The king's Indian was the favorite weapon with the blacks of Fischer then Kasparov. It involves playing the knight on f6, putting the bishop in fianchetto on g7 then a pawn on d6.

Black waits, hidden in the shadows, to counterattack White's center, which is often too wide to be correctly supported. It is worth remembering that these historical rules only allowed a simple pawn move. As often it is the facetious and erudite grand master Xavier Tartakower… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 88% left to discover.