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Luke McShane vs Shanglei Lu
Isle of Man Grand Swiss (2019), Douglas IMN, rd 2, Oct-11
Formation: King's Indian Attack (A07)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
1-0

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Oct-11-19  luzhin: Characteristically imaginative pawn sac by McShane (18.g4!?) leading to a fantastic positional squeeze. Black cracked with 32...b5? but it must have been hard to resist.
Oct-12-19  areknames: This is a Closed Sicilian, not a King's Indian attack. The doubling of the rooks on the f file (rather than capturing the bishop) at the end is a touch sadistic but oh so very effective. Impressive performance by McShane.
Oct-13-19  Ulhumbrus: One point of 11 Nd5 is that White's queen is defended by the bishop on e3 so it can afford to advance to e7 and take Black's queen's bishop, and so gain the bishop pair. This costs time but Black does not manage to make it count.
Oct-13-19  Everett: <Oct-12-19 areknames: This is a Closed Sicilian, not a King's Indian attack. The doubling of the rooks on the f file (rather than capturing the bishop) at the end is a touch sadistic but oh so very effective. Impressive performance by McShane.>

KID players love playing closed Sicilians as white because... wait for it... they’re just like KIAs

Oct-14-19  areknames: <KID players love playing closed Sicilians as white because... wait for it... they’re just like KIAs> Hardly. I'm a KID player and I don't play f5, Nh6, Be6 and so on. The KIA mirrors Black's KID set-up, so one *always* plays Nf3 very early.
Oct-14-19  seneca16: I used to be good at getting the pawn to f6 and backing it up, imprisoning the opponent's bishop, but I've never seen a grandmaster allow it before.
Oct-16-19  Everett: <areknames: <KID players love playing closed Sicilians as white because... wait for it... they’re just like KIAs> Hardly. I'm a KID player and I don't play f5, Nh6, Be6 and so on. The KIA mirrors Black's KID set-up, so one *always* plays Nf3 very early.>

Disagree with you.. the piece placement is secondary to the d3-e4-g3 structure and fianchetto. That's the nugget of the system.

White obviously has more flexibility re: piece placement in this system, ergo can get away with early qside bishop development, f-pawn pushes, and variable kside knight placement.

Oct-17-19  SChesshevsky: <Ulhumbrus...and so gain the bishop pair. This costs time but Black does not manage to make it count.> Blacks ...Nd4 is good if exchanged by white or if ...Nxf3 or some other but otherwise doesn't appear well placed. Looks like McShane might have crossed him with Nh3. Then after the Nd5 trick, ...Nd4 not secure and c3 kick tempo can be very handy. Sometime shortly after 8.Nh3, might have considered ...Nd4-Nc6.

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