vs KID: Mar del Plata
Against the King's Indian · E99 · you play White. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O
About the vs KID: Mar del Plata
The Mar del Plata main line with 9.Ne1 is White's principled answer to the Classical KID: play on the queenside with c5, Nd3 and Rc1 while Black attacks with ...f5–f4 and ...g5. White closes the kingside with f3 and Bf2 and wins the race on the other wing.
The vs KID: Mar del Plata (E99) is one of 3 lines of the Against the King's Indian you can train here as White. It starts with 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6. You study the moves first and then play them against the computer; every wrong move gets a short explanation. Knowing the moves is only half the work, so this page also covers the plans for the middlegame, the endgames to aim for and some grandmaster games. Train it regularly as part of your set of lines to play with White: the speed mode and drill show quickly which moves you still forget.