Timeline for What is the name of the following chess opening? What are its pros and cons?
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| Sep 13, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | dwo | With d4 (or d5 as black) played it can hardly qualify as a KID. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 15:54 | comment | added | Lance Roberts | @dwo, my answer was based on the original question which didn't specify color. It has since been modified to be from white's side, so it's the Kings Indian Attack now. It's not the Catalan, because you don't see an early e4 in that line. Thanks for the bump, I've edited my answer. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 15:52 | history | edited | Lance Roberts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2014 at 9:28 | comment | added | dwo | And this is neither the Kings Indian Defense nor Attach. If you play the pawn to d4, you have a structure called the Catalan(ian) Opening. Black could response with the KID, but there are better replies. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 13:25 | comment | added | user545 | the indian defense is a black opening against 1.d4 As white it is just the King's Indian (Attack) | |
| May 5, 2011 at 18:52 | comment | added | Lance Roberts | @thesunneversets, yes, as BlueRaja points out, there is a King's Indian for white. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 18:42 | comment | added | thesunneversets | A "hypermodern" opening... regarded as "highly suspect" until the 1930s! Crikey! One further question: that article seems to take it as read that the King's Indian player is black. Would it therefore be considered really bizarre to play a similar sequence of moves as white? Because (not being a very deep chess thinker) I've never made much of a distinction between playing it as white or black. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 18:35 | history | answered | Lance Roberts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |