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Everyman Chess - Carte : opening repertoire: the modern samisch: combating the king s indian and benoni with 6 bg5! - eric montany

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The Samisch variation is a powerful method to counter the popular King s Indian Defence.

The key move is the advance f2-f3, consolidating White s central space advantage and limiting Black s options for counterplay.

In the traditional Samisch White develops the queen s bishop on e3 but in the modern version, as explored in this book, the move Bg5 is preferred.

This creates further problems for Black as the natural King s Indian counter .

e7-e5 allows White a potentially strong pin against the f6-knight, while chasing the bishop with .

h6 and .

g5 creates kingside weaknesses.