Jan Boekelman

The Modernized King's Indian - Averbakh Variation - Modernized Jan Boekelman New edition

The Averbakh is a solid and respectable variation against the KID. It bears the
name of the well-known 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 changed
course to other variations to fight the KID. Occasionally, he returned to his
old love that by then bore his name