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1.Nf31.e4By playing e4, you can still pursue very similar King's Indian Attack plans, although only against specific openings from Black. In my opinion, it works best against the French Defense, the Sicilian and the Caro Kann. Here is how we can get to our setup: If the opponent plays the French Defence, we can start with 2.d3.e61...c52.Nf3Nc62...d63.c3Nf64.g3Nc65.d3g66.Bg23.g3whether Black plays with Nc6, d6, e6, or g6, the setup can still work. For example,e64.Bg2Nf65.d3d56.Nbd2can even transpose into the previous line.Against the Caro-Kann:1...c62.d3d53.Nd2You can notice that even if Black pursues drastically different pawn structures, for instance - e5.e54.Ngf3Bd65.g3Nf66.Bg2we can still get our solid structure and get a fighting middlegame position.2.d3d53.Nd2Nf64.Ngf3c55.g3We can get to the familiar setup in this way, where similar ideas will still apply.Nc66.Bg21...Nf62.g3d53.Bg2c54.0-0Nc65.d3This is the King's Indian Attack setup from White that we will explore in this course (as well as many possible setups from Black against it).