Editing King's Indian Defence (section)

==History==
The earliest known use of the term "[[Indian Defence]]" was in 1884. The modern names "King's Indian Defence", "[[King's Indian Attack]]", etc. arose in the mid-twentieth century and are attributed to [[Hans Kmoch]]. Until the mid-1930s, the King's Indian Defence was generally regarded as highly suspect, but the analysis and play of three strong Soviet players in particular—[[Alexander Konstantinopolsky]], [[Isaac Boleslavsky]], and [[David Bronstein]]—helped to make the defence much more respected and popular. It is a dynamic opening, exceptionally complex, and a favourite of former [[world chess championship|world champions]] [[Garry Kasparov]], [[Bobby Fischer]], and [[Mikhail Tal]], with prominent [[International Grandmaster|grandmasters]] (GMs) [[Viktor Korchnoi]], [[Miguel Najdorf]], [[Efim Geller]], [[John Nunn]], [[Svetozar Gligorić]], [[Wolfgang Uhlmann]], and [[Ilya Smirin]] having also contributed much to the theory and practice of this opening. 

In the early 2000s the opening's popularity suffered after [[Vladimir Kramnik]] began scoring excellently against it, so much so that Kasparov gave up the opening after several critical losses to Kramnik. However, Kramnik himself won a game on the black side of the KID in 2012,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8328 |title=Dortmund 2012 – Kramnik shocks Gustafsson with a KID&nbsp;... as black! |publisher=ChessBase.com |date=14 July 2012 |access-date=2 January 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109090435/http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8328 |archive-date=9 November 2012 }}</ref>  and current top players including [[Hikaru Nakamura]], [[Teimour Radjabov]], and [[Ding Liren]] play the opening.