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Play the KIA....like an onion

Play the KIA....like an onion

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Note how the white knights switch sides.Brilliant isn't it!
Came up with that idea all by myself too 😏

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that's a brilliant way to lose two tempi with style!

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Not bad....but have you considered the Double Onion Corkscrew?

This reaches the same position but with Black also doing the Knight switch.

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Speaking of playing the KIA ...

Here a take by Duncan Suttles:



Whenever I play the KIA and black captures on e4, I end up with a funny looking bishop on g2. Black ends up with a wonderful bishop on a6. Here Duncan, quite originally, cuts all that out by not following g3 with Bg2!!! I'm not saying it's the absolute best way to play, but it blew my mind. 🙂

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
Not bad....but have you considered the Double Onion Corkscrew?

This reaches the same position but with Black also doing the Knight switch.

[pgn]
1. e4 e6 2. d3 c5 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxe4 5. Bxe4 Ne7 6. Ne2 Nec6 7. Bg2 Be7
8. Nec3 Nd7 9. O-O O-O 10. Nd2 Qc7 11. Nf3 Nf6[/pgn]
But where will I find an opponent equally versed in daftness as me? :'(

Suttles approach looks far more sensible than mine.No surprise there

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"But where will I find an opponent equally versed in daftness as me?"

Go to Open Invites and take your pick. 😉

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Wax on, wax off!

I have seen knights move this way in the Pirc Classical, where GM Joel Benjamin introduced the move 6. e6, which resembles a Hippo in some respects, and where the f6 and c6 knights have "cross-deployed" from time to time in response to encroaching white pawn moves.