Gawain Jones: King's Indian 1, hardcover edition

Quality Chess Verlag, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-1-78483-174-5, 688 Seiten, 2022.

The King’s Indian is an ideal response to 1.d4, combining dynamic counterattacking play with complete theoretical soundness. A past favourite of both Fischer and Kasparov, it continues to perform well at the highest levels of modern Chess.

King's Indian 1 is the first of two books which present a complete repertoire for Black. GM Gawain Jones is the perfect guide, being both a world-class player and a longstanding expert on the King’s Indian. This is the book version of Jones’s Chessable course on the same opening, re-edited and reorganized by Quality Chess.

This volume takes the opening moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 as its starting point, covering White’s main possibilities such as 5.Nf3 (including lines with an early h2-h3) and 5.f3.

The repertoire will be completed in King’s Indian 2, including antidotes to White’s tricky tries after 1.d4 Nf6, as well as the King’s Indian versus the English Opening, Reti and everything else (except for 1.e4).

Gawain Jones is an English grandmaster, twice British Champion and winner of the 2020 European Blitz Championship. He continues to use the King’s Indian as his main weapon against some of the best players in the world.

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