Beat the Kid: Three Lines Against the King's Indian

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Paperback: 191 pages
Publisher: Quality Chess Europe AB; First edition (March 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906552150
ISBN-13: 978-1906552152
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches

About the Author

Jan Markos is a young chess grandmaster from Slovakia who has won many international tournaments.

Jan Markos hold in his book’ Beat the KID’ a collection repertoire lines based on the white side of the King’s Indian defence as: The Bayonet Attack (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4); The "Korchnoi" Variation (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1); and the dangerous Krasenkow Variation,also mentioned as the Makogonov 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.h3

Markos understands as no other what he is doing, for instance: after the moves: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7 10.f3 f5 11.Be3 f5 11.Be3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.a4 Ng6 we have reached the old main line.which was very popular in the 1990s.
Markos prefers here the most frequently played move 14.a5,a move that was awarded by no less thaqn Kasparov with a explanation mark. Please see the fifth volume of his My Great Predecessors.
Interesting are the notes from Markos after the interesting 14.Nb5!?

I find this move extremely interesting, but I probably would not use it in an important game,as this continuation is very risky and difficult to play over the board.
Markos plays the King’s Indian with the black pieces and in on of his model games in this book,he preferred after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 c5 a kind of Benoni.On 7.d5 he continued with 7…e6.
Again some words from the young grandmaster: Immediately challenging.White’s central strongpoint is the most natural move,but we are at such an early stage that transpositions to many different openings are still possible.

For example 7…Na6 8.0-0 Nc7 is a way for black to retain flexibity in his central pawns,but black is likely to play e7-e6 at some point.

Black can also play in Benko Gambit style with 7…b5 8.cxb5 a6 9.0-0 axb5 10.Bxb5 which is well outside the scope of a book on the KID.

All I would like to say is that the Benko is justified because of the disruption of white’s development in the theoretical lines,but here white is perfectly placed and should be better.

In Informator 102,there is a game position that is analysed by Markos:
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4 Nh5 10.Re1 f5 11.Ng5 Nf6 12.Bf3 c6 13.Bb2 h6 14.Ne6 Bxe6 15.dxe6 fxe4 16.Nxe4 Nxe4 17.Rxe4 Nf5 18.b5 Rc8 19.Re2 Qe8 20.bxc6 bxc6 21.Qa4 Nh4 22.Bg4 en Marcos writes:Black is simply worse,as he has nothing to offer against white’s bishop pair.

But Golod suggest in the Informator: Rd8 23.Qxa7 Nf5 24.e7 Qxe7 25.Qxe7 Nxe7 26.a4 with a slight advantage.

My Fritz suggests:26… Ra8 27.Be6+ Kh7 28.a5 Rfb8 29.f3 Rxb2 30.Rxb2 e4 31.Rbb1 Bd4+ 32.Kf1 Bxa1 33.Rxa1 exf3 34.gxf3 Ra6 35.Ke2 Kg7 36.f4 Kf6 37.Bh3 d5 and there is not much to worry about.
So as you can see this book is very up to date!
And Markos offers you in this book different styles of play from solidly positional to wildly attacking.

So it is up to you!
Conclusion: One of those fine Quality Chess openings books!