queen's Indian defense

A cousin of the Queen's Indian Defense, it is calm and solid.

If the opportunity presented itself, he would be happy to face a Queen's Indian Defense or play it himself every day of his tournament life.

His pawn structure is flexible, like that in the Queen's Indian Defense.

One of the most dynamic is to aim for a Queen's Indian Defense style setup.

The Queen's Indian Defense is considered solid, safe, and perhaps somewhat drawish.

Sokolov resorted to the Queen's Indian Defense each time he had Black.

This occurred unexpectedly in a Queen's Indian Defense, Karpov's favorite opening.

From a theoretical point of view, Timman's version of the Queen's Indian Defense was a success.

Topalov started off with an important innovation on the white side of the Queen's Indian Defense, which led the way for his scintillating knight sacrifice.

Queen's Indian Defense.

The move 4 a3 in the Queen's Indian Defense was promulgated by Tigran Petrosian.

Portisch's choice of the old-fashioned 4 e3 against the Queen's Indian Defense befit the occasion, although neither player could have foreseen that.

The system Polgar used against the Queen's Indian Defense is old-fashioned but not innocuous and has lately taken on a renewed popularity.

What began as an English Opening transposed into an old variation of the Queen's Indian Defense after 5 d4 cd 6 ed e6.

Topalov started off with quiet play against Aronian's Queen's Indian Defense, but, suddenly, he sacrificed material when he reached his 18th move.

For Karpov, it was that he and his seconds need to find a method of beefing up his handling of the Queen's Indian Defense.

This would take the game into an area that Benjamin knows better than anyone, so Yermolinsky chose the better-mapped-out Queen's Indian Defense with 4 Nf3.

Against the Queen's Indian Defense, 4 a3 was popularized by Tigran Petrosian and later fine-tuned into a weapon of attack by Kasparov.

In the main line of the Queen's Indian Defense Fianchetto Variation, Black's principal stratagem is to prevent White from achieving a powerful pawn center with e4.

Nimzovich's 4 . . . Ba6 against the classical Queen's Indian Defense aims to wring some concessions out of the opponent by attacking the c4 pawn.

In the Petrosian System against the Queen's Indian Defense, after the Nimzovich-style 5 . . . Ba6, routine play has not succeeded lately.

The Queen's Indian Defense (QID) is an "Indian Defense" chess opening defined by the moves:

Suat Atalik vs Pablo Zarnicki, Bled Olympiad 2002, Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian.

Alexander Moiseenko vs David Navara, World Cup 2011, Queen's Indian Defense After a long struggle, Navara offered a draw in a winning position.

The system of letting a budding Queen's Indian Defense drift into a Nimzoindian Defense with 4 Nc3 Bb4 has been preferred by Seirawan when he has White.