The Offbeat: King's Indian - Lesser Known Tries ...

The hall grew quiet. Spectators drifted toward Board 4, expecting the usual marathon of the Mar del Plata variation. They expected a theoretical knife fight that had been mapped out to move thirty by supercomputers.

Victor finally smiled, packing his pen. "The best stories never are." The Offbeat King's Indian - Lesser Known Tries ...

When Arvidsson finally resigned, he didn't shake Victor's hand immediately. He stared at the knight, still sitting stubbornly on the edge of the board. "That's not in the books," Arvidsson muttered. The hall grew quiet

The fluorescent lights of the Reykjavik Open buzzed like a hornet’s nest, but inside Victor’s mind, there was only the rhythmic ticking of the DGT clock. Across from him sat Grandmaster Arvidsson—a man whose preparation was as rigid and cold as a Swedish winter. Victor finally smiled, packing his pen

Arvidsson’s hand, reaching for his knight, hovered in mid-air. He looked at the knight on the rim. It was the "Lesser Known Try," the . It looked ugly. It looked amateur. It was exactly what Victor wanted.

On move five, instead of the standard castle, Victor played .