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All benoni formations favour White with regard to space, but Black with regard to levers see p.ix . White, who should strive for a duo with his d-pawn, has difficulty in forming proper levers, while Black constantly faces the danger of being either too early or too late with the exchange of a pawn. The struggle is usually very difficult for both sides. Benoni formations, because of their intricacy and permanent tension, are the heavy guns in present-day tournament chess. Any benoni formation...
Modern Benoni Expressions
1 The pawn couple d5 v. d6 forms the Benoni Ram, in short the RAM. 2 The pawn couple d5 e5 forms White's Main Duo or Head Duo . 3 The pawn couple b5 c5 forms Black's Main Duo or Head Duo . Here Duo means the same as Phalanx. 4 The square e5 is called Stopsquare for White's Benoni Majority, in short WSS White Stop Square . 5 The square b5 is called Stopsquare for Black's Benoni Majority, in short BSS Black Stop Square . 6 The square c4 is called Modern Benoni Square, in short MBS. 7 The diagonal...
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l.d4 Nf6 2 . c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 ed 5.cd d6 6.e4 g6 7.f4 Bg7 8.e5 Generally acknowledged as the best choice. Black avoids the total liquidation of the center. The idea behind White's previous move. Black cannot defend d6 - his ram pawn - in any satisfactory way. Judging, however, from the examples given below Black need not be frightened from the N's sally. It consumes time. Alternatives from dia.no.21 1 9.ed is not dangerous, viz 9 o-o lo.Nf3 22 al 11.Be2 a6 ll Ne8 12.a4 Qd6 13.Ne5 b6 14.o-o...
Info Fhd
l.d4 Nf 6 2. c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 ed h6 9.Bh4 g5 lo.Bg3 Nh5 ll.Nd2 Ng3 15.0-0 Nd7 16.Nc4 Ne5 17.Ne3 Bg6 21 .Be2 g4 22 .b3 Qd7 23.Na3 Rb4 24 Ne3 Qh3 28.Radl Qg3 29.Khl Rf6 3o 33.Resigns 5.cd d6 6.e4 g6 7.N 3 Bg7 8.Bg5 12.hg o-o 13.Be2 f5 14.ef Bf5 18.Bh5 Bh7 19.Qd2 b5 2o.Nb5 Rb8 Nac2 Re4 25.f3 gf 26.gf Re3 27. .Qa5 Qh3 31.Kgl Rg6 32.Ng4 Rg4 Game no. 595 Bilek-Evans Amsterdam Interzonal 1964 l.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 ed 5.ed d6 6.e4 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.Be2 0-0 9.Bg5 h6 lo.Bh4 g5 H.Bg3 Nh5 12.Nd2...
Info Dse
Interesting diversions from dia.no.5ol a lo Nc7 11.f4 h6 12.Bh4 Re8 13.a4 al 13 a6 '. 14.h3 Rb8 15.Bc2'. b5 15 Qd7i, Ivkov, CI III 16.e5 de 17.d6 Na8 18.ab ab 19.fe Re5 2o.Bg3 Re2 21.Qe2 - IVKOV-JANSA, Vrnjaka Banja, 1967. W - 444 . a2 13 g5 1 14.fg Ng4 a22 15.Qd2 Re5 16.h3 hg 17.Bg3 Nh6 18.Be5 Be5 0 b lo h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Bg3 Nh5 13.Qd2 Nc7 503 bl 14.Rael a6 15.a4 Rb8 16.f4 b5 0 JOHNER-BIALAS, Neu-hausen, 1961 . b2 14.a4 a6 15.f4 gf 16.Bf4 Nf4 17.Nf4 Be5 18.Rf3 Ne8 19. Rafl Nf6 2o.h3 Rb8...
Info Ibh
al 12.Nc4 Nb6 13.Ne3 Nh5 14.f4 916 all 14. Be3 15.be Nf6 0 CI II . al2 14. . .Nf6 15.Bf3 Rb8 16.a4 Bd7 17.Rel 17.Bd2 17 Nc8 18 . Nc2 Kh8 19.e5 Ng8 0 JANSSON-POLUGAJEV-SKIJ, 17.01., Havanna, 1966. B - 828 . White went astray in an apparently balanced ending. a2 12 . a4 alt.2e, p.364. b 11 Ne5 12.a4 g5 13.Nc4 Nc4 14.Bc4 h6 15.Ne2 a6 16.Ng3 Nh7 17.Khl b6 0 POPOV-SPASSOV, Varna, 1971. B - 829 . White allowed his K-side to be narrowed down by a tiny black pawn and a lot of trouble was the...
Benoni Tale
Jakob He is son of the rightful and his name shall be Ben-Jamin Son of Joy . Ben-Oni is the name of the new-born. The name Ben-Oni was an allusion to the town On in Egypt, the town where Osiris reigned - Osiris, Lord of the Dead. And to the emotional mind Ben-Oni equalled Son of Death. With apologies to Thomas Mann Josef and his Brothers, 1933, and to the Old Testament . Whenever I felt in a sorrowful mood and wanted to take refuge from melancholy, I sat over a chessboard, for one or two hours...
Discussion Of Benoni Pawn Structures
Few opening systems complexes show a distinct and mature pawn structure within the opening phase. Mature should be taken in the sense of stabilized center. Mostly the pawn formations are immature during the greatest part of the middle game, and in some opening systems the structure is fluctuating even in the endgame. An earmark of MBO is that the center is stabilized within c. 5 moves apart from transpositional sequences from various Indian Lines and Flank Openings , and this stabilization is...
Info Haf
The position on diagram no.127 favours Black, viz 1 19.Na4 Nfd5 2o.Nc5 Bb5 21.Rel Bb2 - ZINSER-EVANS, Venice, 1967. B - lo8 . A mighty clash. 2 19.Nc6 Bc6 2o.dc be 21.Qd8 Rd8 - SOOS-MATULOVIC, Skopje, 1967. B - lo9 . The text is not satisfactory for White. Black s main duo proves too strong. An improvement might be 13.a4 instead of 13.Nc4 , and now Black may transpose to alt.2, note to White s 12th move, by 13...a6 - provided improvements can be found in alt.2a.