The Ultimate King's Indian Attack: Improve Your Results by Playing This Powerful Opening System

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Summary: The bible
Review: This is the bible on the King's Indian Attack. If it haad an index of variations it would be six stars. But those of us who use this book with love will make our own index. This book changed my chess life, ending my serach after years of changing openings... Now, it is the King's Indian Attack with 1. Nf3, and the Modern and the King's Indian. There it is!

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Summary: e5 and f5 for black, the end of an era for me and the KIA
Review: What bothers me is they waste paper writing about openings [...] like this one... Meanwhile some openings that demand coverage have none at all to say the very least... The fact this is second book he wrote on an awful opening is comical... Basically he grabbed a bunch of stuff from old book, jacked in some new stuff... Called it a new book etc, how he says powerful opening system?? I dunno if the author knows how to play chess, but KIA is weak system for white... Your probably better off playing 1 g4 or maybe 1 a3... Perhaps 1 Na3 is even better than the KIA... I used to only play KIA a white, I got this book thinking it would help me even more... To be honest I found more help playing KIA drinking than reading this book... The games in the book are nice to look at and wonder why people would play such a bad opening as white... Basically its too easy as black to get equal and attack early on... Many games I found myself under attack very early and fighting to survive... Even when Id setup the KIA, I felt only way to win was to sac a knight... The games tend to be a bit stale and boring... Not to mention bout 55% of the games seem potential for a draw... Im not sure if this guy is a bad author or not to be honest... When your writing about a system thats awful at best its difficult... He has a book on unusual openings, yet he does not give enough coverage to Grob attack... So makes it sorta pointless to name it that to say least... Mostly its just for moves other than the main 3... I dont think this guy is another Schiller or anything that bad... Still there are much better chess books you can waste your money on to be honest... I admit this book might be top 5 in worst books I ever bought... Ill name some other books that are worth buying hopefully I can save 1 soul... Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, Zurich 1953, Tal 1960 World Championship, Tal, My Life and Games, The Mammoth Book of Chess, Modern Chess Secrets Advances Since Nimzo, Botvinnik 100 Selected games, you get the basic idea ;)... Any of those books is money better spent than this waste :)...

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Summary: Putrid System More Like It!
Review: What bothers me is they waste paper writing about openings [...] like this one... Meanwhile some openings that demand coverage have none at all to say the very least... The fact this is second book he wrote on an awful opening is comical... Basically he grabbed a bunch of stuff from old book, jacked in some new stuff... Called it a new book etc, how he says powerful opening system?? I dunno if the author knows how to play chess, but KIA is weak system for white... Your probably better off playing 1 g4 or maybe 1 a3... Perhaps 1 Na3 is even better than the KIA... I used to only play KIA a white, I got this book thinking it would help me even more... To be honest I found more help playing KIA drinking than reading this book... The games in the book are nice to look at and wonder why people would play such a bad opening as white... Basically its too easy as black to get equal and attack early on... Many games I found myself under attack very early and fighting to survive... Even when Id setup the KIA, I felt only way to win was to sac a knight... The games tend to be a bit stale and boring... Not to mention bout 55% of the games seem potential for a draw... Im not sure if this guy is a bad author or not to be honest... When your writing about a system thats awful at best its difficult... He has a book on unusual openings, yet he does not give enough coverage to Grob attack... So makes it sorta pointless to name it that to say least... Mostly its just for moves other than the main 3... I dont think this guy is another Schiller or anything that bad... Still there are much better chess books you can waste your money on to be honest... I admit this book might be top 5 in worst books I ever bought... Ill name some other books that are worth buying hopefully I can save 1 soul... Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, Zurich 1953, Tal 1960 World Championship, Tal, My Life and Games, The Mammoth Book of Chess, Modern Chess Secrets Advances Since Nimzo, Botvinnik 100 Selected games, you get the basic idea ;)... Any of those books is money better spent than this waste :)...