Karjakin on the KID

Karjakin shows a very interesting transposition in the King’s Indian. He loses a tempo in a subvariation of the a4-line, but in fact by doing so he gains a tempo on the official refutation. Black doesn’t go for the acid test, so Karjakin gets away with it easily.

Here are some examples of the typicals plans from my own practice. As usual I managed to throw away every advantage.