A King's Indian Defense Lesson from Hikaru

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  • Hikaru Gives a King's Indian Defense Lesson
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  • @Phoenix-nh9kt
    @Phoenix-nh9kt 2 роки тому +1880

    Normal chess teachers: The kings indian defence generally consists of a fianchetto and d4.
    Hikaru: I believe it was the October of 1998...

    • @caralho5237
      @caralho5237 2 роки тому +95

      Hikaru having blitz flashbacks

    • @achillesheel12
      @achillesheel12 2 роки тому +50

      Insane memory

    • @joshbrownlow4821
      @joshbrownlow4821 2 роки тому +39

      Man’s a audio book with a face

    • @Kortogan
      @Kortogan 2 роки тому +49

      Hikaru: "I'm gonna say, somewhere around October 25th, 1998"
      ...me struggling to remember what happened last week.

    • @sankethtricksforyou0077
      @sankethtricksforyou0077 Рік тому

      This comment have 686 likes so my comment goes to all of them I want to ask is anyone know why this opening have indian word in its name I hope someone know please reply me

  • @rae5752
    @rae5752 2 роки тому +2112

    sorry Hikaru the kings indian is refuted by 3000 elo chess engines so i’m not going to play it in my 800 elo games

    • @georgedan6270
      @georgedan6270 Рік тому +27

      It's a classic opening

    • @asam239
      @asam239 Рік тому +170

      @@georgedan6270 sarcasm*

    • @alistercaddy1208
      @alistercaddy1208 Рік тому +114

      There's something special about a joke that really works well but only for a tiny demographic of people. I loled.

    • @PashutHerenstein
      @PashutHerenstein Рік тому +2

      😂

    • @Skyscraper21
      @Skyscraper21 Рік тому +35

      Wait what? Kings Indian is too weak for ELO 3000? I might need another one then

  • @elixir4419
    @elixir4419 2 роки тому +772

    Thank you so much Mr Nakamura I am now much more prepared to go up against someone playing the fianchetto kings Indian in 1997 or 1998 than I would have been other wise

    • @davidsandrock7826
      @davidsandrock7826 2 роки тому +44

      In case of accidental time travel, we are all much more prepared.

    • @kobil316SH
      @kobil316SH Рік тому

      Good luck

    • @Gol_D_Rog3r
      @Gol_D_Rog3r Рік тому +1

      Just because I read this I'm gonna play the fianchetto today

    • @juniorking5978
      @juniorking5978 Рік тому

      @@davidsandrock7826 t

  • @rbprem4268
    @rbprem4268 2 роки тому +423

    Hey hikaru I just wanted to say thanks because yesterday the rating list (for New Rated players) was Published... It showed That I got a Rating of 1400 (I KNOW That It Isn't A Lot, But It means so Much to me) All Thanks To Your Videos... It's Lessons Like This That helped me Improve My Chess..

  • @malegros19
    @malegros19 2 роки тому +108

    I remember when Hikaru won with Black using the King's Indian vs Magnus in a must win game.

    • @Puiinguinn
      @Puiinguinn 2 роки тому +7

      Same with Boris that was one of my favorite games, my man sacrificed his queen 6 times (I think it was 6)

    • @mattdiehl1706
      @mattdiehl1706 2 роки тому +3

      No you don’t

    • @905LilO
      @905LilO 2 роки тому +16

      @@mattdiehl1706 Thanks Matt, very cool!

    • @jestfullgremblim8002
      @jestfullgremblim8002 Рік тому +1

      @@905LilO hahaha that was awesome

    • @jestfullgremblim8002
      @jestfullgremblim8002 Рік тому +5

      @@mattdiehl1706 Dementia is not a joke, Matt.

  • @HiHi-bj7gn
    @HiHi-bj7gn 2 роки тому +41

    Please make more lessons like this

  • @anjukumarufcmmaboxing6672
    @anjukumarufcmmaboxing6672 2 роки тому +110

    Hikaru played Kings Indian a lot in SCC this year and won.

    • @vercot7000
      @vercot7000 2 роки тому +9

      he is one of the best KID players out there. So vs. Nakamura 2015 is a fantastic game showing this

    • @tenshi1333
      @tenshi1333 2 роки тому +5

      He also played the Covid Gambit, but lost.
      Edit : Reading your comment, you would mean last year technically because he got disqualified from the SCC in 2021 before 2022.

    • @tommydashed4205
      @tommydashed4205 2 роки тому +2

      @@tenshi1333 Hikaru was dq'd from the CSL not the SCC. He just won the SCC a couple weeks ago for the 4th time in a row.

    • @alternateimmaster2213
      @alternateimmaster2213 2 роки тому +3

      @@tenshi1333 no lol, he won the Speed Chess Championship - what are you on about? 23-8 against Wesley So in the final.

    • @victorgtx5397
      @victorgtx5397 Рік тому

      @@tommydashed4205 and now he won the SCC for the 5th time in a row.

  • @mathwizard296
    @mathwizard296 2 роки тому +5

    This is great seeing more vids like this would be really nice

  • @brandonbarker7817
    @brandonbarker7817 2 роки тому +6

    More videos like these!! Thank you Grand Master Hikaru

  • @acousticmeatus8141
    @acousticmeatus8141 Рік тому +2

    Hikaru, please make more Kings Indian vids, I actually watched Teimoir Radjabov games playing Kings Indian, he's definitely very good but after seeing most of your game plays on Kings Indian, I wanted your lessons soooo much more coz of the way you played, it was just brilliant

  • @emregezici3227
    @emregezici3227 2 роки тому +44

    Thank you pls keep this series coming. I was struggling against fianchetto variation was very helpfull. Much love

    • @AlxM96
      @AlxM96 2 роки тому +1

      Fianchetto* but I agree, these videos are awesome and I hope they keep coming

  • @xSpent
    @xSpent 2 роки тому +2

    I’ve been looking for one of these for weeks now thanks so much!

  • @puppyburner
    @puppyburner 2 роки тому +1

    I have been trying to understand this opening. Thank you for this

  • @ericm1839
    @ericm1839 2 роки тому +57

    Prep back in the day: "if our opponent plays this move, we can trade here and win a pawn, otherwise we'll have to play this move"
    Prep now: "the computer says to sack the queen for optimal piece activity"

  • @ravikumarkothamasu
    @ravikumarkothamasu 2 роки тому +8

    Congratulations Hikaru my favorite player became blitz no1 .

  • @adamleckius2253
    @adamleckius2253 2 роки тому +30

    HOW?! How does he remember the exact sequence of moves from some random game in Trinidad and Tobago (!!) 20 years ago?!

    • @Ashutoshkrrai-gk9cr
      @Ashutoshkrrai-gk9cr 2 роки тому +11

      Thats the reason why these guys are at the very top level from a long time...that's simply due to tremendous concentration and freakin good memory!!

    • @lavenderlilacs
      @lavenderlilacs 2 роки тому +2

      hey that's my homeland!

    • @tengu8560
      @tengu8560 2 роки тому +1

      Bc he looked the game before showing it to the stream 🧠

    • @FlockOfYahweh
      @FlockOfYahweh Рік тому +2

      How?? You give up sex with opposite gender

    • @echelon1014
      @echelon1014 Рік тому +7

      @@FlockOfYahweh so wheres the disadvantage at

  • @lucasmiller2316
    @lucasmiller2316 2 роки тому +2

    love this hikaru

  • @petercook3707
    @petercook3707 Рік тому +2

    In 1998 Hikaru was competing at 10 years old. WILD

  • @mrbeanchess1439
    @mrbeanchess1439 2 роки тому +11

    I love you Hikaru. Checkmate covid with kings indian. ❤love from india 🙂❤

  • @hitlersubhodip725
    @hitlersubhodip725 2 роки тому +10

    Love from India..❤️

  • @-Osiris-
    @-Osiris- 2 роки тому +8

    I love Hikaru doing videos like this, he should do some more

  • @tomasfedor6863
    @tomasfedor6863 2 роки тому +29

    Could you do a video like how to play against certain openings? Like more beginner tutorial, say in this opening with both kings castles short we would usually go for this, in that opening for that… you know what I mean? Just what are the strengths and weaknesses of some common openings and would the game strategies be. I would enjoy anything from 5 minutes to one hour, I’m just curious how u see these. Hm?

    • @oom_boudewijns6920
      @oom_boudewijns6920 2 роки тому +1

      Look up Jozarov's chess channel. He has a big kings indian theory playlist. Also some other openings

    • @tomasfedor6863
      @tomasfedor6863 2 роки тому +3

      @@oom_boudewijns6920 thanks for the tip, havent seen those. Anyway, I just wanted to see Hikaru’s point of view and explanation specifically.

  • @zevelgamer.
    @zevelgamer. 2 роки тому +5

    Good video as always

  • @thokozanisitwayo7696
    @thokozanisitwayo7696 Рік тому +1

    I was 8 months old, that day. Now I am learning that defence!!

  • @PapasFritas-gj3gv
    @PapasFritas-gj3gv 2 роки тому

    That beginning was kinda XD but thanks!
    I love play against king’s Indian but maybe I’ll try play kings Indian.

  • @iamable915
    @iamable915 2 роки тому

    Hikaru the GOAT of KINGS INDIAN

  • @theNfl_Esq
    @theNfl_Esq 2 місяці тому

    Hikaru remembers the date time location and round from ‘98. Smh. Impressive

  • @ashwanth9981
    @ashwanth9981 2 роки тому +63

    Hey I am so happy since I got 1100 Elo points in lichess by playing only kings Indian as black and I played for a month!!

    • @abhinandanbanerjee5471
      @abhinandanbanerjee5471 2 роки тому +9

      Good going bhai

    • @supMgaKaJobless
      @supMgaKaJobless 2 роки тому +4

      Congrats

    • @veni1
      @veni1 2 роки тому +20

      at that level openings don't matter you just need to not hang too many pieces and take the pieces that the opponent is hanging

    • @riikyramirez6547
      @riikyramirez6547 2 роки тому +21

      @@veni1 I mean I'm that level and sometimes that's true but setting up my openings allows for easier play

    • @missachin5054
      @missachin5054 2 роки тому +4

      Where did you learn theory ?

  • @c2w200
    @c2w200 Рік тому

    Damn nice. + Hikaru talks so fast lol

  • @Stripping_Bolts
    @Stripping_Bolts Рік тому

    Hi Hikaru, I just started learning chess and bought GingerGM's book on Black Lion. Do you think this is worth learning or should I focus on other things? I'm currently finishing up Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess, 1st section of Silmans Endgame book, and the Tao of Chess

  • @tanishgupta18
    @tanishgupta18 2 роки тому +1

    breakdown of Boris v hikaru

  • @malcolmwebster7948
    @malcolmwebster7948 2 роки тому

    Hey Hikaru .. hope you're feeling better

  • @mistekejetv8303
    @mistekejetv8303 Рік тому

    You are fast nakamuru !!

  • @sandygaming2420
    @sandygaming2420 Рік тому

    Me watching this 3 days before a tournament : So... I'll just use Wayward Queen

  • @user-ey9ue8oh4l
    @user-ey9ue8oh4l 2 роки тому

    Black bishop at f5 would be a great move ig

  • @alexandergervais7742
    @alexandergervais7742 2 роки тому

    very helpful

  • @rogerbruce2896
    @rogerbruce2896 Рік тому

    I want to go back to the 90's lol. Good video :)

  • @kevinmcdonough9097
    @kevinmcdonough9097 Рік тому

    Me: "Did I eat breakfast this morning?!"
    Grandpa Hikaru: "The year was 1998. It was a beautiful Tuesday evening, as I prepared for the 413th tournament in my career..."

  • @theinternetseekers2436
    @theinternetseekers2436 2 роки тому

    "basic preparation" lol...

  • @shekhar_narwal
    @shekhar_narwal 2 роки тому

    can you do a speedrun king's Indian

  • @amex4453
    @amex4453 Рік тому

    I can confirm that game in 1998 was against me.

  • @TheStartUpScreen
    @TheStartUpScreen Рік тому

    Hunk
    Punk

  • @nickolasscott6417
    @nickolasscott6417 Рік тому

    Me: How do you play the KID?
    Levy: So let's say you're using the London system...

  • @egorgeroev3597
    @egorgeroev3597 2 роки тому

    Next Caro Kann please!!

  • @AppletonPermaculture
    @AppletonPermaculture Рік тому

    This one time at band camp

  • @randomkindness1470
    @randomkindness1470 2 роки тому +15

    i play better and see more moves after watching the speedruns and the matrix bullet vids... but these lessons never really do it for me... im mostly focused on how he can remember specific moves in specific game all the way back to the 90s... that always throws me off

  • @luatala8008
    @luatala8008 Рік тому

    If Chucky was talking he would come up with at least dozen of games and positions from the top of his head instantly. Naka is very vague and brief compared to what you get from Chucky.

  • @proHannuTorrekens
    @proHannuTorrekens 2 роки тому +1

    1997, wasn't Hikaru like 10 years old back then?😂

  • @garygross3093
    @garygross3093 2 роки тому +4

    Hello GM Hikaru. I am a big supporter and I am so excited you are going to be fighting it out in the Candidates Tournament. My constructive criticism is that you go through the lines way too fast and skip over some of the transitions. This makes your absolutely amazing teaching difficult to study.

  • @cvmxo
    @cvmxo 2 роки тому +3

    Hikarus memory is indescribable

  • @griffan456
    @griffan456 2 роки тому

    Why does Hikaru always look like he just finished swallowing or eating or something😂

  • @dennystreet2454
    @dennystreet2454 2 роки тому

    guys can you explain what is the point to trade black bishop vs white knight at 01:51 ?

  • @menotsundanot6164
    @menotsundanot6164 Рік тому

    Too fast 😂😂

  • @luzbellcam1768
    @luzbellcam1768 2 роки тому

    Si a Good teacher

  • @rzrshrk7883
    @rzrshrk7883 5 місяців тому

    The main thing I’ve learned here is that chess has given Hikaru a lot of opportunities to travel.

  • @gdotldot4246
    @gdotldot4246 Рік тому +2

    The kings indian of 1998

  • @Slenderman182
    @Slenderman182 2 роки тому

    "back in the old days" when my sneakers were new

  • @reesh2336
    @reesh2336 2 роки тому

    YOU ARE A G I LOVE U VIDS

  • @mouadalr6924
    @mouadalr6924 2 роки тому

    Hikaru is probably the most dangerous player with the King's Indian

    • @TheFlagMaster.
      @TheFlagMaster. 2 роки тому

      Someone has never heard of Kasparov....

    • @mouadalr6924
      @mouadalr6924 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheFlagMaster.
      Someone doesn't know that Kasparov f*cking retired lol

  • @agentsmith9641
    @agentsmith9641 2 роки тому +1

    Your a genius and i cant wait for you to win the singfield cup again

  • @garygan8804
    @garygan8804 2 роки тому

    hikaru can i request on how you face against the Italian game as black. cause i always lose when i am black and face against the Italian opening.

  • @paularized1
    @paularized1 Рік тому

    35-40 more watches and I’ll have this down.

  • @theoryofmine7473
    @theoryofmine7473 2 роки тому

    watching at half speed, to keep up

  • @ToxicTiger_Tx4
    @ToxicTiger_Tx4 18 днів тому

    im 14 elo, the Sicilian gambet defense mechanism is a better opening than kindian king defense

  • @pzytoo
    @pzytoo 2 роки тому

    Hey Hikaru, howzit? Feelin recovered? Congrats on a performance and the rating thing ;) Anyway not sure in which hotel u got stuck, but if u able to walk around, there are few music jam sessions close in the city center. Maybe keen to join (i guess blues vibe)? Drinks on us!

  • @raunjoseph
    @raunjoseph 2 роки тому +1

    It's pronounced "2 bay go" but glad you visited!!! 💫🤟🙌🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

  • @isaacbarber7156
    @isaacbarber7156 2 роки тому

    I like these videos

  • @bloodfowl4719
    @bloodfowl4719 2 роки тому

    Yoooo trinidad and tobago lezzzz gooooooo 💙

  • @kzmOP
    @kzmOP 2 роки тому

    Love frm india 🇮🇳

  • @adamryba6092
    @adamryba6092 2 роки тому

    Hello, thanks for the tutorial, maybe you could do other slow (more slover :))tutoril with black... For example I like the speed of teaching pokimane. For me it is very helpful I believe that it can help more people. THX for ur content:)

  • @khangdohoangpham9463
    @khangdohoangpham9463 2 роки тому +2

    Nice video

  • @Bigboss-nd8st
    @Bigboss-nd8st 2 роки тому

    More more more

  • @FNKY82
    @FNKY82 2 роки тому

    Hey hikaru you should change the title of "How Hikaru Play King's Indian Defense"

  • @JeremiahCruickshank
    @JeremiahCruickshank Рік тому

    Hi from Trinidad and TobAgo 😄

  • @Raziel2404
    @Raziel2404 2 роки тому +11

    Theory and Computers ruin the experience of Chess.
    The whole idea of Chess is the struggle between minds, but when memorization of move orders, theory and computers come into play, the art, the inspiration of the struggle is gone, and becomes inhuman.

    • @Raziel2404
      @Raziel2404 2 роки тому +1

      @ShoryukenPunch Trust me, I can see why he gave up on Chess, with the pattern recognition, memorization, etc. But the greatest struggle in Chess is seen through taking what one has learnt and pitching your skills and creativity against someone else of equal stature, in terms of Chess.
      And, no, I am not. I am way younger than him.

    • @adamthacker8009
      @adamthacker8009 2 роки тому +6

      @@Raziel2404 he was joking its irrelevant that you're younger 😂 he died a while ago

    • @lucasluka4909
      @lucasluka4909 2 роки тому +6

      Before computer there were books. Memorization was always a part of the game.

    • @adolfhipsteryolocaust3443
      @adolfhipsteryolocaust3443 Рік тому

      Gms playing bongcloud

  • @tylerschannel
    @tylerschannel 2 роки тому +1

    And he lost a lot of games, does that mean its a bad opening ?

    • @ethanl.1699
      @ethanl.1699 2 роки тому +2

      No, Kings Indian is a reputable opening. Openings are only meant to create playable positions, and from the end of the opening is the middle game where anything can happen, such as blunders and mistakes which could lose the game or go into an endgame where the same could happen.

  • @TheDannytaz
    @TheDannytaz 2 роки тому

    Wait, so there is such a thing as a non-fianchetto King's Indian?

    • @Zeldasouls
      @Zeldasouls 2 роки тому

      He’s referring to the fianchetto variation that white chose to go into with g3.

  • @TheMilanista
    @TheMilanista 2 роки тому

    2:13 Isn't a pawn hanging on b7?

    • @darkcloud12345678900
      @darkcloud12345678900 2 роки тому +1

      it goes into a even line where white loses a pawn for a queen trade, so its not really a hanging pawn. since after Qb7, kb6,

  • @nosferatu5500
    @nosferatu5500 2 роки тому

    its more pirc defense

  • @adeokodra6710
    @adeokodra6710 2 роки тому

    Hikaru is a cutie

  • @kelvinchan5514
    @kelvinchan5514 2 роки тому +1

    Volume is too low.

  • @anteb.k.8396
    @anteb.k.8396 Рік тому

    I can't.. xD

  • @papanikoliss5124
    @papanikoliss5124 2 роки тому

    Bruh i cant see the pieces because of the subtitles

  • @BabyMamaMaker
    @BabyMamaMaker 2 роки тому

    Back in the old days - Hikaru Nakamura
    Chess has been around for centuries.

    • @azicker93
      @azicker93 2 роки тому +1

      Engines haven't been tho

  • @scopex6335
    @scopex6335 2 роки тому

    I tried the king indian defense against my mom , it didn't work hikaru why?

  • @oumaima353
    @oumaima353 2 роки тому +5

    Me: lost the track and started day dreaming at about the middle
    Hikaru: so there you guys go
    Me: wakes up... so uhm do I watch it again or do I pretend I get it...

  • @devyadav3273
    @devyadav3273 2 роки тому +1

    Who can better explain Kings Indian defence than the best modern opening player in the world.

  • @alehanedilko2147
    @alehanedilko2147 2 роки тому

    No one likes French defense. No one does tutorials😞

  • @Prymail
    @Prymail 2 роки тому

    Nakahumo

  • @brentonfender2081
    @brentonfender2081 Рік тому

    Dude slow down. We're not SGM 3500 ELO chess supercomputers. lol

  • @tin5048
    @tin5048 2 роки тому

    What chess app allows what his doing with the chessboard (with the arrows, red squares)?

    • @tin5048
      @tin5048 Рік тому

      @@mossjohnson thank you

  • @Ifvcksinglemoms
    @Ifvcksinglemoms Рік тому

    You just weak ma boi 😂

  • @doctor_who1
    @doctor_who1 2 роки тому

    is he still in Poland?

  • @nameno7658
    @nameno7658 2 роки тому

    POG!!!

  • @mdshuvo9342
    @mdshuvo9342 2 роки тому

    How are you??

  • @3-methylindole730
    @3-methylindole730 Рік тому

    Hikaru, you’re the only one who pronounces ‘fianchetto’ correctly.😂👌👌

  • @haveaniceday3128
    @haveaniceday3128 2 роки тому

    I’m just saying that I’d like more of these lessons I’d you can them Hikaru

  • @oldweng
    @oldweng 2 роки тому

    Nice

  • @1andonlykaleb
    @1andonlykaleb 2 роки тому +1

    Man why u posting at 3AM😂😂

    • @lucasmiller2316
      @lucasmiller2316 2 роки тому

      fr

    • @zevelgamer.
      @zevelgamer. 2 роки тому

      For me it’s 11 in the morning

    • @1andonlykaleb
      @1andonlykaleb 2 роки тому

      @@zevelgamer. I believe Hikaru lives in the us so it’s pretty early in the morning for him

    • @ym276
      @ym276 2 роки тому +1

      @@1andonlykaleb He's isolating from covid in Poland at the moment. His editor does all UA-cam work

    • @1andonlykaleb
      @1andonlykaleb 2 роки тому

      @@ym276 yeah i was thinking about his editor but i digress

  • @richardmcquade8669
    @richardmcquade8669 2 роки тому

    Can't he speed this up a bit?