Robert Ris' Fast and Furious: Giri beats Pragg in exciting King's Indian

by Robert Ris
3/14/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris presents an exciting game from the Prague Chess Festival. Praggnanandhaa decided to take some risks in the Classical Variation of the King's Indian, but faced an excellently prepared Anish Giri, who went on to win the game in style. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
This video course offers you a complete, clear repertoire for Black against the moves 1.Nf3 and 1.c4. The recommended variations are easy to learn and not difficult to remember, but also pose White serious challenges.

I have a closer look at the crucial last-round game of the Prague Masters between Anish Giri and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. With the black pieces, Pragg decided to take some risks with 7...exd4 in the Classical Variation of the King's Indian. It was a very interesting try, as play usually leads to very unbalanced positions, but Giri came very well-prepared and neutralized Black's play convincingly. After some inaccuracies by Pragg, Giri brilliantly took over control in the centre and finished off the game.

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Robert is an International Master who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On the PlayChess server The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous DVDs and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He has started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.
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