Pavlovic: The modernized King's Indian Defense - Mar del Plata Spielmaterial But even more astounding was

But even more astounding was the number of times a GM or very strong player had failed to find the right method

The reader will not have to memorize many moves

013 Chapter 1 - Early Sidelines

before and during a game

Whenever an interesting endgame appears in a high-level game

Pavlovic: The modernized King's Indian Defense - Mar del Plata Spielmaterial But even more astounding wasThe King's Indian Defense, and the Mar del Plata variation in particular, has played a huge role throughout my entire chess career. I started doing extensive analysis of the ensuing rich positions from a very young age. I believe what lured me to it was that it is an outlier among well established openings in the sense that it gives Black a chance to attack right from an early stage of the game. This rather romantic approach to chess made a deep