E60 · Indian · a defense for Black
King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, King's Knight Variation
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1.d4Nf62.Nf3g63.c4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, King's Knight Variation5.1M games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
85%4.3M50%
4.2%213k48%
3%152k51%
0.4%19k46%
0.2%10k42%
0.1%5.6k45%
0%1.0k42%
0%1.0k33%
0%59328%
Famous games in this line38k master games
Ding Liren (2806) – Carlsen, M. (2864)Carlsen, M. (2872) – Gelfand, B. (2777)Mamedyarov, S. (2801) – Carlsen, M. (2842)Carlsen, M. (2864) – Aronian, L. (2775)Aronian, L. (2782) – Carlsen, M. (2855)Mamedyarov, S. (2771) – Carlsen, M. (2864)Carlsen, Magnus (2862) – Nakamura, Hikaru (2772)Caruana, F. (2784) – Carlsen, M. (2843)- Family
- King's Indian Defense
- Category
- Indian
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- E60
- Line
- 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4
FianchettoSharpHypermodern
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King's Indian Defense: Semi-Classical Variation, Hollywood VariationE60 3…Bg7 4.Nc3 O-O 5.e3 d6 6.Be2 …Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Modern Exchange Variation, Kramnik's LineD85 3…Bg7 4.Nc3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 …
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For decades the King's Indian was considered suspect — until Bronstein, Fischer and Kasparov showed the plan: let White build the big center, lock it, and throw every kingside pawn at the enemy king. Some of the most violent attacking games ever played (Kasparov's ...g3 sacrifices) come from this defense.
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