Also a review on the book by chessville or something would be nice.
what is the best book on the King's Indian Defense and Why?
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None of them will give you a complete repertoire. Some if not most of them are concentrating on only one line in, say, the Sämisch or such. I recently ordered Panczyk's book on the classical variation because I've liked his method of going through openings, but since it's yet to arrive to my bookstore, I couldn't go and recommend it at this time.
http://www.chesshouse.com/kinds_indian_defence_s/29.htm has plenty to offer but you'll have to look the reviews up yourself.
And of course a great way to gain an insight on an opening you're trying to learn, is to get a game database and go through a large number of games quite quickly so that you'll get the idea of the basic structures.
Eg. Go to chessgames.com and on the frontpage just choose the opening you want (king's indian), and since this gives you over 32,000 games, then narrow it down a bit. Say on the time period. I put in the tag 'at least' on year 2000 and got 13,588 master games with the most recent theory. Of course you could just search the games on your favourite player etc.
try to get a hold of this book then. its published 2009.
I stand corrected :D
Apr 19, 2010
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Panczyk's book is excellent for white. galagers book is excellent for black. Paczyks is probably fairly expensive cause written last year while gallagers can be bought used fairly inexpensive but his is specifically geared towards beating the KI. A saimish book can be bought used for under 5 bucks if you like that specific line. KI is very opening theory memorization. So you have to like that opening and memorize move orders up to like 13.
opticnerve wrote:
try to get a hold of this book then. its published 2009.
Yes, Bologan's book is probably the best choice. I mean, how often do you get the chance to read what a 2700 player has to say about one of his favourite openings? Chess Stars is a very good publisher too. If I played the KID I would probably go for this book, and probably wouldn't need any others. For when white avoids 2.c4, Yelena Dembo's book "Fighting the Anti-King's Indians", is supposedly quite good, and offers some pretty ambitious choices for black. I don't own either of these books, but you can find reviews of them on amazon, as well as other places, and I have only heard good things.
Didn't you want the same thing for the gruenfeld?
Do you keep switching from one theoretical giant to another?
Yeah... I'm learning how to play both.... I love memorising openings.. it seems so easy for me
edpratomo wrote:
how about Golubev's book? any good?
Inspirational, but not educational.
I've read many books on the king's indian defense. and I find that (unless you're Radjabov's roomate) Victor Bologan's book is the best!
Well I got ''Understanding the King's Indian'' from Golubev. It's 200 pages, with 5 chapters on the classical and 7 chapters covering one other line each, total 12. It will offer instructive games, lines, sidelines and some text. It seems like a fair middle road to me. In reality white could play all those lines and few people would have the time to learn even more than that. The book is not so much reportoire based, meaning there is no tree in it. It should be clear enough from the chapters what you need to do of course and they're small enough to be ok to handle.
I can't compare it to Bologan's book, but this one is absolutely compact and all business, not with huge diagrams and lots of white spaces on the pages.
Dutchday wrote:
Well I got ''Understanding the King's Indian'' from Golubev. It's 200 pages, with 5 chapters on the classical and 7 chapters covering one other line each, total 12. It will offer instructive games, lines, sidelines and some text. It seems like a fair middle road to me. In reality white could play all those lines and few people would have the time to learn even more than that. The book is not so much reportoire based, meaning there is no tree in it. It should be clear enough from the chapters what you need to do of course and they're small enough to be ok to handle.
I can't compare it to Bologan's book, but this one is absolutely compact and all business, not with huge diagrams and lots of white spaces on the pages.
I apologise for my comment above. I was unaware Golubev had a newer book out.
king's indian warefare by smirin
& bronstein on the king's indian i would recommend
Feb 12, 2022
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I've chosen Bronstein "on the king's indian" to be my basis. The KID deserves a solid foundational foundation.
Kotronias is the most complete.
https://www.amazon.in/Kotronias-Kings-Indian-III-Planta/dp/1907982531
I'm looking for a book that gives me a complete repoitore, is easy to read and also gives me the understanding I need to play the opening confidently if my opponent doesn't play differently.