Chess openings: King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov (E99)

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King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov (E99)
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Nf3 O-O 6 Be2 e5
7 O-O Nc6 8 d5 Ne7 9 Ne1 Nd7 10 f3 f5

Number of games in database: 1365
Years covered: 1952 to 2023
Overall record:
   White wins 43.4%
   Black wins 28.5%
   Draws 28.1%

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PRACTITIONERS

With the White Pieces

With the Black Pieces

Dmitry Gurevich		28 games
Viktor Korchnoi		27 games
Pal Kiss		19 games

Mark Hebden		15 games
Varlam Vepkhvishvili		15 games
Teimour Radjabov		10 games

NOTABLE GAMES [what is this?]

White Wins

Black Wins

So vs Ding Liren, 2015

Larsen vs Tal, 1965

Korchnoi vs K Hulak, 1987

Piket vs Kasparov, 1989

Taimanov vs Najdorf, 1953

Korchnoi vs Kasparov, 1991

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Game Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening
1. E German vs K Poschauko 1-0 63 1952 Helsinki Olympiad qual-2 E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

2. B Sandor vs E Gereben 1-0 41 1952 Hungarian Championship E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

3. Taimanov vs Aronin 1-0 40 1952 USSR Championship E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

4. Taimanov vs Bronstein 1-0 41 1952 USSR Championship E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

5. R Teschner vs Gilg 1-0 41 1953 FRG Ch 02nd E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

6. Y Shaposhnikov vs G Borisenko 0-1 41 1953 URS-ch sf Leningrad E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

7. Furman vs Koblents ½-½ 56 1953 URS-ch sf Rostov-on-Don E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

8. Szabo vs Spassky 0-1 29 1953 Bucharest E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

9. Eliskases vs Gligoric 0-1 42 1953 Mar del Plata E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

10. Najdorf vs P Trifunovic ½-½ 41 1953 Mar del Plata E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

11. A Beni vs Euwe 0-1 40 1953 Clare Benedict Cup E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

12. J M Boey vs F Olafsson ½-½ 26 1953 World Junior Championship qual-1 E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

13. H Berliner vs C Henin 1-0 36 1953 54th US Open E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

14. Taimanov vs Najdorf 0-1 43 1953 Zuerich Candidates E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

15. Vidmar vs R G Wade ½-½ 27 1953 Opatija E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

16. G Kluger vs I Solin 1-0 37 1954 Prague / Marianske Lazne Zonal E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

17. E Gereben vs J Szily 0-1 43 1954 Hungarian Championship E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

18. Gligoric vs A Lukic ½-½ 78 1955 Yugoslav Championship E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

19. J Skacel vs J Polak 1-0 45 1955 Czechoslovak Army Championship E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

20. Portisch vs P Dely ½-½ 36 1956 Alekhine Memorial E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

21. T Salo vs R Dworzynski 0-1 47 1956 Moscow Olympiad Final-B E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

22. B Moller vs B De Greiff 1-0 52 1956 Moscow Olympiad Final-B E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

23. L Endzelins vs B Kazic 1-0 40 1957 ICCF Olympiad III preliminary E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

24. Lilienthal vs Y Kots ½-½ 31 1957 Ukrainian Championship E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

25. Benko vs Pachman ½-½ 35 1958 Portoroz Interzonal E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov

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Mar-17-04		ruylopez900: The very last ECO code! It's over!!!! :D

Mar-17-04		waddayaplay: Yes, and the master of creativity Taimanov raps it up :)

Mar-26-04		morphyvsfischer: Don't be fooled by the statistics: they have no place in this game. If Black can find a neat sacrifice on the Kside that often takes a mind like Fischer's or Kasparov's to find, then Black has just as good chances as White. I refuse to let statistics throw off my pet opening!

Apr-07-04		waddayaplay: Why is it called Taimanov-Aronin anyways?

Apr-08-04		Benjamin Lau: Lol ruylopez. Funny thing is that the opening is named after Taimanov, but his first game here is with white, and it's a loss!

Apr-08-04		ughaibu: A lot of Kings Indians are named for the white strategy: Averbach, Petrosian, main line fianchetto, Saemisch... The same thing happens with the Nimzo Indian, likewise there are lots of Ruy Lopez lines named after the black strategy.

Apr-08-04		Benjamin Lau: You're right ughaibu, for some reason it just didn't cross my mind. I still don't understand why the name is after Taimanov though since he lost... Rubinstein's Rubinstein Nimzo against Alekhine also ended 0-1.

Apr-08-04		alfredazzopardi: Yes it is true but Taimnaov is a great and it is an advantage for marketing that openings are named after famous players. At his prime, Taimanov was being seen as a possible World Champion!!

Apr-08-04		acirce: I play this as Black in case anyone wondered.

May-08-04		zorro: A question to all KI players: why is it that black plays 9...a5 after 9.Nd2 and doesn't do likewise after 9. Ne1? Thank you

May-08-04		acirce: Hmm.... one thing - with 9. Nd2 white is planning to get the knight to c4 after b4 and c5. 9...a5 is designed to slow this plan down. Personally I play 9...c5 much more often though - stopping it altogether! After 9. Ne1 Black doesn't need to think of urgent action on the queenside in the same way so he should immediately start play on the kingside with 9...Nd7 or 9...Ne8 and then f5 etc etc. At least this is what I think. Better players than me should fill in or correct me.

May-08-04		waddayaplay: <acirce> sounds very good. I'm guessing black does play a5 later, as b4, at some time, is almost required for white in a position like this, expanding on the q-side.

May-08-04		MoonlitKnight: There shouldn't be any reason not to name the opening after Taimanov even though his first game with it was a loss. The point is that he introduced a new opening idea.

May-09-04		Tecumseh: This line was largely pioneered by Svetozar Gligoric and is also known as the Mar Del Plata variation, which was the venue of the tournament where he first played it winning games against Najdorf and Eliskases as black.

May-09-04		acirce: <waddayaplay> I think you're right.

Oct-13-05		aw1988: Very effective here is Portisch's weapon against the KID: 11. g4!?

Nov-19-05		KingG: Here is a nice game in this variation Korchnoi vs Kasparov, 1991.

Aug-07-06		gambitfan: Below a message I have just posted at Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran (D49) ; it is a comparison between the two lines... Hi everybody ! Let's have a look at COE (Chess Opening Explorer)... With 136 141 games, 1 d4 is the second most common first move behind 1 e4 (193 024 games)... If after playing 1 d4 you play on COE the statistically most common moves, you obtain following series : 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5... This is the line above with a transposition of moves concerning the four first moves... COE's database gives 226 games happening from 1925 until 2006... Since I am (like Bobby Fischer) a 1.e4 player, I concentrate on Black winning games : there are 61 of them (27% of 226). Among Black winning games with great players, there are : Miles vs Kasparov, 1986 Van der Sterren vs Shirov, 1995 Kan vs Botvinnik, 1953 Lilienthal vs Botvinnik, 1941 The position of most common line apparently held by Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran (D49) might in fact be challenged by one of the King's Indian lines... After 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 you have : 2... e6 (33 320 games) 2... g6 (21 228 games) At the second move QGD "beats" the King's Infian but 2...e6 also leads to Queen's Indian, Nimzo Indian,... while 2...g6 is less "split"... After 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 we obtain 4 220 games After 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O (King's Indian most common line) we obtain 6 982 games, which makes KI more common than QGD after the 5th move... 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. Ne1 Nd7 10. Nd3 f5 11. Bd2 gives 262 games, which, after the 11th move for White, makes the King's Indian, Orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov (E99) more common than the Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran (D49) After 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 COE gives 3. Nf3 (18 768 games) as the most common 3rd move before 3. Nc3 (16 405 games)... If 3. Nc3 is played, then 3... Bb4 (13 640 games) is by far more common and more aggressive (25.3% Black winning chances) than 3... d5 (6 044 games, 18.5% Black winning) 3. Nc3 clearly incitates Black to play the Nimzo Indian by far more aggressive... 3. Nc3 is a "sharpening" move... 3. Nf3 avoids the Nimzo-Indian ansd seems to "force" Black to answer 3... d5, which leads to a "quieter" game... 3. Nf3 is a "softening" move leading to a "stable" game...

Jun-12-07		granyid: Just got an information on this..nice observation. I too play E99 if have chance for Black in KID...to bear with almost all my games is a fighting one whether i lost or win.. that was in our club..10 pesos in 10 minutes game bet...

Mar-14-09		WhiteRook48: the last ECO code!

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