Bologan's King's Indian

Bologan's King's Indian

The King’s Indian is the most uncompromising way to meet 1.d4: Black hands White the centre, then throws everything at the enemy king. It was the weapon of Tal, Fischer and Kasparov, and it remains hugely popular. In this book Victor Bologan builds a complete King’s Indian repertoire for Black — and, characteristically, gives two ways to play in many of the critical lines.

The coverage is genuinely complete. Every serious White system gets its own treatment: the Averbakh, the Sämisch, the Four Pawns Attack, the Classical with all its branches (Bayonet, Petrosian, Gligorić), the positional Fianchetto, and the various Anti-King’s-Indian set-ups including the London and Torre — so whatever White does, you have a prepared, principled answer.

Bologan’s strength as a writer is accessibility: he grounds the reader in the recurring strategic and tactical motifs of each structure before diving into the lines, and he has unearthed a wealth of new ideas and resources along the way. A closing section of solving exercises lets you test your grasp.

A rich, ambitious repertoire for club players and above who want to play the King’s Indian as the fighting, attacking opening it was meant to be.