Garry Kasparov's King's Indian Games

[@HangingPawns]

Here are other players I plan to cover. Please suggest more if you want! Carlsen's Sveshnikov, Ding's English, Karpov's Spanish, Simon Williams' Dutch, Kasparov's Sicilian, Tal's Sicilian, Tal's Benoni

[@rumaulia2709]

Anand or Alireza's Semi-Slav

[@EgoCZ]

Spassky/Polgar Kings gambit

[@atanasalexandrov692]

That's a great idea. It will be very cool if you make a video about Tal Benoni.

[@tobias2252]

Happy to see you plan to cover Ding's English. Dubov (probably Catalan) and Rapport (random bs?) would be great as well! Very creative players.

[@anandbenegal]

Happy with the Sicilian variety that is being covered; would be happier if we saw some games in the Alapin^

[@avasti561]

every KID player be like "I HATE THIS KING'S INDIAN, I WILL NEVER PLAY IT AGAIN" next tournament comes *plays KID again*

[@sighmahmale]

true

[@HangingPawns]

I know the feeling. Had it for every opening I played.

[@cynica2616]

@@HangingPawns Bobby Fischer said that "Mar Del Plata is a forced win for black." This is what keeps me going.

[@Musicrafter12]

@@cynica2616 which is why players stopped allowing the Mar Del Plata lmao

[@rise1495]

I love your channel no one does this educational chess content like you thanks a lot your videos are very helpful (2150 fide and always played the KID)

[@Fitness4London]

I used to wonder who was this Kid that everyone played, then I realised it was King's Indian Defence.

[@michaelmolenaar1460]

Thanks for the coverage on peoples specialty openings im really enjoying this series keep up the great work!

[@pedroparmesan8993]

Havent even watched the video yet and i know it's gonna be fire

[@haralabosskatopodaros8315]

Great video and series Stephan! Also Tal's benoni would be a great idea too i think

[@HangingPawns]

I will do Tal's Sicilian and benoni games in two vids.

[@haralabosskatopodaros8315]

​@@HangingPawnsGreat! Looking forward to it

[@cynica2616]

I've heard a lot about MVL's Najdorf. Agadmator says that MVL is one of the best practitioners of the Najdorf Variation. Made me wonder who are some of the other top players known for their skill in this opening?

[@rmemeisel]

Great video. I think the first one was the most insane win. But i liked how Kasparov adapted to Yusupov as well

[@robwilliams3592]

Nice, very nice... Part 2, YES!

[@amineshili7214]

Thank you so much , i play the KID and i was waiting for this video ❤❤

[@Krilehor22]

As strange it is, I'm struggling with opening from the White side more than I do with Black. With Black, I feel that I control the game more than I opponent - for example, I can play Caro-Kann against all e4s. However, with White, my opponent chooses what opening will we play...I'm a d4 player, so I have to be prepared in the Tarrash, the KID, the Slav, the Benko...how am I supposed to learn all of these?... So I'm really looking forward to openings from the White side to get some stable repertoire:)

[@tomasscholtus]

I agree with you! I am also a d4 player, and with black I play the Caro-Kann against e4 and the KID against d4. I think that you just have to learn to play against all these openings with white. I think its even worse if you play e4 with white, there are so many different options for black. If someone chooses to play the Sicilian or the Italian game its a nightmare…

[@commentwarrior]

The game against Korchnoi is also featured in Shankland's small steps to giant improvement I believe. At least from g5 onwards

[@nippp..]

Really love the explanation 😆..taught a lot of thing..can u make a video on english opening played by anatoly karpov😄

[@HangingPawns]

I might. I'll add it to the list!

[@alexandergee4677]

Amazing video

[@user-ts2co4ov5h]

Kasparov GAVE UP kings Indian in 1994. So it can't possibly be that great

[@Musicrafter12]

1997, after Kramnik beat him over the head with 9. b4. But close enough. Then he gave up the Gruenfeld in 2001 too and started playing exclusively Nimzos, QGAs and Semi-Slavs.

[@gusleffers9265]

First few seconds in and I know this is going to be a good one, glad you changed your mind Stjepan! You’ve been on fire with the videos lately, excited to watch.

[@gabrielk2295]

Seing Kasparov in action reminds me why he is the Goat (maybe along with Carlsen?) those two first games are pure power and destruction

[@HangingPawns]

Still Fischer for me but Kasparov is close.

[@ApopheniaChess]

Gotta say, the Korchnoi game has got to be the best because of ...Nh1!!

[@brucewallace2]

There is a famous Kasparov KI game where he sacs the Q. Am I right? I think it was against Kramnik? Yes Kramnik v Kasparov Munich 1992. Excellent video btw.

[@pdrbrito]

Hey Stephan can you cover the King's Indian Attack for White?

[@СавелийБерезнев]

Can you make a video about carlsen sveshnikov games, please?

[@HangingPawns]

I'm working on it now:)

[@stefan21505]

That you didn't cover the game karpov - kasparov from linares 1993 is shame. I love karpov but man he got beat in that game...

[@prasadnprabhu2562]

Very nice but stjephen can you please make like a long video of simon williams games featuring classical dutch defense please❤❤

[@HangingPawns]

I was planning to do a video with his dutch games, yes.

[@Thesniper825]

Im pirc player the defence i see wit KiD is just delaying d6 move i wonder can i benefit from this KiD games?

[@ziggy4709]

Yes 1.the difference between the KiD and Pirc is the C pawn. The KID player as white plays C4 taking up space and threatening to play on the queen side with B4 A4 while in the pirc white doesn't play C4 because they plan to play in the center. 2.because of this, it's easy for Pirc players to transpose into KID positions without C4(which should be advantageous because black gets all the king side play and play is one move(C4) behind. Pirc players can learn from KID defense strategies of kingside attacks And KID players can learn from Porc players on how else to play for the center if you don't play E4. Overall if you're a Pirc player I'd say just take up the king's Indian and have a solid repertoire against anything. You'll always be in familiar position regardless of what white plays.

[@Thesniper825]

@@ziggy4709 thank you 👍

[@kou9429]

Can you share Radjabov dragon sicilian next

[@Val-sj1mw]

Please do a video about Kan games

[@mayankthakur5341]

hey stepan how is your name written

[@gusleffers9265]

I think it’s Stjepan

[@HangingPawns]

Correct.

[@sweet_stranger114]

The video is very good and i became emotional after watching this. I cried a lot. My mom also cried a lot. My neighbours also cried

[@Thesniper825]

girl?

[@jeffgillum7094]

The problem is your commentary is words only, youre calling moves with no visual examples.

[@cedriccappelle2036]

What do you mean??

[@0willow0]

Anything he didn't demonstrate seemed pretty simple and trivial to visualize. His analysis videos are some of the finest on KZbin, better than most titled players.

[@sgrey9181]

What rating are you? Not to rating-shame, but if you can’t visualize the stuff he’s saying, either pause the video and try to figure it out by yourself, use an engine to understand the ideas, or just don’t watch his videos. Stjepan doesn’t baby his viewers, he targets his videos towards player rated similarly to him. He has such a big following because there are a lot of players, myself included, from the 1400-2200ish range who want interesting chess content without any amount of pandering to lower rated players.

[@mcronrn]

“The problem” 🤣