A08 King's Indian Attack (1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 Nf6 3.Nf3 c5 4.O-O Nc6)

This is a rather old game, played over six years ago at Chess.com. At that time I was still creating open challenges and this is one of them. The game went wrong for me on move 11 when I moved my bishop to d7, which was passive and I should have gone for the aggressive square g4.

The best square for the bishop is g4.

Armenia123 found the strongest reply 12.dxe4 and then I made the game losing blunder 12...Nxe4. A better alternative for me was 12...d4, but even then I would have been in serious trouble. The move 12...Nxe4 is a horrible move because it loses a piece by force. Had I not moved my bishop to d7 and ruined the connection between the queen and the bishop on d6, then the move Nxe4 would have been a playable option. The game ended with the moves 13.Nxe4 dxe4 14.Qxd6.

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1.g3 A00 Hungarian Opening d5 2.Bg2 Nf6 3.Nf3 c5 4.0-0 Nc6 A08 King's Indian Attack 5.b3 e5 6.Bb2 Bd6 7.d3 7.c4 d4 8.e3 0-0 9.exd4 cxd4 10.d3 h6 11.Re1 Bf5 12.a3 a5 13.Qc2 Nd7 14.Nbd2 Nc5 15.Ne4 Bxe4 16.dxe4 Qb6 17.Nd2 1/2-1/2 (17) Aleksic,N (2417) -Pegorari,P (2380) Cutro 2001 7...0-0 8.Nbd2 LiveBook: 9 Games. Black is slightly better. Bf5N 8...Re8 9.e4 d4 10.a4 h6 11.Nc4 Be6 12.Nfd2 Bg4 13.f3 Bh5 14.Qe1 Nb4 15.Qd1 g5 16.Rf2 Qe7 17.Nxd6 Qxd6 18.Nc4 Qe7 19.Qd2 Nd7 20.f4 f6 21.Raf1 Rf8 22.Bh3 Nc6 23.Bf5 Kg7 Macedo,A (1825)-Veiga,E (2082) Natal 2016 1-0 (45) 8...Bg4 9.e4 d4 10.h3 Bxf3 11.Nxf3 b5 12.a4 a6 13.Nh4 Re8 14.Nf5 Bf8 15.g4 c4 16.bxc4 bxc4 17.Ba3 Bxa3 18.Rxa3 c3 19.g5 Nd7 20.Qg4 Nf8 21.h4 Nb4 22.Rb3 a5 23.f4 Kazarian,A (2162)-Paulet,I (2272) Amstelveen 2017 0-1 (37) 8...h6 9.c4 d4 10.Ne1 Be6 11.Ne4 Nxe4 12.dxe4 Rb8 13.Nd3 Qe7 14.f4 b5 15.f5 Bxc4 16.Rc1 Bxd3 17.exd3 f6 18.Bf3 a5 19.Bh5 Rfc8 20.Rb1 Nb4 21.a3 Na6 22.Qd2 Qd8 23.Rfc1 Romano,J (1911)-Ruiz,C Buenos Aires 2003 0-1 9.e3 Re8 10.a3 e4 10...Qd7 11.Nh4

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Armenia123	1733	Vierjoki,T	1863	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Tasha	-	1–0

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