Am I the only chess player who is frustrated when a King's Indian Defense player opts for Nd7 instead of playing the famous Mar Del Plata Nc6 move? I thought all KI players were attacking fools who would prefer to go down in a blaze of glory rather than acquiesce to a boring endgame even if they were winning that endgame!! Not true as Black can offer Lewis McClary's moron defense(you can read more about this very playable defense at a Houston chess blog maintained by Wilson) and then play Nd7 hoping to occupy c5 and play positionally.
The following game shows how Irish born chess player Eugene Curtin beats Robert Sulman. Curtin displays extraordinary patience and aplomb waiting for Sulman to overextend his King side pawns which fatally exposed his King to the Bc2/Qd3 mating pair.
The game ends when Sulman erroneously captures back with his e5 pawn allowing the diagonal opening space clearance thrust e5 which leaves the mating square h7 indefensible.
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