The Averbakh is a solid and respectable variation against the KID. It bears the name of the wellknown Soviet grandmaster theorist and endgame specialist Averbakh photo. Yuri Lvovich Averbakh is the oldest living grandmaster who recently celebrated his 99th birthday in Moscow on 8 February. In the early 1950s Averbakh was one of the first grandmasters to play the variation more than once. He contributed greatly to the development of its theory. Averbakh used the variation several years then chan