Not obvious advantage | Esipenko - Mamedov | King's Indian defense

Rauf Mamedov, playing solely King's Indian and big student of this opening defends against prodigy Andrey Esipenko, who lost first game of their match. Esipenko carefully maneuvers and tries to outplay tricky opponent. ► SUB: https://bit.ly/36J8of0 ► TIP: https://bit.ly/2XSayGS  Esipenko, Andrey (2642) Mamedov, Rauf (2659) #andreyesipenko #raufmamedov Event: European Blitz 2019 Site: Tallinn EST Date: 12/07/2019 Round: 14.3 Score: ½-½ ECO: E94 King's Indian, orthodox, Donner variation 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O c6 8.Re1 Na6 9.Be3 Qe7 10.h3 Nh5 11.Bf1 Nc7 12.Qd2 Ne6 13.Rad1 Rd8 14.g3 exd4 15.Nxd4 Bxd4 16.Bxd4 Ng5 17.Be2 Nxh3+ 18.Kh2 N3f4 19.Bf3 Ne6 20.Be3 Nf6 21.Kg2 h5 22.Rh1 Nf8 23.Bf4 Bg4 24.Bxg4 Nxg4 25.Bxd6 Qf6 26.Qf4 Qxf4 27.Bxf4 Ne6 28.Bd6 f6 29.Rd2 Rd7 30.Rhd1 Rad8 31.b3 Ne5 32.Nb1 Nf7 33.Ba3 Rxd2 34.Rxd2 Ne5 35.Bb2 Rxd2 36.Nxd2 Nd7 37.f4 Kf7 38.Kf3 g5 39.f5 Nec5 40.Ke3 Na6 41.a3 Nc7 42.b4 c5 43.b5 Ne8 44.Nf3 Nd6 45.Kd3 b6 46.Bc3 g4 47.Nh4 Nb8 48.a4 Nd7 49.Ng6 Ke8 50.Nf4 Nf7 51.Nxh5 Nfe5+ 52.Kc2 Kf7 53.Kb3 Nd3 54.Nf4 Nxf4 55.gxf4 g3 56.Be1 g2 57.Bf2 Kg7 58.Kc3 Kh6 59.Kd3 Kh5 60.Ke3 Kg4 61.Bg1 Kg3 62.Bf2+ Kg4 63.Bg1 Kg3 64.Bf2+ Kg4 65.Bg1 Kg3 66.Bf2+ ½-½ The King's Indian is a hypermodern opening, where Black deliberately allows White control of the centre with his pawns, with the view to subsequently challenge it with the moves ...e5 or ...c5. Until the mid-1930s, it was generally regarded as highly suspect, but the analysis and play of three strong Soviet players in particular—Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Isaac Boleslavsky, and David Bronstein—helped to make the defence much more respected and popular. It is a dynamic opening, exceptionally complex, and a favourite of former world champions Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, and Mikhail Tal, with prominent grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi, Miguel Najdorf, Efim Geller, John Nunn, Svetozar Gligorić, Wolfgang Uhlmann, and Ilya Smirin having also contributed much to the theory and practice of this opening. In the early 2000s the opening's popularity suffered after Vladimir Kramnik scored excellent results against it, so much so that even Kasparov gave up the opening after relentless losses to Kramnik. However, Kramnik himself won a fine game on the black side of the KID in 2012,[1] and current top players Hikaru Nakamura, Teimour Radjabov, and Ding Liren all play the opening. Blitz chess and rapid chess video. Live blitz and rapid chess. Rapid chess and blitz chess tournaments Blitz chess (also known as speed or fast chess) is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Openings, tactics and strategy are same.