29 thoughts on “Play Against the King's Indian Defense – GM Varuzhan Akobian – 2013.02.27”

  3. Great teacher !
    The problem of smyslov for higher levels is that black would switch to benoni and won't play …e5 but rather …na6 and …c5 and white is not ideally prepared for this set-up

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  6. Just a 1400 player here but I noticed something interesting.
    At 23:00 bxd5 is possible but qxd5+ and there's a chance to save the rook at c2.
    At 23:27 after kh8 the same move is not possible anymore so bxd5 is winning if you don't stack the rooks. I imagine that this was analyzed during the actual game but got lost in the lesson. So he says he could have already taken on d5 before stacking the rooks but that's not accurate.

    Just my 2c … for what it's worth.

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  7. Very well explained for all levels.
    And, the game itself is very interesting.
    No doubt that when e3 is played by White instead of the usual e4, Black has to understan the consequences.and GM Akobian explains the ideas well.

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  12. rlly needed this cuz of school activities we have chess tournament and many people uses kings indian and mostly strong opponents i lost on the fifth round but still got 5th place but there is still next matches so i needed this tnx so much

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  16. They forgot to write what game was being analyzed, so here it is :
    Akobian,Varuzhan (2556) – Foygel,Igor (2438) [E61]

    Minneapolis HB Global op Minneapolis (3), 19.05.2005

    1.d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2.c2-c4 g7-g6 3.Nb1-c3 Bf8-g7 4.Ng1-f3 0-0 5.Bc1-g5 d7-d6 6.e2-e3 Nb8-d7 7.Bf1-e2 c7-c6 8.Qd1-c2 Qd8-c7 9.0-0 e7-e5 10.Rf1-d1 Rf8-e8 11.Ra1-c1 Nd7-f8 12.b2-b4 Bc8-f5 13.Qc2-b3 Nf6-e4 14.Nc3xe4 Bf5xe4 15.d4xe5 d6xe5 16.Nf3-d2 Be4-f5 17.c4-c5 Nf8-e6 18.Bg5-h4 g6-g5 19.Bh4-g3 Ne6-f4 20.Be2-f1 Bf5-e6 21.Qb3-c2 f7-f5 22.Nd2-c4 Nf4-d5 23.e3-e4 f5-f4 24.e4xd5 c6xd5 25.Nc4-d6 Re8-f8 26.Qc2-b3 f4xg3 27.h2xg3 Ra8-d8 28.Rc1-c2 Kg8-h8 29.Rc2-d2 Bg7-f6 30.Rd2xd5 b7-b6 31.Qb3-e3 Be6xd5 32.Rd1xd5 b6xc5 33.b4xc5 Qc7-g7 34.Bf1-d3 Bf6-e7 35.Nd6-f5 Qg7-f6 36.Nf5xe7 Qf6xe7 37.Rd5xe5 Qe7-f6 38.Bd3-e2 h7-h6 39.Re5-e6 Qf6-a1+ 40.Kg1-h2 Rf8-f6 41.c5-c6 1-0

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  17. I learnt a lot from your videos, I was and still an average player, but recently won against a player of 1700 ranking, which I couldn't even imagine a month ago, before making every move, i tried to remember every tricks you taught. Thank you so much.

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  18. what happens after Rxe5 black responds …Rxd3? i mean white ends up in winning endgame (up material and passed pawn)

    so is black playing a few moves on hoping for a catastrophic blunder or something?

    (the sequence after Nf5 and the forced moves afterwards)

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  19. fascinating lecture

    i have been using the e4 push without much thought- sometimes i can get a queen trade and a pretty boring position

    but i always felt that the e4 push just started a chain reaction that i might not really want to ignite

    this variation actually fits more into my d4 game than with e4 and it still keeps black from all the chaos and confusion

    will be trying this when i get the chance (also there is nothing real complicated to study)

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