The King’s Indian According to Tigran Petrosian

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The King’s Indian According to Tigran Petrosian

The King’s Indian According to Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest

thinkers the chess world has ever seen. His handling of complex strategic positions was legendary.

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Now, for the first time, Russian international master Igor Yanvarjov has put together a superb collection of

virtually all the known games played by Petrosian – with both colors – in the King’s Indian Defense and other

closely related Indian structures.

The King’s Indian According

The author’s objective was, first of all, to reveal the richness of Petrosian’s chess world and to follow the strategic

development of the King’s Indian Defense through the prism of Petrosian’s creative work. He does this with the

presentation of almost 300 deeply annotated, complete games.

Tigran Petrosian

Contents include: Preface by Levon Aronian; Foreword by Igor Zaitsev; The Classical Variation; The Samisch

System ; The Fianchetto Variation; The Benoni; Other Systems; Portrait of a Chess Player; Lessons from

Petrosian; The Problem of the Exchange; “Furman’s Bishop”; “Pawns are the soul of chess”; Playing by Analogy;

Maneuvering Battle; Experiments; Realist or Romantic?; The King’s Indian with Colors – and Flanks – Reversed;

Appendix; Index of Tabiyas; ECO/Opening/Tabiya Indexes.

This splendid collection of annotated games will not only have enormous appeal to King’s Indian aficionados, but

to all chessplayers who wish to expand their understanding of the strategic concepts underpinning the royal game as a whole.

Igor Yanvarjov

The bibliography in this book contains nearly 80 entries which will give the reader some idea of the amount of

research that the author has carried out for the  preparation of this book.

The games are all annotated to varying degrees of depth. Some have only light notes, whereas others have very

detailed analytical variations. It is in this area Yanvarjov has done an excellent job. Many of the games contain

quoted historical analysis or comments, whether by Tigran himself or his contemporaries.

the King’s Indian Defence

In addition the author goes into great analytical detail where it makes sense to do so. I also thought that IM

Yanvarjov did an excellent job in getting the right balance between prose and variations to describe the action

taking place within the positions. In some cases a verbal description is given which should be helpful to players of

club level in particular.

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