White almost always fights the king's indian defense with pawn to e4 (not e3), grabs a space advantage with pawn to d5, and then plays for a win on the queen side while black tries to win on the kingside with e5 and f5 pawn pushes. The bishop is poorly placed on f4 because of the eventual e5 pawn push by black and because it doesn't aid an eventual queen side attack
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 works much better for white
thanks. I guess i should castle quennside then right?
Castling queen side causes more problems than it fixes. White's queen rook moves toward the kingside instead of the king rook moving towards the queenside like it should and the king will get in the way of the rooks. Castling queen side also interferes with a queen side pawnstorm as part of the queen side attack. The pawns defend your king and even though black would prefer to attack king side black can still get at an unprotected white king on the queen side.
Black's attack won't come until well into the game so it's best to just castle king side and accept the dangers of doing so
Ok, so this is an opening to a game that I ended up winning after about 50 moves due to my opponent hanging a peice near the end. Up until that point it was close. The position I'm putting up is up til move 10 on some variations.
I the first 5 moves are pretty simple, but I'd like some input on a few lines after that. Thanks in advance.
After the position shown, I have a few moves in my mind, tell me what ya'll think
h3: only in case black wants to play Bg4. 6. h3 Be6 7. b3 Nc6 8. Qd2 ...
e3: i want to play Qd2 so I can play Bh6, taking out the Bishop in the fianchetto, but e3 blocks this. e3 also opens up the LSB and protects c4. 6. e3 Nc6 ... not sure what black would play after this
Qd2: is what I want to do, but i have a weak pawn at c4. Opens up queenside castling in case i want to throw kingside pawns up the board later after taking Black's DSB. 6. Qd2 Bg4 7. Bh6 Bxf3
also, here i don't know which to do. 8. gxf3 Nc6 9. Bxg7 Kxg7 10. 0-0-0
b3: strengthens pawn structure, protects c4, that's it.
I'm kind of worried about black playing Re8 and e5
My biggest concern in this position though is which side to castle on, especially given the choice if a bishop captures my knight on f6.