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The King's Indian Defence is a chess opening that begins
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 followed by ...Bg7 and ...d6. (3.Nc3 d5 is a Grünfeld Defence rather than a King's Indian.)
White usually continues with either 3.Nc3, 3.Nf3 or 3.g3. The King's Indian is a 'hypermodern' opening, where Black lets White take the center with the view to later ruining White's 'wonderful' position, often by an attack on White's king. It is a risky opening, which has been a favourite of players such as former world champions Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer and Tigran Petrosian. Prominent grandmasters John Nunn, Svetozar Gligoric, Wolfgang Uhlmann, and Larry Christiansen have also played this opening frequently.
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 | The King's Indian and the Grunfeld Defence, favourites of the world's strongest players ever, Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, have bothered white 1.d4 players for more than three decades. In contrary to more solid defences as the Queen's Gambit or the Nimzo Indian Defence in which white can play for a win or take a draw if he does not succeed, the King's Indian and Grunfeld make it difficult for...
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