Smirin: King´s Indian Warfare (paperback)

Autor: Smirin, Ilya
Verlag: Quality Chess
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Sprache: English
Buchumschlag: book
Seiten: 376

King's Indian Warfare is a practical guide to the most dynamic and ambitious defence against 1.d4. Learn to play the King's Indian like a world-class attacker from a life-long expert. Inside Smirin annotates his best games in the King's Indian, explaining his successes, including his mini-match of four games over a decade against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, which Smirin won 2½–1½. From sacrificial feasts to positional master classes, this book has it all.

Grandmaster Ilya Smirin is a three-time Israeli Champion, with a peak rating over 2700 and probably the most creative grandmaster of his generation.

Contents

Key to Symbols used

Foreword by Boris Gelfand

Preface

1. Always Dangerous

2. Kramnik

3. The King's Indian Bishop

4. Line Opening

5. Destruction of Pawn Structure

6. Knight Agility

7. Kamikaze Rooks

8. Fighting for the Initiative

9. Materialism

10. Endgames

11. My Two Favorite Losses

NameIndex

Game Index

352 pages, 2016, paperback, English

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