Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov of Bulgaria loves the King´s Indian Defense.

Having played it from his youth after reading Bronstein's great book on the Zürich 1953 Interzonal Tournament, his love for the KID is on display throughout this volume, wh ich is filled with creative ideas and strategies, tactics, and especially those shocking shots characteristic of the King's Indian. The lines recommended to you often involve giving up the center with ... e5xd4 and then using ... c7-c6 and eventually ... d6-d5 to break it all open at the right moment. The variations covered are:

1. The Classical Variation

2. The Samisch Variation

3. The Four Pawns Attack

4. The Averbakh System

5. The Bagirov Line

6. The Fianchetto System

Content:
005 Introduction

015 The Classical Variation

017 1a Flexibility in the Classical Variation

067 1b The Gligoric System

091 1c The Exchange

107 1d The Petrosian System

121 The Sämisch Variation

189 The Four Pawn Attacks

213 The Averbakh System

237 The Bagirov Line

273 The Fianchetto System

307 Solutions to the Exercises

355 Index of Variations