Carlsen, M (2772) – Topalov, V (2813) [E90]
2nd Pearl Spring, Nanjing China (2), 29.09.2009
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0–0 6.h3 Na6 7.Be3 e5 8.d5 c6 9.g4 Nc5 10.Nd2 a5 11.a3 Nfd7 12.Rg1 a4 13.Qc2 Nb6 14.0–0–0 Bd7 15.Kb1 cxd5 16.cxd5 Rc8 17.Bb5 Bxb5 18.Nxb5 Qd7 19.Nc3 Bf6 20.g5 Bd8 21.h4 Na8 22.Bxc5 Rxc5 23.Qxa4 Qc8 24.Rc1 Nb6 25.Qd1 Qh3 26.Qf3 Qd7 27.Qd3 Kg7 28.Rc2 f6 29.gxf6+ Rxf6 30.h5 Rxf2 31.hxg6 h6 32.Nd1 Rxc2 33.Nxf2 Rc8 34.Ng4 Bg5 35.Nf3 Nc4 36.Nxg5 hxg5 37.Ne3 Nxe3 38.Qxe3 Qa4 39.Qxg5 Qxe4+ 40.Ka1 Re8 41.Rc1 1–0
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
As Mig Greengard said earlier this year, no GM should be ‘allowed’ to play the King’s Indian Defence other than Radjabov (at least he plays it regularly enough that he knows precisely what he’s doing). Empirically, the KID is Black’s worse defence, at least amongst the commonly deployed defences at this high level of chess. It makes the worst 10 openings list for Black in a historical database and is the only opening therein played at this kind of level.
Go Carlsparov!
Jack, you are so wrong…
Not according to this 2 million game database:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/stats.htm
Black scores a rather sad 43%, tied for the 9th worst opening by Black, according to these same stats.
Just found an interview with Magnus and Garry from Norwegian TV!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZuRb7A2SBI&NR=1
Kasparov seems to have played the KID quite regularly until 1996 according to chessgames.com
Wow! thanks Jack u da man! Susan based on theses facts i think somethings wrong with the traditional black openings! WHITE WINNIN ALL THE TIME! Nice job by Magasparov though!
@Jack, According to your logic/statistics, you can only wonder why 1.e4 doesn’t get ?! in opening books…
It doesn’t consider 1.d4 d5 as an opening for black, so that’s why it doesn’t show up in the worst openings for black, but it scores worse than the KID.
Kind regards,
PdV
Hes some probably very weak player that claims to be friends with Kasparov. Kasparov never mentions him, on the other hand.
And by the way: Does Kasparov mention many of his friends? Beside really strong chess players? No, I don’t think he does.
Don’t get too excited. Wang Youe will soon proof the domination of China over Carlsen and Russia.
‘No, I don’t think he does’
That’s because Kaspy doesn’t have many friends at all.
All my friends have fide or uscf ratings.
It is so sad to hear that.That you have only chess players for your friends…