Gambit Guide To The Modern Benoni Pdf
The Gambit Guide To The Modern Benoni Pdf
.Remember, if you have any opinions, ideas or questions, please either make yourself heard at the Forum (the link above on the right) or subscribers can email me at.Modern Benoni: Flick-Knife Attack with.Qh4+by Richard Palliser9.Qh4+ in the critical Taimanov Attack was John Watson's suggestion in his inspirational 2001 Gambit Guide to the Modern Benoni. It's true that this particular line hasn't especially caught on, quite possibly because many still enter the Benoni only via 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 c5.
However, there have been some new developments after the queen check and we'll consider those in the next four games.We reach the critical position after 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5 3 d5 e6 4 Nc3 exd5 5 cxd5 d6 6 e4 g6 7 f4 Bg7 8 Bb5+ Nfd7 9 a4 Qh4+:The queen check is actually quite logical. In the Taimanov Attack White aims to complete his development while restraining any counterplay, and he can then prepare the e5-advance. A crafty way to force that through is with the important manoeuvre Bd2-e1-g3, but that is no longer possible here after 10 g3 (10 Kf1 disrupts White's development, isn't too dangerous and remains pretty rare). Furthermore, the white kingside has been weakened and thus Black's often-problematic light-squared bishop is able to find a good square on g4 or h3.In, French League 2004 and, Las Vegas 2005 we consider 10 g3 Qe7. On e7 Black's queen targets the e-pawn, although Black must be careful as here the queen can be vulnerable to an e4-e5.dxe5, d5-d6 advance.Should Black not be convinced that e7 is the best square for the queen (it's currently slightly the more popular choice) then he can prefer 10.Qd8, when the queen can head to a5 or to c7, and we'll consider that approach in, Las Vegas 2004 and, Molde 2004. In these two games we'll also study 9.a6!?:This is a crafty move order which exploits the fact that an exchange on d7 isn't especially problematic for Black.In conclusion I believe.Qh4+ remains a good counter to the Taimanov Attack.
Much remains to be discovered after it, and Black does gain some pretty thematic Benoni counterplay. I'm not so convinced by the.Qe7 lines, especially when White opts for Bd3, but the retreat to d8 is holding up well. However, Black might as well first play.a6 and only then decide on a queen retreat, although doing so does require one to understand the typical themes and positions arising from both variations.Modern Benoni: 7.a6 8 Qe2!?(John Emms)The line 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 e6 3 c4 c5 4 d5 d6 5 Nc3 exd5 6 cxd5 g6 7 e4 a6 8 Qe2:is fast becoming a bit of a pain in the backside for 7.a6 devotees. White's idea is to exploit Black's lagging development with a very quick e4-e5. To me it just looks too crude to really be the refutation of 7.a6, but no concrete easy way to equality has yet been discovered for Black.It could easily be called the Epishin Variation, because Epishin has played it at least four times (four wins!) and with that type of success rate it is unsurprising that one or two others are having a go.