King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack, Exchange Variation
In the King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack, Exchange Variation, aim to understand the plans and pawn structures, not just memorize the first moves.
The King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack, Exchange Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code E79. It is reached after the moves 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f4 O-O 6. Nf3 c5 7. Be2 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Nc6 9. Be3: 17 moves in, with Black to play.
It belongs to the King's Indian Defense family — one of many ways the line can branch. Understanding the parent system’s plans is the fastest way to play this variation well.
Club players rarely lose the King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack, Exchange Variation in the opening itself. They lose it a few moves later, when the plan behind the moves runs out: that is what reading your own games in this line shows you.