Understanding Middlegame Strategy Vol 12: Reversed Colour Systems – King’s Indian/Pirc Defence by Ivan Sokolov
Understanding Middlegame Strategy Vol 12: Reversed Colour Systems – King’s Indian/Pirc Defence by Ivan Sokolov
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Understanding Middlegame Strategy Vol 12: Reversed Colour Systems – King’s Indian/Pirc Defence by Ivan Sokolov
The King’s Indian Defence is one of the most dynamic openings in chess - and Pirc structures share much of the same DNA. With colours reversed (the King’s Indian Attack), these setups can be just as powerful. What may look modest at first often transforms into highly complex middlegames, where timing, precision, and a deep feel for dynamics make all the difference.
Free video sample: Introduction
Free video sample: Misplaced Pieces
In this video course, Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explores the fascinating world of King’s Indian and Pirc structures with colours reversed, often arising from the French or Sicilian.
You’ll discover:
• Why legends like Kramnik, Botvinnik, and Bobby Fischer successfully employed these systems.
• The strategic plans and dynamic ideas White can use to build lasting pressure.
• How Black must respond with accuracy to avoid slipping into passive or worse positions.
Sokolov blends classical games with modern analysis, to show that success here is less about memorising theory and more about mastering recurring patterns and strategies. With these insights, you’ll gain a real edge in practical play - whether you’re seizing the initiative with White or countering the system with Black. A course for practical players, designed to sharpen your middlegame skills, and give you the confidence to thrive in dynamic King’s Indian and Pirc-type battles.
- Fritztrainer App for Windows and Mac
- Available as download or on DVD
- Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
- Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
- Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
- Sample games as a ChessBase database.
- New: many Fritztrainer now also available as stream in the ChessBase video portal!
- Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
- Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
- Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
- Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
- Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
- Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.
- The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
- Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
- Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
- Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
- Replay training
- LiveBook active
- All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
- Assisted Analysis
- Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)
Sample video
Contents
- Introduction
- Analysis
- Early Pawn Pushes: Strategic Risks
- Botvinnik - Pomar
- The Value of a Tempo
- Kramnik - Dragnev
- Misplaced Pieces
- Sevian - Gavrilescu
- Bishop or Pawn? The Power and Pitfalls of the Queenside Majority
- Salem - Abasov
- Strategic Structures and Timing
- Botvinnik - Pachman
- Delayed Central Breaks and Minor‑Piece Re‑deployment
- Mammadov - Sokolov
- Strategic Flexibility
- Ljubojevic - Kasparov
- Counterplay Timing vs. Commitment
- Fischer - Myagmarsuren
- Counterplay Timing & Practical Evaluation: Engines vs. Humans
- Edouard - Lagarde
- Structural Comparison and Strategic Implications
- Fischer - Ivkov
- The Role of Tempi
- Maghsoodloo - Sokolov
- The Knight on e7
- Firouzja - Sokolov
- Practice Positions
- Position 1
- Position 2
- Position 3
- Position 4
- Training Questions
- Exercises with point system
- Exercises in ChessBase format
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