Francisco Vallejo Pons vs Vugar Gashimov (2010)

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Francisco Vallejo Pons vs Vugar Gashimov
Linares (2010), Linares ESP, rd 5, Feb-18
Benoni Defense: Classical Variation. General (A70) · 0-1

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Feb-18-10		uscfratingmybyear: I didn't like white's 10.e3. I don't know the theory but if you're going to play d5 and figure black for king side expansion with f5 I think you need to try to slow it with a pawn on e4.

Feb-18-10		Marmot PFL: 3 Benonies played, 2 draws and a win.

Feb-18-10		HeMateMe: This seems to be a very aggressive Benoni, on the black side. I don't usually see such fireworks from black. Is much of this new theory?

Feb-18-10		Eyal: In this line, 10.e3 is the main move (Opening Explorer) and 10.e4 would be no good because of 10...Re8 followed by Nxe4 & f5. At any rate, there's a logic to playing an "e3 Benoni" - by refraining from exposing his e-pawn to early attacks, White wants to obtain more freedom of action for his minor pieces.

Feb-18-10		ajile: <Eyal: In this line, 10.e3 is the main move (Opening Explorer) and 10.e4 would be no good because of 10...Re8 followed by Nxe4 & f5. At any rate, there's a logic to playing an "e3 Benoni" - by refraining from exposing his e-pawn to early attacks, White wants to obtain more freedom of action for his minor pieces.> Thing is Black is playing for a wing attack with b5. The normal way to deal with a wing attack is to strike in the center. I don't understand these e3 lines either. White should be playing for e4 at the first opportunity IMO. If White can successfully get in e4 the subsequent opening of the center should favor him and expose Black's weak squares.

Feb-18-10		muradov: A nice win by Vugar, congrats! His Benoni is becoming hard to crack.

Feb-18-10		Eyal: <Thing is Black is playing for a wing attack with b5. The normal way to deal with a wing attack is to strike in the center. I don't understand these e3 lines either. White should be playing for e4 at the first opportunity IMO. If White can successfully get in e4 the subsequent opening of the center should favor him and expose Black's weak squares.> It's true that e4 is the more usual setup, but this is too general and dogmatic - as I said, e3 has its own logic. The fact is that White got a good position out of the opening here, building a strong Q-side pressure which he somehow let slip between moves 19 and 22. After 19.Nxe5 Bxe5 20.Bxa6, for example, it's doubtful if Black's initiative on the K-side compensates for the pawn; another good alternative might have been 19.a5. (The wing attack with b5 would certainly not have been White's problem in these cases.)

Feb-18-10		Griffard: Huge win for Vugar game-wise and tournament-wise.

Feb-19-10		Albertan: I have analyzed this game in great detail using the World's strongest chess program Deep Rybka 3 on my quad core computer.I allowed the program to analyze the gam for 2 hours. I also used Chessbase 10 and Chessbase Megadatabase 2010 to help me analyze the game. I hope you drop by and play through this analysis.The game is game number 40 in Chessviewer Deluxe, which is at the top of page one of my blog at: http://albertan1956.blogspot.com/

Feb-22-10		werty: Albertan:Thanks for introducing your site.Really quite exceptional.You clearly derive great pleasure from that deep analytical work---saving me the time

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