, agree, but I am not annoyed at all, in fact rather chuffed at the prospect of a grind. I am just really happy when (weaker) white players play this. Cos:
1) I have avoided heavy theory and am in a chess game safely, ready to actually beat the lower rated through some Chess.
2) generally players less than, say, 2200 cannot play middlegames well without queens. 

See also:
d4 d6
c4 e5
de5
...eventually..eventually...
0-1

Markovich wrote on 07/29/10 at 17:39:07:


It's a bit annoying as only lower rated players have employed it against me, and the games tend to drag on for sometime. Still I have managed to win all my games against this variation, simply by refusing draws and playing till the wheels fall off. Some weaker white players believe the exchange variation and easy route to a draw, but that's only true among players of similiar strength, and what usually happens in practise is that the weaker player, usually White, gets mercilessly ground down. Something similiar often happens in the Danish Gambit when once again Black, usually the stronger player, adopts Capa's line which leads to a roughly equal endgame where White often gets outplayed. 

Equal doesn't neccessarily mean draw, but many players think so. Having said that, dull unambitious play by White is a fact of life in tournament chess, you simply have to make a mental adjustment when facing such an opponent and get on with the job. 

Many players think because KID players love a good hack, that its all they know how to do, but the stats tend to differ.

Tops

If I may be permitted to step in there, exchange has been no problem.
Exchange is a variation that any kid player should spend a lot of early time on. And I did. Dark squares and d4. Consequently got a big score. 
Mind you, haven't played one post-grivas.

Main black kid quandaries:
1. Do I have the energy for Nc6 v classical? Do I want it v a weaker but rybka-loving youngster?
Nc6 is true KID stuff, used to as a kid, but now...?
2. Versus fianchetto - what? Improved Gallagher line, or into Grunfeld territory.

TopNotch wrote on 07/29/10 at 03:53:12:


Zhao (Robson's opponent) had a different explanation:

Quote:

http://saintlouischessclub.org/news/2010-07-18/krushing-king%E2%80%99s-indian