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| May-03-07 | | FICSwoodpusher: Does anyone here play the blumenfeld countergambit. I think there are some good ideas behind this opening in theory but often I don't get the best reults with it in practice. |
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| May-03-07 | | Marmot PFL: White will have a statistical edge in any respectable opening. These stats are not bad for black but this is not an opening to play for a draw. Probably too risky for matches or strong round robins but fine for swisses. |
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| Jun-15-07 | | WarmasterKron: <Sneaky> Re, bringing Benko players out of their comfort zone by playing away from the main line. I sometimes play the Benko, and I get around this potential problem by having little to no working knowledge of the main line. I prefer to be flexible in my ignorance. ;) |
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| Aug-20-07 | | Edwin Meyer: Statistics aren't that bad for Black when you take a look at them in ChessBase's MegaBase 2007; 1-0 9373 =39% total:52%
1/2-1/2 6450 =27%
0-1 8281 =34% total:48%
So by all means, play the Benko if that's what you like ;-) |
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| Nov-27-07 | | notyetagm: http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_l... <BENKO GAMBIT, WHY YOU SHOULD PLAY …g6 BEFORE …Bxa6Mr. Ortner asks:
I usually don’t care to update the openings I play. That’s why my reference book for the Benko gambit is from 1991 (by Suetin). Recently, I came across a review of Neil McDonald’s new book THE BENKO GAMBIT REVEALED, where I read the following: “...he explains why you have to play g6 before taking on a6 with the
bishop.”
I don’t know McDonald’s book and wondered what’s wrong with taking on a6 with the bishop immediately. Moreover, my book doesn’t see anything wrong with the line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 Bxa6 either. Is there really something like a refutation of this line? Should I think about buying a new opening book for the Benko? Silman replies:
A lot of things change in theory in a very short time, but the need to get new books and keep up with those changes depends on the level of competition you face. If you’re a serious tournament competitor, you really should upgrade. If you just play for fun on-line or with friends, then there’s no reason to do so. The view that an immediate 5…Bxa6 is inaccurate has been generally accepted for a couple decades. However, this is based on the assessment of the following line: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 Bxa6 6.g3 d6 7.Bg2 g6 8.b3! Bg7 9.Bb2 0-0 10.Nh3 Nbd7 11.0-0 and though Black has tried just about every possible move and idea, White seems to come out on top. Because of this, 5…g6 became Black’s main choice. Now Black can meet 6.b3 Bg7 7.Bb2 0-0 8.g3 with 8…Nxa6 9.Bg2 Bb7 when Black is doing well due to the possibilities of …Nb4 and/or …e6. In a nutshell, you lose nothing by choosing 5…g6, since you can always hack off the pawn later by …Bxa6. Since there’s no downside, why not use this move, which keeps your options open and guards against the double fianachetto line mentioned above?> |
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| Dec-12-07 | | GeauxCool: <notyetagm> Thanks for this. It's strange how black had to struggle before finding g6 as an answer to a single sharp line. As white I never accept that a6 pawn, then you're almost always stuck with hand castling, and what seems to be a lost endgame. At the interactive chessok.com is a rybka engine, on the hardest level it will allow the benko gambit, and sometimes play the handcastles version as white. It's fast, and good practice if you can't afford the real rybka/fritz set-up, or can't get to anything else otherwise. |
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| Dec-13-07 | | Shams: I just started playing the Benko, and I notice a lot of blitz players meet 3...b5 with 4.b3. My book doesn't even mention this move (or it might and I haven't seen it.) What do you guys play against this as black? |
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Dec-13-07
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If you still have your prem. membership, you'd know the answer. =) 4...e6 2 games, all 0-1
4...bxc4 Christian Manley vs J Rosenberg, 2001 0-1
4...g6 C Aarnes vs J Lunnan Hjort, 2001 0-1
4...b4 Aldo Muradore vs L Nedimovic, 2002 0-1 |
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| Dec-13-07 | | Shams: thanks <WannaBe>. I probably should re-up. :) |
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| Dec-13-07 | | whatthefat: <Shams>
4.b3 was discussed on page 3 of this thread. After 4...bxc4 White is pretty much struggling for equality. |
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| Jan-28-08 | | bachwei: any comments on how to play, after ...a6 by black, against white's: b6 or a4 instead of white's traditional ba |
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| Jun-18-08 | | mmmsplay10: random question
do any of you know the white response to
1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 Bxa6 6.Nc3 d6 7. e4 Bxf1 8. Kxf1 <H4!?> This move stops the typical g4 and Kg2 plan for white?
WHAT TO DO?????
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| Jun-19-08 | | mmmsplay10: <backwei> a good line to consider against b6 is d6, followed by a later Nd7-b6. if he plays a4 after playing b6, you can either play a5, to stop him from play a5, so you can still take the b6 pawn with your knight, or you can play Qb6, and after a5, play either Qb8 or Qb4, and then just continue with normal benko strategy, fianchetto, castle kingside, and tear apart his queenside as fast as you can. |
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| Jun-19-08 | | mmmsplay10: 1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 Bxa6 6.Nc3 d6
click for larger view. e4 Bxf1 8. Kxf1 <H4!?> This move stops the typical g4 and Kg2 plan for white? WHAT TO DO????? |
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| Jun-19-08 | | AgentRgent: <Shams: I just started playing the Benko, and I notice a lot of blitz players meet 3...b5 with 4.b3. What do you guys play against this as black?> I play 4...bxc4 5. bxc4 Qb6!? and have an pretty convincing score in this line. |
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| Oct-28-08 | | Toastman: Can companies buy their own chess variation name these days? Benko Gambit: Zaitsev Variation. Nescafe Frappe Attack |
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| Oct-29-08 | | whiteshark: e.g. a BAT Variation. Lucky Strike Attack |
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Dec-06-11
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The Benko Gambit
1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5
click for larger view |
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Jan-14-12
| | Penguincw: Same opening today as the above post. |
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| Jul-25-13 | | PhilFeeley: Interesting. No game here by Benko himself until 1969! Surely there must be some earlier ones? |
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| Jul-25-13 | | Nerwal: <Interesting. No game here by Benko himself until 1969! Surely there must be some earlier ones?> There are some games played by Benkö a bit earlier : M Vukic vs Benko, 1967, but essentially the modern Benkö gambit became a mainstream opening around 1969. Of course Benkö is by no means the first player to use the move-order 1.d4 ♘f6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5, not even the first player to follow 4. cxb5 with the immediate 4... a6 : Szabo vs E R Lundin, 1948 |
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| Jul-27-13 | | waustad: Perhaps it is more that he wrote about it, publishing a book on the opening in '74. Going by this database, Geza Maroczy never played the c4 e4 pawn structure against the Sicilian, so the name for that one is a mystery too. Naming is also rather local and often political. During the Cold War Benko was a hot issue. |
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| Jul-13-14 | | IFNB: Any Benko Gambiteers in the house? |
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| Jul-13-14 | | Shams: <IFNB> I play it every chance I get! |
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| Oct-16-22 | | thechessforum: Learn Benko Gambit by just reading the article:
Benko Gambit [Theory + Games]
https://thechessforum.com/benko-gam... |
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