Pavlovic: The modernized King's Indian Defense - Mar del PlataThe Kings Indian Defense, and the Mar del Plata variation in particular, has played a huge role throughout my entire chess career. I started doing extensive analysis of the ensuing rich positions from a very young age. I believe what lured me to it was that it is an outlier among well established openings in the sense that it gives Black a chance to attack right from an early stage of the game. This rather romantic approach to chess made a deep