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Kings indian defense

OpeningChessStrategyTactics
How to play it, basics

Hey, Nourina with you.
Have you wanted to play a really cool opening in chess? I'm talking about the King’s Indian Defense as Black.
This opening looks like this:

https://lichess.org/XH8OYsWv

We can see that this opening breaks the rules by not trying to get immediate control of the center.
But the King’s Indian Defense will get control of the center a little bit later.
These are the 3 main ideas in this opening:

  1. Allow White to get a big center, then unexpectedly attack it.
  2. Wait until White castles kingside, then launch the attack!
  3. Try to create an unbalanced position.

As Levy said: once Black gets better, White will never get better.
Also, as the main idea goes:
If White plays e4, you must always play d6 to prevent the push.

https://lichess.org/Uj3RjorI