page 1 of 30; games 1-25 of 750  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Blumich vs W Kunerth   1-0 37 1938 Krakow E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 2. E German vs K Poschauko   1-0 63 1952 Helsinki ol (Men) E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 3. T Van Scheltinga vs Euwe   ½-½ 32 1953 Beverwijk E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 4. Najdorf vs Gligoric 0-1 48 1953 Mar del Plata E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 5. Berner vs Yanofsky   0-1 31 1953 Canadian Championship, Winnipeg, Manitoba (CAN) E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 6. J Sherwin vs Larsen   1-0 32 1953 Wch U20 final-A E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 7. Lokvenc vs Petrosian   0-1 38 1953 USSR vs. Austria E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 8. Gilg vs W Lange   0-1 21 1953 FRG Ch 02nd E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 9. Larry Evans vs Taimanov 0-1 35 1954 New York E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 10. Taimanov vs Larry Evans 0-1 36 1954 New York E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 11. J Jerolim vs E Gereben   0-1 32 1954 Amsterdam ol (Men) E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 12. J Jerolim vs M Fox   0-1 35 1954 Amsterdam ol (Men) E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 13. Gurgenidze vs Tal ½-½ 41 1955 URS E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 14. Gligoric vs Arsenije Lukic ½-½ 78 1955 YUG-ch E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 15. Ujtelky vs L Alster   1-0 53 1955 CSR-54ch playoff 3rd place E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 16. Najdorf vs Uhlmann   1-0 37 1956 Moscow E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 17. Pachman vs N Padevsky   1-0 40 1956 Dresden it E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 18. Gligoric vs Szabo   ½-½ 17 1957 Dallas E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 19. Benites vs I Asmundsson   0-1 39 1957 WchT U26 04th E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 20. Eliskases vs S Schweber   0-1 62 1960 Buenos Aires ch-ARG E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 21. Szabo vs J Penrose   1-0 43 1960 Leipzig E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 22. Reshevsky vs Gligoric   ½-½ 23 1960 Buenos Aires E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 23. Schmid vs W Pietzsch   1-0 41 1960 Leipzig ol (Men) fin-A E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 24. G Haase vs O Sarapu   ½-½ 62 1960 67th New Zealand Championship E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 25. Reshevsky vs Benko   1-0 41 1960 Buenos Aires E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1  page 1 of 30; games 1-25 of 750    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Aug-11-03    Helloween: 9.Ne1 is a nice positional move. The Knight will usually transfer to e3 and White will begin to push c4-c5, whether he prefaces that push with the bayonette-esque b2-b4 beforehand or not. Black will have to eventually crack the Kingside open with f7-f5 if he wants counterplay. Mar-17-04    Cerebrate2006: eventually as in 2 moves from now unless something weird happens. I love playing this as black or white, very exciting Jul-13-04    tomh72000: Yes, the play is incredible where black is trying for ...f5, ...f4, ...g5, ...h5 and so on, while white is simultaeously storming the queenside with c5 and sometimes b4-b5. Dec-06-04    Knight13: Since White wins more, maybe lots of people who plays Black in this position don't know how to handle the opening, right? Dec-06-04    Dillinger: White wins more in almost every opening; a better way to assess the strength of an opening as black is compare wins+draws to other openings. Feb-05-05    Milo: This opening has a terrible record for black, which I find unbelievable, as I have seen it disparged as an opening for white. Feb-06-05    BiLL RobeRTiE: 27.2% wins and 29.8% draws isn't terrible at all! Just looking at recent games too, Black seems to be doing very well, with 6 wins, 2 draws, and 5 losses in the past two years. Feb-06-05    Milo: Hmm... I tend to just look at the percentage white wins :). The expected score for black is around .42, about the same as the slav. Feb-06-05    Open Defence: The %s can be misleading, for example in a particular variation out of 10 games white wins 7, black 1 and there are 2 draws, now a significant improvement is found for Black and black wins the 11th game and players playing White abandon the variation, it will still show White win % at just under 70% Feb-07-06    NBZ: This line can lead to some very smooth wins for White if Black mishandles the position. Mar-26-06    Loisp: how about the white knight sac 33.Ndxe5!? FRITZ 5 - Kotronias V. [E98] (3) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Ne8 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 h5 13.c5 g5 14.a4 Ng6 15.a5 Bh6 16.Nb5 a6 17.Na3 dxc5 18.Qc2 Kh7 19.Bxc5 Rf7 20.Nd3 g4 21.Nc4 Qg5 22.Qc3 Bg7 23.Bd1 Bd7 24.Ba4 gxf3 25.Rxf3 Bg4 26.Rf2 Rd8 27.Qb4 Bc8 28.Bc2 Bf6 29.Qc3 Rg7 30.Raf1 h4 31.Kh1 Be7 32.Bxe7 Rxe7 33.Ndxe5 Nxe5 34.Nxe5 Qxe5 35.Rxf4 Qxc3 36.bxc3 Re5 37.Rxh4+ Kg7 38.Rhf4 Rd6 39.g4 Rf6 40.Kg2 Rxf4 41.Rxf4 Nd6 42.Bd3 b5 43.axb6 cxb6 44.Kf3 Re8 45.Ke3 Nf7 46.h4 Ne5 47.g5 Rf8 48.Rxf8 Kxf8 49.Bc2 a5 50.h5 Ba6 51.Kf4 Bd3 52.Kxe5 Bxc2 53.d6 Ba4 54.Kf6 Bc6 55.g6 a4 56.e5 a3 57.e6 a2 58.d7 a1Q 59.e7+ Kg8 60.d8Q+ 1-0 Sep-28-06    Erwin.Oosterbeek: I like the idea 9.Ne1 because black can't play 9...Nh5 anymore. After 10.Be3 and 11.f3 White can build up an serieus Queenside attack with b4,c5. Black hasn't much here I guess. Also the stats are good for White. LOL! Sep-28-06    SniperOnG7: <Erwin.Oosterbeek: Black hasn't much here I guess> Oh how I'd love to play as black against you in this position. Sep-28-06    Erwin.Oosterbeek: <Oh how I'd love to play as black against you in this position.>Tell me what's your vision then? Jan-01-07    SniperOnG7: <Erwin.Oosterbeek> Sorry for replying so late...I totally forgot I kibtzed here. Anyway, the position after 9.Ne1 is the pinnicle mainline theory of KID! Any KID practioner should have no other emotion than to love playing the black side of this line. Don't mind about my vision...what about the vision of all the GMs who have played or are playing this opening? Search a database for this position and you will find a wealth of games in which Black attacked and mated White's King. Though if you are Korchnoi behind that onlinehandle of yours, then yes...it is logical that you think <Black hasn't much here>. He is famous for his disdain for the KID :) Oct-15-08    SniperOnG7: I've stopped playing the KID for a while. Been investigating other d4 defences such as the Grunfeld, Slav and Semi-Slav. I was bored the other day so randomly played the KID on online blitz. Sincere thanks to my opponent: he used a classical setup (though not exactly this line) and I ended up finding how much I have missed my Kingside attacks during my time away from this awesome aggressive defence.

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