The King’s Indian Attack and Defense bundle is two complete repertoires in one bundle. It combines FM Kamil Plichta’s 1.e4 based King’s Indian Attack repertoire for White with his King’s Indian Defense repertoire against 1.d4 for Black.
The King's Indian Attack
"Reign Supreme: The King’s Indian Attack" is all about dodging your opponent’s opening preparation, by avoiding main lines and getting Black straight out of book into a longer, positional, strategic game. You keep the pieces on the board and a complex middle game ensues!
Play like Fischer or Kasparov
It was one of the late, great Bobby Fischer’s favorite systems to playm as well as famous chess coach and instructor, Mark Dvoretsky’s!
Plichta’ s KIA repertoire is a standalone repertoire, built around the move order: 1. e4 2. d3 3. Nd2 4. Ngf3 5. g3 6. Bg2 7. O-O. It is a standalone repertoire, but it is also a great addition for any 1. e4 player looking to add a simplified, positional set-up against the Sicilian or French!
The KIA offers:
✔️ Very few forced lines: meaning your opponent won't be able to prepare with computer-like variations and you can outplay him or her in the middlegame and endgame.
✔️ Easy to learn: This opening is based more on plans and understanding than precise calculations.
✔️King safety guaranteed: Yes, you read that right! In the lines FM Plichta has chosen, attacks on your monarch are always objectively bad for your opponent.
✔️Hard to go wrong: If you make an inaccuracy or a mistake it usually means that you either lose the initiative or just guarantee equal chances for your opponent. On the other hand, if Black goes wrong - he is often mated!
Comes with optional 10 hours of King's Indian Attack instruction and over 15 hours of King's Indian Defense instruction!
The King's Indian Defense
FM Kamil Plichta ‘s "Too Hot To Handle: The King's Indian Defense" repertoire wasn’t designed to equalize against 1.d4 out of the opening. It was designed to win games! And, he spent the past 15 years designing and refining his repertoire to get it just right.
Why play the King's Indian Defense?
The KID is a hypermodern opening which means Black doesn't follow one of the basic chess principles: to fight for the center from the start of the game. Black's basic concept is to let White take over the center and lure the opponent into a false sense of security. Then, Black fights back with active pieces.
The best defense is...a counterattack!
The KID is a fiery opening that is beloved of attacking players. Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov were two of the greatest players ever and huge KID fans. But before them, Geller, Gligoric, Stein, and Bronstein were all devotees. And, more recently Hikaru Nakamura, Radjabov and the young firebrand Alireza Firouzja have employed it, with devastating effect.
Plichta’s take on the KID avoids a ton of mainlines. Plichta simplified his system in an original way that packs a punch and yet it is highly original.
A simplified and highly original repertoire
FM Plichta brings new ideas to the KID but has also deliberately simplified his lines to make the choices uncomfortable for White.
♞ Avoid theory with 7... exd4 in the Classical;
♞ f7-f5 break only recommended when it gives an advantage or is necessary;
♞ White needs to play very precisely to get any edge;
♞ Sidelines in almost every variation explored;
♞ Less popular lines deliberately chosen when they are equally strong;
♞ Chapters are ordered from the most popular lines to sidelines;
♞ A full 1.d4 repertoire for Black;
♞ Original lines and variations that have never been published;
♞ Database statistics for White after every theoretical move.
As FM Plichta says, less theory = more fun!
