The history of East Indian defense marked the 20th century.
Handled by Robert Fischer then by Garry Kasparov, this black system revolutionized the concept which underlay that the second player had to wait until the end of the opening to try to take the initiative.
With a configuration that 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.
Before being scientifically explored by the armada of Soviet masters after the Second World War, notably by the
“sorcerer”
David Bronstein and the super-analyst Efim Geller, East Indian had its source in the immemorial saga of chaturanga Indian, the ancestor of our favorite game.
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…
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