Punish 1.d4 With The King’s Indian Defense [Key ATTACKING Ideas]

02.07.2024

Get The Crystal-Clear Guide To Reach 2000+ ELO Rating Faster
FREE Masterclass ►

Take Your Chess Skills To The Next Level With High-Quality Courses
Learn here ►

💰💲 Join the RCA Affiliate Program, promote our courses, and get 50% commission –

🔹 King’s Indian Defense Mysterious Sideline –

♛ Find the variations shown in the video in this blog-post –

In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares the top 5 best chess opening traps from the King’s Indian Defense, which arises after the following moves: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6. The King’s Indian Defense is one of the most popular and solid chess openings for Black against 1.d4.

Black fianchettoes their kingside bishop with g6-Bg7, allowing White to control the center with their pawns, and then aims to attack them. The main idea for Black is to target the d4-pawn, and there are plenty of ways to achieve that.

Black can develop their queenside knight to c6, targeting the d4-pawn. They can play Bg4, pinning White’s knight that defends the pawn, or even go for the central pawn break by playing e5 at some point.

In addition to learning the opening traps, you will learn the key ideas of this opening, common attacking patterns, and common opening mistakes by White and how to punish them.

Most importantly, you will learn these across different variations of the King’s Indian Defense, including the Normal variation, Orthodox variation, Four Pawns Attack, Samisch variation, and Makogonov variation.

▬▬▬▬▬▬
► Chapters

00:00 Best Chess Opening Traps in the King’s Indian Defense For Black
00:12 Trap-1
02:50 Trap-2
04:40 Trap-3 (for advanced players)
07:40 Trap-4 (Sämisch Variation)
09:08 Trap-5 (Four Pawns Attack)

► Follow RCA on social media
Facebook:
Instagram:
TikTok:

📗 Free chess courses –

#IgorNation #ChessOpenings #ChessTraps #OpeningTraps #KingsIndianDefense #KingsIndianDefence

20 Comments

  1. Please make a video on how to play against the nimzo larsen attack

  2. I heard that in d4 openings you weren't supposed to play Nc6 before playing c5? When does this apply?

  3. At 6:28 What if black plays Bf3? Then isn't white losing? If not can you tell me what to do? Thank You

  6. You lastly did it
    Thanks coach 🙏

  7. thxs, this helped me a lot, cool ideas too

  8. As always thank you, Igor!

    PS- no idea why they call it “4 pawns”

  9. Is there any way to counter that variation where we castle opposite sides ( black king side and vice-versa ) in London system.
    Something like
    1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. c3 d6 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Qc2 Re8 8. Nbd2
    Bg4 9. O-O-O *

  10. I think there is an error at the time 6:25. White can play Bf3 attackiung the black queen AND covering Rh1. Black can resign. 🙂 Or am I blind?

  13. Great ideas and easy to remember/understand. Thanks! I think in my next few tournaments I'l just play for these traps and see how things go, instead of worrying about complex positional issues.

  14. That's brilliant! So helpful. I'm hoping you'll also cover what to against the fianchetto, London, and some of the Bg5 lines in future videos. Great chess teaching! I'm recommending your videos to everyone I know who wants to improve their chess.

  15. My opponent was literally crying when I used this thank you very much for this weapon against d4

  16. The King's Indian defense is the pirc defense ????

  17. At my level. Opponents don't do main line responses. They never move out the c pawn in response.

  18. 8:28 why did you sacrifice the knight? Couldnt you have just played queen h4 anyway

  19. I've been using the Kings Indian plan against a computer and the computer is murdering me.

Comments are closed.