Are you tired of playing the same old openings time and time again? Perhaps it's time for a change, but you cannot decide between the numerous options available? Here's the answer: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas!
In this book, three renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at the ever-popular King's Indian. Instead of travelling down well-trodden and analysed paths, they concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colours. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!
Dangerous Weapons is a series of opening books which supply the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her opening repertoire. Many of the carefully chosen weapons are innovative, visually shocking, incredibly tricky, or have been unfairly discarded; they are guaranteed to throw even your most experienced opponents off balance.
- The King's Indian in a completely new light
- Packed with original ideas and analysis
- A large array of weapons to shock your opponents
Grandmaster Glenn Flear and International Masters Richard Palliser and Yelena Dembo are all highly respected authors who are renowned for their creative opening ideas and expertise.
Preface
The King's Indian Defence has long been one of the most exciting openings around. Indeed, it has a certain magical quality to it; we can all name brilliant sacrificial wins with this aggressive opening by such players as Bronstein, Geller, Fischer, Nunn, Kasparov and Radjabov. Unsurprisingly the King's Indian is very popular with all levels of player and, indeed, it is my hope that a wide range of players will appreciate the ideas presented in this work.
In keeping with the Dangerous Weapons ethos, one will not just find new ideas here, such as 7...Nh5 in the Classical, but also rehabilitated ideas like 6...e5 against the Four Pawns Attack. The ideas presented are by no means just for Black, though. Indeed, one will find some dangerous tries for White in the Four Pawns, as well as a more strategic Averbakh repertoire.
Throughout this project I have been very impressed by the creativity of my coauthors, and am already looking forward to trying out their well-researched ideas myself! Glenn Flear wrote chapters 3, 4, 9 and 10; Yelena Dembo contributed chapters 1, 6,12,13 and 14; and I penned the rest (chapters 2, 5, 7, 8 and 11).
As usual with the Dangerous Weapons series, this has been a most enjoyable work to produce. Indeed, I just hope that the reader likes studying these ideas as much as we enjoyed analysing them!
Richard Palliser,
York,
January 2009
Content:
005 Preface
006 Series Introduction
009 Attacking the Fianchetto
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nf3 Bg7 4 g3 c5)
026 The Four Pawns Attack Doesn't Prevent 6...e5
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 f4 0-0 6 Nf3 e5)
042 The Pawns That Bind
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 f4 0-0 6 Nf3 c5 7 dxc5)
066 Showdown!
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 f4 c5 6 d5 0-0 7 Nf3 e6 8 dxe6)
085 Continuing to Roll Forwards
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 f4 0-0 6 Nf3 Na6 7 e5)
114 Hold Back that d-pawn!
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 0-0 5 f3 Nc6)
125 Striking into d4
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Bd3 Nc6 6 Nge2 Nd7)
140 Advance that h-pawn!
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Nge2 Nbd7 6 Ng3 e5 7 d5 h5)
154 Cramp and Provoke
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Be2 0-0 6 Bg5)
180 Further Constriction with the Averbakh
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Be2 0-0 6 Bg5 Na6)
196 The Karklins-llincic Variation
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Nf3 0-0 6 Be2 e5 7 0-0 Nh5)
222 The Return of...Nbd7: Part One
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Nf3 0-0 6 Be2 e5 7 0-0 Nbd7 8 Be3 Re8)
240 The Return of ...Nbd7: Part Two
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Nf3 0-0 6 Be2 e5 7 0-0 Nbd7 8 Qc2 Nh5)
252 The Return of ...Nbd7: Part Three
(1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Nf3 0-0 6 Be2 Nbd7)
267 Index of Variations
272 Index of Games | 
