18.Kg1
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The 9.Ne1 main line KID for White
The King's Indian Defense
Author(s): FM Thomas Wolski
15.a5 again advances the a-pawn. You may wonder what White is achieving with this idea. Besides gaining more space, White now makes it very difficult for Black to play ...b7-b6 under favorable circumstances. This will be an important issue when White gets a minor piece to c5 later in many lines.
Instead 15.cxd6 should transpose later, while 15.Rc1 is also playable, but gives Black more counter play than our line. The game Huzman-Voekler (1996) then continued with 15...Rg6 16.Nb5 g4 17.cxd6 cxd6 18.Kg1 g3 19.Bg1, and White has to be very careful.