A Grandmaster Guide: The Reti, King's Indian Attack, and others, based on the QGD.

Part of a three-part series revealing GM Alex Colovic's whole preparation with the black pieces against EVERYTHING, except 1. e4.

This third part of the series is about playing against the Reti, the Bird's Opening (1.f4), the King's Indian Attack, the Nimzo-Larsen Attack (1.b3), forcing a transposition against The English (1. c4), and other various sidelines. For more information please see the full blog post announcing this repertoire on my site.

Other books in this series:

> A Grandmaster Guide to the Queen's Gambit Declined For Black

> On the way to the Queen's Gambit Declined

Course stats

For: black pieces

Total students: 146

Recommended for: Intermediate players Advanced players

Trainable variations: 115

Avg. line depth: 11.30

Instruction: 2,265 words

Media: 5 videos

Released on: Aug 02, 2017

Support level: Medium

Section: 🎓 Titled player

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Variation Details

55 x The Reti (13.04 avg depth)

11 x Bird's Opening (1.f4) (12.36 avg depth)

8 x The King's Indian Attack (14.13 avg depth)

15 x The Nimzo-Larsen Attack (1.b3) (11.13 avg depth)

26 x Other First Moves (6.42 avg depth)

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Feingeist 122,090,620 Here it might be better to change the "so Black must calmly development first." to "....calmly develop first."... :) 2 months ago

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simplydt 8,704,750 I guess after a6 you just need to realise if White plays Ne5, he can’t really take the pawn despite attacking it three times! Then all is well. Thanks Alex! 4 months ago

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simplydt 8,704,750 Awesome, thanks. 4 months ago

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GMAlexColovic 5,840 In fact 8...Nbd7 is perfecly OK. In many cases it may lead to a simple transposition as both ...a6 and ...Nbd7 will be played. I chose 8...a6 more as an automatic reaction to 8 a4, just to bolster the b5-pawn. 4 months ago

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GMAlexColovic 5,840 The reason is in the move Na3. On move 4 c4 dc if White plays 5 Na3 then Black takes it without a loss of a tempo; in the position above the bishop is already on e7 so taking on a3 is much less appealing. 4 months ago

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simplydt 8,704,750 I noticed I am getting this position confused with 4. c4 dxc4; where after 5. Qa4+ we play c6 and so on.

Why is that plan no longer good here, based on the simple difference that White has now castled?

I will probably stop confusing these plans, now that I have noticed the key difference is c4 happens a move earlier in that line.

Cheers 4 months ago

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simplydt 8,704,750 Is there any good reason why 8...a6 is recommended here? I have gotten in trouble in Blitz after 9. Ne5, although upon careful analysis I see that is too early a jump, I can refute it next time, but I am curious as to why not 8... Nbd7; is the reasoning because the knight might be better on c6 sometimes? It feels like we should quickly make room for our rook to go to c8 no? 4 months ago

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GMAlexColovic 5,840 There will be new games of course, there Black played ...b4 instead of ...a6, but generally the line is very solid and reliable for Black and this evaluation won't be altered. Even in the Cramling game Black won! :) 7 months ago

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Setne007 5,930 There is a nice recent game in this variation, a rare lost by Pia Cramling who has great results with White: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/womens-world-blitz-championship-2017/13/1/1 7 months ago

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