#Fianchetto

9 entries across 1 section of the encyclopedia.

Openings

Opening The Anglo-Indian, KID Formation, examined.
Black answers the English with a King's Indian-style fianchetto — postponing the central decision while preparing the same attacking ideas in a different…
Opening The Catalan Opening, examined.
A queen's-pawn opening whose entire personality lives on one diagonal: g2 to a8, and what White can persuade that bishop to do.
Opening The King's Indian Attack, examined.
A flank system that begins with no central pawn move and ends with a kingside attack: White builds a King's Indian setup with the colours reversed
Opening The Modern Defense, examined.
Black surrenders the centre on move one and asks White to overextend — a hypermodern defence that has survived the engine age by refusing to defend in…
Opening The Grünfeld Defense, examined.
A hypermodern defense that gives White the proud centre, then spends the rest of the opening asking whether it can be held together.
Opening The King's Indian, examined.
A defense that gives White the centre, then asks whether that centre can survive a storm aimed straight at the king.
Opening The Nimzowitsch Variation, examined.
A bishop move against c4, a delay in the centre, and the Queen's Indian at its most exacting.
Opening The Queen's Indian Defense, examined.
A quiet fianchetto against the queen's pawn, built on restraint, light-square pressure, and the refusal to let White's centre become comfortable.
Opening The West Indian Defense, examined.
A four-ply doorway into the modern Indian complex, where Black withholds the centre and makes White choose which argument will be fought.