The King's Indian Defense

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone ever played the King's Indian Defense? It goes:

1. d4    Nf6

2. d5    g6

With a bishop's fianchetto intended.

well, i have played the king's indian defense, but never where the opponent played d4 then d5 after it.

Sorry!!! I ment to write 2. c4. Thanks for pointing that out!

 

Yeah, 2.d5 is weird.  2.c4 is the most common follow up, and yes I have played it a few times.  I'm not that fond of it though, I prefer to play a Colle System as white beginning with 1.d4, 2. Nf3, 3.e3, etc.  There's a lot of theory on this opening, as it is a favorite of GM's (especially right now in tournament play), so you can easily find many high level games where this opening is used. 

Yes, all the time. It is one of my favorite openings. What did you want to know about it?

I was wondering some of the best responses for White, and some general good moves for black after the bishop is put in a fianchetto.

Thanks!

I am a big fan of the KID as Black.  You pretty much always want the moves ...Nf6, ...g6, ...Bg7, ...e6 very early followed by a timely ...d5.  The way to learn KID is to go find games of masters with KID.  In fact, the two best players of all time are KID advocates: Fischer and Kasparov.

 As far as white... Why open d4?  I'm with many classic masters that 1.e4 is the only true way to open a game. 

Huh?  I've never seen a KID have an early e6?  If you mean to try for a Gruenfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5) you might play e6 but only in extremely rare occurences.  As for the KID it goes like this (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 is the start and a mainline follows 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5  6.0-0 Nc6 7.d5 Ne7 and there you are a mainline KID.  Note after 6...e5 white doesn't win a pawn (7.dxe5 dxe5 8.Nxe5 (8.Qxd8 Rxd8 9.Nxe5 Nxe4 10.Nxe4 Bxe5 is nothing for white and 10.Nxf7?? threatening to continue 11.Nxe4 if 10...Kxf7 loses to 10...Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 Kxf7 and black's up a piece for a pawn) 8...Nxe4 again 9.Nxf7 is a mistake for the same reasons as above and 9.Nxe4 is again met by 9...Bxe5 or 9...Qxd1 10.Kxd1 10...Bxe5 and there is nothing really advantegous about this position for white

Oh man, I totally screwed that up, I meant d6 and e5, and I flipped them.  Sorry about that.

can some one post a diagram of that im confuzuld