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King's Indian Attack

I know we both played a little bit poorly at some parts, but for all those KIA lovers out there, you might enjoy this game...
@ChessMathNerd :
Thank you. Sometimes I play KID too.
So I have three questions:
Black didn ́t do anything against the isolation of a big part of his armee on the Queensside. Why?
Black didn ́t do any counterattack.
After move 7 white had to know that the game will be against the G or H line and a KID.
Why did white block the F pawn?
After move 20 the H line was open and the black black bishop was the only one defender, but white waited till move 26 to attack.
Why?
I ́m sorry, I know I ́m a bad chess player, so I ask for better understanding.
Some answers?
This isn't the exact king's indian but a transposed king's indian with different moves, such as 1. e6
@luckykangaroo :
Why did black not play 0-0-0 in this setup?
Was 0-0 not a risk with the KIA attack on the white side AND the isolation of the most black armee on the queensside (and behind the very fine pawn formation where nothing come in but also not out?)
I ́m sorry I don ́t get it.
@HollyMu Those are good questions. First of all, black did notice that his army was mostly on the queenside, and he did try to counterattack. I think that black was so concerned about white's pressure on the kingside that instead of attacking himself, he tried to stop white's attack. This is a common mistake. In positions such as these, black has to disrupt white's queenside before white can get his attack underway. In my opinion, without looking at the analysis, black needed to play a move like d4 as early as move 11 or 12, but because his rook is x-rayed by white's bishop, he is not able to do so safely. He should have fianchettoed the bishop soon, or moved the rook, so that he could move a center pawn forward, preferably the d pawn, and try to trade the light square bishops before white's attack starts.
As for blocking the f-pawn, in this type of attack, white's f-pawn is the only pawn that almost never moves. The King's Indian Attack uses only the G and H files for the most part. The problem with moving the f pawn is that it allows black to open the e file by exf4, and then white has to worry about defending his center, instead of pursuing his attack.
The deployment of the bishop to a6 by black, while it looks nice, is probably an error, since it doesn't really make any progress towards opening up the center.
@HollyMu Why didn't black play O-O-O? Well, he played the first few moves as if O-O was his plan. In general, to switch plans during a game is a bad idea. If black castles queenside, I think white just attack on the queenside before black can really defend himself. Not sure about that though.
@luckykangaroo It is a King's Indian Attack, an opening for white. I suspect you have it confused with the King's Indian Defense, an opening for black that starts with 1... Nf6, played against 1. d4.
What I played was a standard King's Indian Attack.
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@ChessMathNerd said in #8:
> @luckykangaroo It is a King's Indian Attack, an opening for white. I suspect you have it confused with the King's Indian Defense, an opening for black that starts with 1... Nf6, played against 1. d4.
> What I played was a standard King's Indian Attack.
Oh, you were white. I thought you were black lol, I'm used to hearing "king's indian" and automatically thinking of king's indian defense because I play king's indian defense as black. I also mixed up my king's indian attack & defense, my bad.

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