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In the previous episode we saw a King's Indian in which Black lost his light-squared bishop and could not get an attack going. In the King's Indian Black is more or less forced to seize the initiative on the kingside because he will almost always lose the battle on the queenside.
This leads to sharp battles. The black-squared bishop is the King's Indian bishop, but Black also needs his light-squared bishop: to get the attack on the kingside going and to succeed with the attack by sacrificing it at the right moment.
However, not all King's Indian devotees believe that Black always needs the light-squared bishop and there are plenty of examples where Black manages to attack without it.
One nice example is a game of the former Women's World Champion Xie Jun against Nana Ioseliani from Georgia. White managed to remove the light-squared bishop from the board by exchanging it against a knight, but Black still was able to unleash a ferocious attack.
In the diagrammed position, the black attacking machine is running at full speed. Do you see how Xie Jun closed the mating net?
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