Quote:His recommendation of 6...Nbd7 and 7...e5 (instead of 6...e5 and 7...Nc6) vs the Classical is very interesting.
I've been playing this for quite a while and I always get enjoyable positions -- but, unsurprisingly at club level, I haven't faced critical lines. One beauty of ...Nbd7 of course is that as long as you're happy with 2 e4, you can play 1 d4 d6 and avoid/defang D-pawn Specials
and, should you wish, basically confine your mainstream KID lines to Classical and Fianchetto.
@ Konstrictor
Are you able to tell us briefly (without of course giving away his analysis) what GJ covers after:
8 Qc2. Does he go 8 ...c6 or 8 ...Qe7 aiming for a transpo to his main line (if so what on 9 d5?), or the altogether different 8 ...Nh5?
8 Be3 Qe7 9 d5. Does he cover 9 ...c5 (10 Bg5 Kh8 and ...Rg8) as he's played himself, or 9 ...Ng4 (or even 9 ...a5!?)?
In the free version: after 8.Be3 Qe7 9.Qc2 c6 10.Rad1 h6 11.d5 c5 12.g3 Nh7 (Gelfand-Smirin), he says White should provoke ...h5 now (iso 13.Nh4). There aren't many games here -- one with 13 Qd2 h5 and two with 13 Qc1 h5. Does Jones make a realistic case for Black, in your view? (Engines, in this line, like to play an early Kg2 preventing ...Bh3, a plan which also looks strong in the Czech Benoni and totally put me off that opening a few years ago -- but here I suppose Black's KB is a bit better placed than on e7 if White can't squash Black without the position opening up? ...)
@ TopNotch
Quote:FreeRepublic wrote on 06. Aug 2021 at 21:41:
TonyRo wrote on 05. Aug 2021 at 13:45:
I'm glad he covered both his pet 6...Nbd7!? 7.O-O e5 8.Be3 Qe7!? and 6...e5 against the Classical.
It looks like the former, might double-up as an answer to the Gligoric variation.
I am glad someone finally mentioned that. Smiley
I thought having the Knight on d7 iso c6 made this an inferior version for Black -- am I out of date?