The King’s Indian Simplified by GM Alex Colovic (MP4)

Understand one of the richest chess openings with a top Chessable author, in just 100 trainable lines!

If you look for the cleanest opening instruction, Grandmaster Alex Colovic is the man to go with. As the first GM on Chessable and one of our most prolific authors, he knows a thing or two about creating 5-star courses.

His crystal clear strategical comments and easy-to-learn opening choices have made him a users’ favorite. That’s why he can break down principled openings in digestible concepts for players of any level and debunk the myth that only GMs can play them.

So, he is the opening coach you need to get through a complex system like the King’s Indian Defense.

The KID is one of Black’s main options to go all-in against 1.d4. With World top players like David Bronstein, Robert Fischer and Garry Kasparov as banner men, it has always been a favorite of fighting players.

It’s also a default option for must-win games. That’s why Alex holds it close to his heart, as it won him two crucial games on his way to his first GM norm.

And now you can learn the basics in just 100 variations!

If you’ve been in Chessable for a while, you’ll know that simplified is a magic word.

You see, that’s the format of The Najdorf Sicilian: Simplified, one of our best-selling courses ever, also by GM Colovic.

The idea of learning -and understanding!- one of the main theoretical battlegrounds in chess history, in over 100 trainable lines, seems too good to be true. But for Alex, that’s a regular day in the office.

How does he do it?

Well, the King’s Indian can be reduced to simple concepts: attack white’s center and control the dark squares. And having them at the core of all plans and ideas in this course, Alex shows you how to handle any variation.

Your repertoire might be concise, but it covers the essential lines, and you’ll learn key KID ideas in all of them:

✅ Classical Variation
✅ Petrosian System
✅ Averbakh Variation
✅ Gligoric Variation
✅ Makagonov System
✅ Saemish Variation
✅ Fianchetto Variation
✅ Four Pawns Attack
✅ Exchange Variation

His recommendations stem from trendy and low-theory lines, but effectively neutralize some of those setups in only four trainable variations!

However, understanding and experience are paramount in the KID. That’s why the course contains a dedicated Strategy and Tactics chapter to hammer in common practical themes:

🔨 Sacrificing an exchange for piece play
🔨 Exchanging the dark-squared bishop when it is a bad piece
🔨 Tactics shots down the e file
🔨 Sacrificing the e pawn to clear the big diagonal
🔨 Swapping the dark-squared bishop for the c3 knight to play against the pawn structure