A Modern Way to Play the King’s Indian – GM Dejan Bojkov

Overview

The Zürich Interzonal of 1953 and the marvelous annotations of David Bronstein changed our understanding of the King’s Indian Defense.

From a second-class opening, it became one of the most aggressive and dangerous setups for the second player.

Back in those days, players tended to develop their queen’s knight to d7. Later a more central approach came into fashion and the knight found a good square on c6.

Current practice though has revealed that there is one more good square for that piece – the a6 one. From this new outpost, the knight is heading for the centre without obstructing its own bishop.

Bulgarian GM Dejan Bojkov is one of the true supporters of such a development. In this DVD you will find a repertoire based on flexible development whenever possible, and an explanation of some strategic nuances of the King’s Indian Defense.

The author shares with you a lot of novelties that he had prepared throughout his study of the lines.

About the Author:

Born in 1977, Dejan Bojkov is a Bulgarian GM who qualified from the Sports Academy of Sofia as a trainer, a profession which he has followed in various countries.

After his work as a trainer in Kavala (Greece), he worked for ex-World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova as her trainer.

Bojkov has also written more than 30 reports for chessbase.com and chessbase.de. Bojkov was the champion of Bulgaria in 2009 and was a member of the Bulgarian team at the European championships in 2009.

In cooperation with Vladimir Georgiev, he has written “A Course in Chess Tactics” which appeared as a Gambit publication in 2010.

System Requirements:

Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, Windows 7 or 8.1, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation.

Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and internet access for program activation.