page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 243  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Gilg vs Yates   ½-½ 51 1927 pre-A A60 Benoni Defense 2. Gilg vs Yates   1-0 45 1927 1st olm final A60 Benoni Defense 3. A Siveri vs M Czerniak   0-1 58 1951 Reggio Emilia A60 Benoni Defense 4. Mileika vs Tal 0-1 23 1953 URS A60 Benoni Defense 5. Keres vs Tal   ½-½ 38 1954 Tallinn ,Est-Latvia team m (30.01.54) A60 Benoni Defense 6. Lutikov vs Spassky   ½-½ 43 1955 Ch URS (1/2 final) A60 Benoni Defense 7. I A Horowitz vs Reshevsky   0-1 51 1956 New York (USA) A60 Benoni Defense 8. B J Moore vs R H Newman   0-1 22 1956 Paignton A60 Benoni Defense 9. Chukaev vs T Georgadze   0-1 44 1956 Tbilisi ½f-USSR ch A60 Benoni Defense 10. V Osnos vs Spassky   1-0 51 1956 URS-ch sf A60 Benoni Defense 11. Flad vs T Schuster   ½-½ 68 1957 Bad Neuenahr A60 Benoni Defense 12. Gurgenidze vs J Yuchtman   ½-½ 57 1957 URS-ch sf A60 Benoni Defense 13. Uhlmann vs Vasiukov 0-1 41 1957 Gotha A60 Benoni Defense 14. G Fletzer vs A M Giustolisi   0-1 29 1957 San Benedetto A60 Benoni Defense 15. Petrosian vs E Nievergelt   1-0 26 1958 Munchen A60 Benoni Defense 16. Ivkov vs D Ugrinovic   ½-½ 21 1959 Belgrade A60 Benoni Defense 17. G Pfeiffer vs Polugaevsky   0-1 43 1960 W.Germany-USSR A60 Benoni Defense 18. D Usov vs Vasiukov   0-1 30 1960 Moscow-Leningrad m A60 Benoni Defense 19. Bagirov vs Vasiukov   ½-½ 34 1961 06, Baku A60 Benoni Defense 20. Uhlmann vs B Milic ½-½ 60 1961 Czech Republic A60 Benoni Defense 21. L Liptay vs Portisch   0-1 40 1963 Ungarn A60 Benoni Defense 22. K Darga vs Perez   1-0 34 1963 Capablanca mem A60 Benoni Defense 23. Foguelman vs K Darga ½-½ 38 1964 Amsterdam izt A60 Benoni Defense 24. Rashid Jakhin vs Vasiukov   0-1 41 1964 Moscow-ch A60 Benoni Defense 25. J F Wheeler vs Keene   0-1 47 1965 Surrey Champs A60 Benoni Defense  page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 243    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

May-22-03    levigun: I've taken up an interest in the Benoni opening lately. I've heard that it's a great tactical opening. I've also started a Benoni thematic tournament on gameknot.com (first moves 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5). The tourney is open to anybody who has a gameknot rating between 1600 and 2000. If you'd like to join, send me a message on gameknot (my ID there is levigun), and I'll invite you. It's a 7-player tournament, and there are still 5 seats available. After the tournament games are completed, maybe we can post our observations about the opening here on this page.

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