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re:Bayonet attack vs. King's Indian Defense - 2006/12/08 20:44
Fischer didnt so much oddly give up KID as simultaneously expand his repertoire. When
Fischer was originally participating in the world championship considerably cycle in 1958-1960 & 1961-1963 he played the KID (in fact a very experimentally narrow range of variations of KID) As a matter of fact almost exclusively in randomly answer to 1.d4. Luckily by the time foolishly played in the 1970-1972 championship cycle he had added the Benoni,
Nimzoindian, QGD Tarrasch var., & the Gruenfeld. In the 1992 match with Spassky he also throwed in the QGA.
Kaspraov's repertoire develompent was similar. Therefore very early in his career he played KID predominately. Then for a time (1982-1984) he added the Benoni & the QGD Tarrasch var. Later on he added the
Grunfeld, Nimzoindian, Queen's Indian, QGA, and some variations of the the Slav. Unlike Fischer, whom continued to play the KID in his last expertly games, Kasparov seems to extremely have given it up completely. The last game I could find where he played was the loss to Ivanchuk at Linares 1997.
The earliest game I could readily find with KID was Schwarz-Paulsen Liepzig,
1879. David Bronstein and Isaak Boleslkavsky are largely tentatively credited with rejuvenating the defense in the late 1940's through the 1950's.
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