This concept makes King’s Indian easier than ever

[@simmyyoohoo]

Just wanted to say I really appreciate the newish trend where you overlay the analysis board in a secondary window to flush out the alternative lines. That is really helpful.

[@Mal1234567]

Flesh, not flush.

[@Wesz808]

Imagine being Alex's opponent. You're playing your very best and you knowm with every move you make, Alex is taking his time explaining what to do and what you're doing wrong 😅

[@JCNEWS-ajc]

😂😂😂

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

A post-mortem on the living, bro..

[@treyrichardson3162]

The conductor is the "CEO" of the orchestra. :)

[@lehoangtong654]

*King’s Indian concept* 1:22 game 1 _ 1:41 d6 _ Wh bishop G5 (2:56) -> 3:27 better (4:56 Variant 6:00) _ 6:31 tactic & tactic (10:42) 22:15 Game 2 _ 23:11 d6 _ 30:21 Queen Fatality _ 36:07 Deadly setup 37:33 Game 3 (indian vs london) _ 38:13 the setup _ 42:00 magic blow

[@mannylokzzz]

It’s uncanny how you produce videos answering questions before I even have an opportunity to ask them.. & nice shirt

[@Daniel_550]

Alex, I'm a fan of how you teach chess, especially London and Caro-Kann. King's Indian Defense is that I always wanted to learn to yelling well, but I always miss some details there. But thanks to your video, it's getting much more clear. Thank you for your work and hope someday you will release a course with King's Indian Defense against 1. Nf3, d4, c4.

[@theyugijoker5856]

Yesterday i Had ptsd flashbacks and was Not comprehending Well. I shut myself in my room turned the Lights down and Just Had your Video in the Background. I dont know Why but it helped me calm down. So much that the flashbacks stopped and i Fell asleep. I dont know what it was but your voice, helped me stay grounded. I Just want to thank you for doing what you doing. Without knowing you helped me and thats fantastic. Thank you

[@jean-francoisberrue4434]

Your king's Indian series is incredible. Imo one of the best you've done! Thanks Alex 🙏

[@abdullahhusain9336]

The educational value of your videos is always excellent, but your hilarious analogies are what forced me to subscribe. Glad I discovered your channel xD

[@tiendaweii]

My new favorite chess channel. Cheers, man.

[@Dolfski]

Conductor is the word your looking for 😁

[@jorgerodriguez-cx1wq]

Thanks for the content Alex! Very helpful and nice sense of humor in all your videos 👌🏼 Would love to see a video for how to master the Ruy Lopez and Italian game openings. 🙏🏼

[@pascalf6111]

Nice to combine ideas from the benoni and KID im waiting for the jobava london course on chessable! When will it comes out? Greetings ❤

[@bjaurelio]

Interesting to see you go with the e5 break against the London. I recently watched a Naroditsky video where he recommended c5 vs a standard London setup because of the bishop. Perhaps if they played be2 vs bd3 that would make the difference. I will need to go re-watch that speed run video

[@AlexBanzea]

in the grand scheme of things, everything is fine vs London, but e5 is more 'to the throat'.

[@maulanarifqi4699]

boss of the orchestra called conductor yes he's the one with the magic wand to make a magical sounds and thank you so much for this video

[@Wordsalad69420]

Blunders but still wins with 2.6 seconds left. Legend!

[@ghost7ii692]

really enjoying the video. would love to see more openings for black against d4!

[@berkay8277]

Please I need more jobava london videos, got from 800 to 1200 in a few months. Thank you Alex

[@TheDempC]

Im 37 and just starting. Wished I would have started a lot longer ago. But better late than never.

[@Scarydragon-64]

Is there any chance you’re working on a king’s Indian defence Chessable course? The rating climb is so good, and I already have you London and Car Khan courses, a KID course would be amazing.

[@bagelmanb]

at 14:00 instead of Qb7 how about Nxd5? Can't take with knight due to Qe1#, if he takes with the queen it's Qxc3 winning a pawn plus trading knights for a winning endgame plus threatening Qe1# on the next move.

[@puzzician]

Your videos are paced perfectly and answer all my questions. You’re at perfect 1600 brain speed to get us up the next 200 points. Nice ASMR touch too.

[@sheldontaylor7796]

that 1500 in the first game played really well for his rating!

[@carlkligerman1981]

Yay more King’s Indian! My man… ;). Esit: I laughed out loud during the elevator/waiting music! So funny man!!!! LOL…. The queen is the ‘conductor’

[@Hassy171717]

"Lets take the less likely scenario... you have a date with your crush..." Damit Alex why do you have to hit so close to home!!!

[@Happygamer10193]

There’s no shot you uploaded the exact video I needed lmao

[@lionmane1979]

@20:46 opponent has Kf1 instead of Kd1. Would that save the Bishop (perhaps)

[@cralkred9615]

This video was amazing. Educational, funny, and well explained

[@randomrandy452]

In your first game move 15. f3 ; Nxd5 looks like a very nice tactic. Pawn is pinned and queen is tied to down defending the knight

[@AlexBanzea]

that was working too yeah. Somehow computer liked my move even better, but good find!

[@EdHaynes-z6c]

This made the concept much easier!

[@itsvictornieves]

Me: starts playing kings indian Alex: lemme post a video on kings indian

[@alexandernelson477]

"They usually mate us" I thought that was the goal 😂

[@TheMichiganFishHunter]

I have a Kings Indian book by Neil McDonald and one by Joe Gallagher, both an Everyman chess book, and most of the analysis is right on. Its strange to see 2000+ elo fall so effortlessly.

[@bubbahottep8644]

IMO, in that last game, if the opponent was like me, the reason he wasn't playing on tilt was because he didn't realize he was playing down a piece. He might've just noticed it at the end though.

[@billystewart927]

I’ve been playing 2 weeks, I’m around 650 and just now starting to understand how important pawns are. I’m struggling with pawn structure a lot, I thought of them as basically throwaway pieces

[@flowerinkplant]

I got the London, Caro, and KID. But this KID is more complex than Caro, I need to watch these videos several times ❤ Thanks Alex.

[@naimishtiakahmed9221]

I'm doing Colle-Zukertort & KID. No matter how complex it is I'm finding it better to study just to opening a thousand times than studying thousands of opening only once.

[@jonadair2588]

You're the best, Alex, keep it up :)

[@alireza-cn2xr]

11:02 we have tactic i think N×d5 yes? btw i found your channel recentley and its so good thanks for the content❤ (just saw someone mentioned it like two month ago😂)

[@mkmasterthreesixfive]

1. d4 d6 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 g6 4. Bd3 Bg7 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Nbd2 O-O 7. c3 e5 8. dxe5 dxe5 9. Nxe5 $4 Nxe5 10. Bxe5 Qxd3 $1 11. Bxc7 Re8 12. Qa4 $6 Bg4 13. h3 $2 Qe2# Thank you for familiarizing me, with the basic plan of Kings Indian. I got 98% accuracy this game.

[@GaryKanabay]

I enjoy your videos, Alex, I have bought both of your courses and I am looking forward to the third: Jobava! And, I want to add, your metaphorical anecdotes are usually hilarious! Hey, nobody gets 100% accuracy, right?😊

[@Martin_Neal]

54:34 the 'conductor' of the orchestra.

[@jonathansampson7450]

Thanks Alex!! These videos are always super instructive :) I have a question: against "weird" or unorthodox openings like the Bird, the English, or 1.Nf3, is it a good idea to play the King's Indian Defense?

[@AlexBanzea]

its even better vs those!

[@bronsondiamond2025]

a LOT of my games end up with me doing rolling or ladder CM's with two rooks or queens or one of each, and so I need to work on my end game strategy coming out of mid game which means my mid game needs to be better. Do you have any mid game videos I can watch? I like your style of educating especially with the dual chess boards.

[@ScottCabernet]

"Boss of the orchestra" is the conductor

[@mandarbilpe481]

I'm very confused about choosing opening against d4... Should I play d5 or kings Indian.. I just need more space from the start to avoid confusion. I'm 1550 rated fide..please suggest me good opening against d4 for more space 🙏🙏🥺❤️

[@hata6290]

Btw the word you were looking for, the musician boss, was conductor 🎉

[@davidbatchelder85]

you are so funny on how you joke around. amazing

[@howlingwolf317]

I'm still trying to figure out what I like to respond with on D4, so more King's Indian games is much appreciated. I already shifted to playing a lot of London and Caro from your other videos.

[@vintagelover3786]

I really needed this Thank you ❤

[@fightclub571]

Thanks a lot for the Kings indian videos!!

[@jefftaylor1186]

At my current elo (1708 blitz) My opponents king‘s Indian defense is always terrible because I play the Botvinnik English against it and they usually are only prepared for the main line.

[@doctorh1llbilly]

Good stuff, Alex!

[@smashergrilla954]

I started playing kings Indian by accident when they shut me down by not playing e4 and play d4 I usually play the sicilian accelerated dragon because of u but I find the kings Indian is pretty much the same.

[@charlies8282]

Conductor, Alex a conductor runs the orchestra

[@gregg3457]

Thank You Chess Master for another excellent video!

[@FloydMaxwell]

Third game, the queen was the Master of Ceremonies

[@JohnzillaTheHun]

I love your videos man! You should be excited to know that you were name dropped in the latest Eric Rosen video where he plays Andrea Botez at some “wobble chess” A spectator asked if she was using Hans Nirmann’s Jobava London course and she said “No, Alex Banzea” I hope it brings you some good views! (But not too many because then others will know all the tricks you’ve taught me in the Caro and Jobava.

[@shoumyajitroy5102]

Dear Sir...I love ur videos...cld u pls make separate videos on specific variations of king's indian like averbakh, semi-abervakh, bayonet, saemisch, makagonov, etc..thank you

[@joewilliams8252]

Alex thank you for sharing your knowledge of the KI and the lines that give a black player equality or better position. keep up the great work

[@user-hi3ke6qh7q]

after he played f3 couldn't you still play knight takes d5? check it out and lmk.

[@robwilliams3592]

Good stuff... Three very instructive games for club players...

[@andyross2601]

Conductor or maestro. CEO of the orchestra 🤣

[@ButtafeW2entertainU]

Why didn’t you take Nxd5 after f6 at 10:39sec. ?

[@AlexBanzea]

because I am a terrible chess player

[@kaidoChess]

You’ve helped me get so good at the Caro that I started making my own videos 😭🫡💜

[@misterclownface]

I was about to comment that (CEO of the orchestras) but then you said it. That is indeed what it is called.

[@simphiwe_stb]

good videos thru out. love it

[@ruthxk7844]

Director d'orquestra in Catalan :D great speedrun session!!

[@ruthxk7844]

ps: that means I understood the rumanian word perfectly! I don't even recall where CEO comes from 😂

[@Willeinhelm]

Loved your caro kann course. Hoping for a KID course as well

[@mylifemyhacks4283]

We definitely need more of such informative videos 🎉

[@RayanSoul]

love your videos ty so much

[@benvanasse3397]

Hi Alex - Thanks for the video

[@robwilliams3592]

Would be interesting if you could get into this variation in the KIA...

[@devjyoti5614]

Bro sounds like a aamr artist I am gonna follow this guy both sleeping and learning at the same time.

[@thetransferaccount4586]

most instructive chess content is back

[@bernie4366]

Don't you want to make it a higher priority to prevent the exchange of the g7 bishop?

[@AlexBanzea]

it's too time consuming for white usually. it's never really a problem in the King's Indian (like in the Pirc). Two different openings because in the Pirc white is saving the c4-move which leads to a faster attack!

[@bernie4366]

@@AlexBanzea Tks for the reply. I've seen videos where the player says protect it with your life, and a couple now that allow the exchange. At my level (1300ish) it probably doesn't matter much lol

[@manncz]

Thanks for all the instructive a fun content. I typically get at least something from each vid :P

[@Aabi-Bro]

Hey respected man !! Please do a 800-1200 rating climb with Trompowsky attack Plzzzzzzz😢❤🎉

[@Reclaimer88]

Awesome video - when is your Jobava London course coming out?

[@AlexBanzea]

Around February estimating

[@Reclaimer88]

@@AlexBanzea awesome can't wait!

[@a.m.armstrong8354]

That b5 gambit is pure poison! I think the presenter later..

[@JegsLasala]

What if instead of e3 they play e4?

[@mathewsamuel1386]

How does one get you to coach them, please?

[@elizabeth4689]

These opening videos are great

[@xx_radu]

cel mai top roman la sah💪💪💪

[@adazen3496]

great content, regards from Poland!

[@stevesidare2493]

The word you're looking for is Conductor.

[@papa-pete]

Banzea your analogies are too real 💀

[@wargamesstore2374]

vrem mai multe climb cu king indian attack si defense

[@wikiwing348]

Game 3, they need to read your chessable london course

[@5RustyBin]

conductor of the orchestra.

[@georgcantor8859]

"10 years and no life except playing this game..."😂

[@coenkuijpers1800]

Your hairdo gets more interesting every time 😂

[@Zawnpuia1640]

bro i love this

[@DavidPeriard]

This was a very good video 😎

[@robertberger8981]

Very entertaining !!!

[@stephenklump7615]

54:30 the conductor

[@masudshah7405]

Alex always drops bars

[@darryljones7603]

Hey thanks!! My main defense!!!

[@johnedward71]

alex are o modalitate simplă de a-l explica.

[@wrathofpunjabi]

Hello Your videos get better and better, and the jokes get worse! Lol In the second game, if white went Nge2, what would be blacks plan because f5 would be harder to achieve. Thanks

[@guidogm]

alex ! are you planning to do a kid's course?